The years of fighting against Blizzard are showing results. The well-known manufacturer of the WoW bot Honorbuddy, the Zwickau company Bossland, sounds like they are giving up in the new newsletter. Bossland was known and infamous for bots for Diablo 3, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, WoW, and many other games.
For years, the Zwickau company Bossland has been combative. They create bots for games from Blizzard, such as Honorbuddy (WoW) or Demonbuddy (Diablo). However, the repertoire has shrunk. After ban waves and defeats in court, the bots for Blizzard games have all been discontinued.
A severe setback was perhaps when they retroactively declared the “life-time subscriptions” for their bots as expired and asked users to purchase new subscriptions. They did not take that kindly.
Ban wave after ban wave: German bots in Blizzard’s crosshairs
In addition to legal disputes, more and more ban waves rolled towards Bossland’s bots: Blizzard seemed to be targeting the company’s products:
- As early as 2015, “Stormbuddy”, Bossland’s bot for Heroes of the Storm, had to go.
- Even the “untraceable Overwatch bot” was uncovered by Blizzard back in 2016.
- The last ban wave in November 2017 likely broke the neck of the WoW bot Honorbuddy.
Currently, Bossland only has bots for non-Blizzard games in its repertoire.
Bossland: Known for a combative tone for years – Is it now the end?
Over the years, one could hear from Zwickau that they feel justified and would fight the battle with Blizzard all the way to the last instance. They often accused Blizzard of playing unfair, working with questionable methods.
But by now, it seems that the years of fighting are showing results.
Although according to a ruling here in Germany, they will not have to pay the demanded 8.6 million dollars to Blizzard because the US ruling is not enforceable in Germany. Still, the tone in the latest newsletter sounds contrite.
It seems that Bossland is running out of resources. Without the popular bots, the community is also dwindling. An attempt to establish a legal game on Steam apparently failed.
Bots gone – Community gone
A newsletter was forwarded to the site MassivelyOp. In the email to the fans, the author laments the decline of his company.
Honorbuddy and Demonbuddy are gone. The legal game they had tried to develop has failed.
The newsletter states: “Imagine doing everything to satisfy people’s wishes, and then you fail.” The market for bots has been destroyed by the publishers. Therefore, they wanted to develop their own game to maintain financial independence, but times have changed.
They are now in a situation where they need some product that sells. It was supposed to be the Steam game “Epic Car Factory”, but that did not happen.
Now there are hardly any options left to create something. They urge the community to get the game and write an honest review. With that, Bossland supposedly wants to see how large the fan base still is.
But Bossland believes: The fan base is now gone. When Honorbuddy and Demonbuddy disappeared, they also lost the support of the users.
The newsletter is signed with “Yours Bossland. Have a nice life.” That sounds like a farewell.
The company’s game is reportedly sitting at a Steam score of 10%. You can read the full newsletter at MassivelyOp.
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