Honorbuddy Bans Statement

I think it's their way to let everyone dump there tokens and force people into play Heroes of the Storm whom starts an open beta in a week from now. If Daybreak Games is smart they release their MMO Everquest Next in the following month or starting Beta running.

 

prior to the bans I had suspect spyware looking through all my folders, claiming to search for blizzard games I did not buy into that and quickly killed it, I was kind of suspicious that someone was monitoring my account at this time, since this was very unusual practice also I found that my settings had changed from 32 bit to 64 bit...

 

I am now curious to see if more bans occur since the game is under maintenance, I was having a feeling they might be sweeping more accounts.

 

Guys, so Honorbuddy is closed forever ????

 

nope
give the team time to figure out how it was detected

 

You Guys made the news! Well Yahoo news anyways

https://games.yahoo.com/news/blizzard-drops-ban-hammer-popular-082800842.html

 

What makes me curious is the blanket 6-month suspension and not perma-bans.

 

"When the bodys die and bleed in the streets, buy houses."

 

Just to give you an update on my side of the situation.
After many automated responses by Blizzard they just cancelled the whole ticket without a single reply. Even after mentioning the EU privacy law, nothing has been done about it. I have now re-opened another ticket with reference to previous one and in essence saying that they have no right to ban someone without giving a proper and detailed reason for the ban. The email I received doesn't even mention automation or bots, it's just a generalized email with a notice for a 6 month ban.
I can accept the ban no problem, after all, like everyone here, I knew the consequences of botting before doing it (and I needed a break anyway). What I won't accept is the way Blizzard is treating their paying customers and just doing a blanket ban without any details on it.
Anyone else experiencing this?

 

Everyone is, they aren't going to willingly give out any information on how they detected HB, they may as well send Bosslands a letter outlining how to get around the new detection method.

 

That's not what I meant.
The email I received from blizzard doesn't even mention the use of bots or automation. I pissed at the fact they can't even mention that and tell me when they detected the breach.

 

Just received this reply:
"Hello xxxxx

Thanks for contacting us, For privacy and security reasons, it is our policy never to reveal details regarding account investigations beyond those which are provided in the original notice mail.

But should you wish to raise this as a legal right you would need to contact our legal team by post or email."

Would it be worth going through legal and get some info out of them?

 

They could at least get their information right a toon that goes around collecting honor without engagement mmmkay, so toon attacks no one in pvp...

 

i had very, very very lucky,
i frozen my acc 15 days before because college, and when friends tellme about ban hammer, i rush to m y acc to verify,... and im still up .
but this made me think about lose my 10year acc, and ill stoping use in main acc... i´ll buy a new acc and bot there..

(sorry about, very, bad english)

 

Blizzard should be kissing ass Bossland delicate because they allowed users to play with their routines. And Bossland Blizzard brought money to the amount of banned accounts!

 

arwow i agree i will do the same too i will not stop boting but i'll use another account

 

I received this:
Dear dakota beebe,

The status of your Customer Support ticket #50783613 has changed to “Resolved.”

You can view your ticket details or check its status by clicking the link below:
<http://us.battle.net/support/en/ticket/thread/50783613>

If you can’t click the link above, copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.

This is the latest response from Customer Support:
Hey there,

I understand you're chatting with us today about the recent six month suspension applied to your account.

Taking a look at things, it does look like the correct action was taken here. =/

While I know that it's a bummer that you won't have access to the WoW account until November, you do still have access to all other Blizzard games, and your standing in those has not been changed.

Also keep in mind that normally botting actions like these are full closures, and we're making an exception here to only suspend the accounts, even though the suspension is a big one. For more information about the ban, there should have been an email sent to your address, and then we also have a forum post about the suspensions here: us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17347095985.

I cannot provide specifics in regards to our reviewing processes, or how our in-game records are reviewed. However, I can say we take a very harsh stance toward any exploitation that takes place within World of Warcraft. Specifically, any program that automates gameplay, commonly referred to as a “Bot” or “hack” program is something that can cause this type of suspension.

 

Hell yea, seems like that quy spoke with my words. GZ dude !

 

I.E. "We banned about 5% of the total active accounts and would be stupid if we permanently closed them. We're hoping in 6 months time you come back and spend some more money in the game because we're hemorrhaging subs at an alarming rate atm."

 

5% is too low figure .... And there is information on the Prohibition of accounts in the region - China and Korea?