Seeing as how this new patch (supposedly a small one, relatively speaking) has brought down HB for over 24 hours so far, what is to stop Blizzard from releasing trivial patches just to hinder the bot population for a couple days every week. Potentially it could be a very small effort on their behalf, and a conversely difficult effort on behalf of the Buddy staff. I wonder if Blizzard is that diabolical. *removes tin hat*
If you were flying between time zones it could have been a lot longer. I wonder if someone from another timezone could tell us if the bot is fixed in the future yet.
I thought they released the patch with the maintenance window. I haven't played at all today, so I guess I wrongly assumed. But even 8 hours, at the cost of nothing to Blizzard. I wonder if they could implement something that allowed them to dynamically release patches throughout the week.
Possibly, what prevents Blizzard from doing so is the risk of Wow downtime, thereby affecting millions of customers with ongoing subscriptions. Whereas HB customers have no subscriptions, Bossland (who develops HB) doesn't seem to care much if we have to wait a while to play. Consider the 5-6 weeks it took them to get the bot running when MoP came out. Heck, Bossland doesn't even begin development for patches until after a patch is on the live server, i.e. they don't use the PTR to prepare.
They probably could. Players would probably be outraged too. I got the patch at 5 am precisely here in EU. Still got 2 of my chars running tho... for 2 minutes longer
Reading thru the forums is like watching a presentation of the Social Cycle theory. Bot goes live, everyone praises and, at the same time, complains of launch day glitches and bugs. Bot irons out glitches, everyone praises and, at the same time, complains of profiles yet to be updated fully. WoW Patches something, everyone complains of the speed of a release and, at the same time, questions if Blizz will release patches daily to undermine bots and win! Repeat. So Silly
Well that's weird then, I must have been one of those lucky winners to get the HB that worked liked 2 weeks after MoP came out... When I bought the game, I bot the game. See what I did there?
your* And why would I research an errant idea? In fact, I honestly doubt this idea has been mentioned very recently if at all. Not to poke a dead horse or anything.
Oh it very much has. Very much indeed. Pretty much every major patch for WoW results in multiple minor patches. Every minor patch results in the bot being temporarily out of order. The minor patches are usually close between each. Usually by the third patch, someone pops up saying something along the lines of "OMG! Do you think blizz knows about us?! Maybe they're doing this to stop us! Maybe they're going to release a patch every week to stop botting!" And then the troll war starts. CRY NERF! RELEASE THE TROLLS OF WAR!
Nope it has been thought of. When you got nothing better to do at work you leave the forums open AND THEN! I got banned HB HAS BEEN DETECTED OMG! EVERYONE DONT USE IT!. What I was doing afk farming BG's for 6 days straight GG TROLL LOL LOL
Bossland cares VERY much how long HB is down for. What they care about even more is the safety of our accounts and the reputation they have earned as the premier 3rd party bot developer. The complexity of what they have to do on each and every patch to get HB back up again is mind boggling. The fact that the last "ninja" patch had HB down for less than a day speaks for how good they are at this. They will not release an update until they are confident they understand what each patch has changed in the game. Imagine what would happen to business if they release an incomplete product and they get 300,000 accounts banned. They would go out of business overnight. Be patient. The Dev's care...sometimes I think they care more about our WoW accounts than we do. @noamchomsky - This isn't intended as dig at you...I'm borrowing your soapbox
Blizzard doesnt have a bot problem, only players do and thats why blizz gave them a way to report them. In no way blizzard is thinking about stopping bots through a million of mini patches.
Its not just that chtpm, botters pay to play just like everyone else and I guess if you get in shit you will just buy another account and blizzard loves the free money
But... why would you poke a dead horse?... what does the horse have to do with it? LEAVE THE HORSE ALONE!
