In the fantasy MMORPG World of Warcraft, the dispute between Blizzard and the bot provider Bossland goes into the next round.
The ban wave affecting supposedly 100,000 users of the bot “Honorbuddy” has prompted the provider of Honorbuddy to temporarily withdraw the most well-known WoW bot for a week. Now they plan to strike back and release a new version by the end of the week. However, they do not guarantee anything for that.
It’s still unclear what exactly happened and how the bot was discovered. One theory suggests Blizzard may have installed “malware” on players’ machines to find out who is using the bot. This is still uncertain. Last time, Blizzard was accused of reacting harshly due to a court case that appeared to favor Bossland.
In this time, we tried to figure out what happened. We must say that we have no idea what really happened and all we have are speculations. We speculate, that at some point, Blizzard used parts of the World of Warcraft client that acted in a hidden manner like malware. Then they scanned everything they could scan on a given computer and flagged the ones they thought were operating against their TOS/EULA. They are fine to install any such malware-type hidden software at any given time according to their End User Agreement.
A number being mentioned is contradicted: 100,000 users of Honorbuddy have not been banned. There were never that many.
