World of Warcraft is now bot-free – well, at least a bit. A major provider of cheating software from Germany is finally throwing in the towel.
Honorbuddy was one of the most well-known bot software for World of Warcraft. Initially, it was mainly used to farm honor in PvP battlegrounds without actually participating in the events. Over the years, however, this service was expanded further so that other processes, such as farming herbs and ores, were also automated.
The bots caused several problems:
- They took resources from honest players right under their noses.
- They disrupted the economy of a server.
- They provided users with an unfair advantage.
The fight against Honorbuddy and the German provider Bossland lasted several years and repeatedly occupied the courts.
It was an endless back and forth. The developers of Honorbuddy tried to make their software undetectable, and Blizzard, in return, tried to expose the users.
A few days ago, a major ban wave occurred. Numerous users of Honorbuddy were banned. Not just the individual WoW account, but all WoW accounts linked to the Battle.net account.
Bossland stops operation of Honorbuddy
Now Bossland has officially thrown in the towel.
In the provider’s forum, it was announced that Honorbuddy will no longer be developed, after a “more than six-year legal battle that ultimately turned into a battlefield for hackers on Blizzard’s part.”
The reason for this is likely new lines of code in WoW and the Battle.net software that can no longer be easily read. Blizzard’s developers seem to have succeeded in developing a reliable method that automatically recognizes bot users after only a few minutes and then disables the corresponding accounts.
Bossland will also no longer develop bots for Hearthstone and SWTOR.
Thus, at least one of the major bot dealers in World of Warcraft has disappeared from the market.
What do you think about it? Is it good that Bossland is giving up? Or will it only take a few days until someone new steps into their place?
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