WoW suspends bots, does not ban them

[Zandrae]

I feel like they've been getting more lax, giving people 6 month and 18 month slaps on the wrist. In a perfect world the method above would work, but I don't actually think that it'll actually deter anyone.

Serious botters will still bot.

Casual people who get tired of tedious actions like flipping omen cards or buying out bunches of auctions listed in stacks of ones (I have a btag friend who admits to using a click bot to do this and I can't really blame him). The later, Blizzard has started taking steps to reduce tedium with mass milling. They really need to improve the AH interface or make the remote AH app let you make more than 200 purchases a day as the remote AH interface is arguably better than the normal one.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I feel like they've been getting more lax, giving people 6 month and 18 month slaps on the wrist. In a perfect world the method above would work, but I don't actually think that it'll actually deter anyone.

Well, consider that if they temp ban people long enough to make it to the next expansion, those folks will probably buy that. Whereas permabans mean people would have to buy the battle chest first. They might also buy a whole new game, play it for the duration of the temp ban, then pay *again* to xfer characters back to the old account or the new one when the temp ban is up, and end up buying the expansion possibly twice! They have the historical data to analyze trends in those behaviors; I can't believe they would just arbitrarily decide to "get lax" on this without data to back it up.

[JohnGabriel]

I feel like they've been getting more lax, giving people 6 month and 18 month slaps on the wrist. In a perfect world the method above would work, but I don't actually think that it'll actually deter anyone.

Serious botters will still bot.

Casual people who get tired of tedious actions like flipping omen cards or buying out bunches of auctions listed in stacks of ones (I have a btag friend who admits to using a click bot to do this and I can't really blame him). The later, Blizzard has started taking steps to reduce tedium with mass milling. They really need to improve the AH interface or make the remote AH app let you make more than 200 purchases a day as the remote AH interface is arguably better than the normal one.

Well, consider that if they temp ban people long enough to make it to the next expansion, those folks will probably buy that. Whereas permabans mean people would have to buy the battle chest first. They might also buy a whole new game, play it for the duration of the temp ban, then pay *again* to xfer characters back to the old account or the new one when the temp ban is up, and end up buying the expansion possibly twice! They have the historical data to analyze trends in those behaviors; I can't believe they would just arbitrarily decide to "get lax" on this without data to back it up.

To me a 6 month ban would be like a permaban, I'd just start over. That is just way too long of a time. Already start over at least once a year on a new server with a new team anyways. And I suppose once the 6 months is over I just transfer all the loot to my new account.

Hypothetical situation though as I have never been banned. Except in the blizzard forums does that count?