Botter Banstick (i.e. Don't Multi-Bot!)

[Gadzooks]

I can only imagine what stories the GMs and Account Specialists have that they can't tell - with a customer base that big, they have to have a lot of "And we thought we'd heard it all!" stories that would blow our minds.

When I see posts like the one that was from the OP in Vrak's thread, I can only imagine what they deal with on the phone. Angry enough to type out I want a manager NOW!? I feel sorry for his kids.

Seems like a lot more than botting got put out with the trash today. I'm *thrilled*. Next time someone whines about MBers cheating, all we have to do is point out MBers were not part of the Great Cheater Bannination of 2008.

Amazing how many players are talking about all of their multiple accounts being banned...but I thought only us filthy rich players could afford more than one?

The next week will be the usual, every dunce in the game will come by with some idiotic angle they think will make Blizzard change back all the accounts, and change their policies, or postthe usual "It''s all about the money, maaaaaan" nonsense, or they'll try every excuse they can come up with - like always.

Next week, it'll be a new crusade.

Meanwhile, WotLK info leaks out...and the usual "That's not what I wanted, i quit!" posts were drowned out by cheater's tears.


It was a good day.

[Tasty]

Twas indeed Master Zooks.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

To paraphrase my favorite quote in one of those "QQ they banned meh!" threads:

So now half a million cheaters are in a different game? Sounds like a win to me.

[Qlimax]

Just wanted to get a clarification about this: if we use keyclone's command editor to "connect" each of our accounts to the game (launching them) is that one of the programs that may be suspected by warden? (I use the command editor for each account to position regions and account names for when i log in. )

Thanks

[Maz]

I don't think we know at this point. I'm sure we'll find out soon :S

The fact that there are people using Keyclone who haven't been banned suggests its OK with Blizz though.

[zanthor]

I haven't launched wow with the launcher for ... hrm, ever on a regular basis. They patch, it "fixes" my desktop shortcut, I fix that back how I like it.

As for KeyClone, I run KeyClone and use the launched commands consistently, none of my 5 accounts have been banned. A good friend had his wives account given a 72 hour vacation with this banstick wave... she and her 25+ year old son share the account (yes, violation.) and the dipshit kid shared it with a friend (yes, violation) and I know he's bought shitloads of gold in the past (yes, violation) and would wager with the recent dumping by the vendors and price slashing he's purchased some recently...

Yet when asked why he was banned, you know what he said? "I don't know."

[Dorffo]

All of my accounts are just fine, and i've been using a mix of keyclone / AHK / hardware for some time now. I've always been very very careful to make sure nothing I setup could be construed as automation in the slightest.

I get "reported" tells quite often while running SSO quests or PvP grinding since folks think I am gliding (I do tend to make the same runs around the same time every evening) but the GMs that I have encountered have all been super friendly and understanding, and after 2 or 3 check-ins with me the first couple weeks after I hit 70 with my crew I don't even hear from them anymore.

Blizzard has a very very strong anti-bot, anti-automated gameplay stance which I support fully, and as long as you don't creep over that edge I don't believe you have anything to worry about.

[Gadzooks]

All of my accounts are just fine, and i've been using a mix of keyclone / AHK / hardware for some time now. I've always been very very careful to make sure nothing I setup could be construed as automation in the slightest.

I get "reported" tells quite often while running SSO quests or PvP grinding since folks think I am gliding (I do tend to make the same runs around the same time every evening) but the GMs that I have encountered have all been super friendly and understanding, and after 2 or 3 check-ins with me the first couple weeks after I hit 70 with my crew I don't even hear from them anymore.

Blizzard has a very very strong anti-bot, anti-automated gameplay stance which I support fully, and as long as you don't creep over that edge I don't believe you have anything to worry about.

Yup. If you're truly innocent, you have nothing to worry about.

I'm wondering how many of the "innocent" people posting on the epic ban thread used a powerlevel service in the past, or bought their account. Sure, they never, ever botted, but look at the guy Vrak pwned - sounds like he got powerleveled, and got banned for it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed months ago how brazen people were getting talking freely in the forums and in the game how they bought accounts, used powerlevelers, afked for honor, because nobody ever got banned for it.

Oops.

Vengeance, thy name is Blizzard.

Now, there's a post from a mom who's rationalizing botting because she's so busy.

Oh, yeah, a LOT of people were botting. 300K may be a LOW number. There's a reason they went after Glider in court, that guy made a LOT of money selling his software, we're seeing the size of his market today.

[Catamer]

I like to use auctioneer but apparently the auto-scan of the available items in the AH is not permitted, this is data mining. you can still use auctioneers other features.

[Gadzooks]

I like to use auctioneer but apparently the auto-scan of the available items in the AH is not permitted, this is data mining. you can still use auctioneers other features.

The blues are stating that mods and add ons are NOT why people are getting banned, don't worry about Auctioneer.

They are saying there are cases where software that automates mods, like the one that auto-clicks the "buy" button with auctioneer, can lead to bans.

Auctioneer, as it's downloaded, installed, and used, is perfectly fine. The data mining referred to I tend to think is talking about people who data mine the model files and such to find content.