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Bot-Using Accounts Banned | 12/7/2004 5:14:19 PM PST


We have recently verified that certain individuals were using third party "bot" programs to automate their characters in World of Warcraft. A bot is used to play an account non-stop, allowing its user to accumulate money, items and experience without actually requiring the user to be physically present to play the game. The use of bots is a violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use and is absolutely prohibited. Therefore, the accounts identified as having used bots have been banned.

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GG bliz no more macroing fishermen and farmers
keep it up..
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Love it. Do 'roids and cheat in the MLB and they quietly send you to consuling. In the NFL, same thing. In the NHL, you can practically cripple a guy and get a whopping dozen games or so. But Blizzard.....ya cheat and ya get yer fricken head chappped off. Now, that's the message we need to be sending.:thumbsup: Cry in your Kool-Aid, nubs.
 
Damn you guys! All I wanted to do was fish 24/7 and my fishing bot allowed me to do that. If I pay $15/month to fish with a bot, then I should be able to do that without punishment.

***just joking***

How can you become Uber L33t by only finishing anyway?
 
Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Damn you guys! All I wanted to do was fish 24/7 and my fishing bot allowed me to do that. If I pay $15/month to fish with a bot, then I should be able to do that without punishment.

***just joking***

How can you become Uber L33t by only finishing anyway?
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Fishing bots trivialize fishing. You have 2 options:

1) Ban people, remove the exploit, and keep fishing as a meaningful skill
2) Let it continue, allow fishing to trivialize and never reward anything more than a large trout for being an amazing fisher

Personally, I prefer they remove the exploit and keep fishing meaningful.
 
Originally posted by: Ausm
Good ban bots...who the hell would pay all that money to play using a bot?

Ausm
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You'd be suprised how many people play to get to the highest level the quickest. For those, a bot that lets them hunt all night while they are away from the keyboard asleep, is VERY tempting.
 
A bunch of people have left FFXI because of the bots because Sony doesn't really care about them. The most they do is give botters a hard time by giving EVERYONE a hard time. First they nerf'ed fishing, then enemy claiming, then the entire tax economy in Jeuno
 
Originally posted by: Hadsus
Love it. Do 'roids and cheat in the MLB and they quietly send you to consuling. In the NFL, same thing. In the NHL, you can practically cripple a guy and get a whopping dozen games or so. But Blizzard.....ya cheat and ya get yer fricken head chappped off. Now, that's the message we need to be sending.:thumbsup: Cry in your Kool-Aid, nubs.
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Off topic but you don't know much about sports...

 
Originally posted by: Ausm
Good ban bots...who the hell would pay all that money to play using a bot?

Ausm
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so you could be like that level 40 guy i saw a few days ago sitting in iron forge showing off his horse.
 
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Hadsus
Love it. Do 'roids and cheat in the MLB and they quietly send you to consuling. In the NFL, same thing. In the NHL, you can practically cripple a guy and get a whopping dozen games or so. But Blizzard.....ya cheat and ya get yer fricken head chappped off. Now, that's the message we need to be sending.:thumbsup: Cry in your Kool-Aid, nubs.
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Off topic but you don't know much about sports...
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Off topic but you don't know much about anything.
 
Originally posted by: tallest1
A bunch of people have left FFXI because of the bots because Sony doesn't really care about them.
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Wow, people sure love jumping on Sony. First, it's Squaresoft, NOT Sony. And second, they still have one of the highest, if not the highest, subscription rate at over 400k
 
Originally posted by: Hardcore
Originally posted by: tallest1
A bunch of people have left FFXI because of the bots because Sony doesn't really care about them.
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Wow, people sure love jumping on Sony. First, it's Squaresoft, NOT Sony. And second, they still have one of the highest, if not the highest, subscription rate at over 400k
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yes, I meant SquareEnix. Thanks for the correction however I'm pretty sure Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) plays a great part in their customer support
 
Originally posted by: Hadsus
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Hadsus
Love it. Do 'roids and cheat in the MLB and they quietly send you to consuling. In the NFL, same thing. In the NHL, you can practically cripple a guy and get a whopping dozen games or so. But Blizzard.....ya cheat and ya get yer fricken head chappped off. Now, that's the message we need to be sending.:thumbsup: Cry in your Kool-Aid, nubs.
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Off topic but you don't know much about sports...
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Off topic but you don't know much about anything.
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Great comeback noob. Just to correct your innacurate statement... Several NFL players (David Boston and another guy) were recently suspended 4 games - that's 25% of their annual salary - for testing positive for steroids. There's also been several NHL cases where extreme penalties by players (McSorley and Bertuzzi) and have resulted in long suspensions as well as *criminal* charges against them.

I'm not going to make excuses for MLB because it's a total jugf*** mess but the NFL does test for 'roids and the NHL is a violent game but when players break the rules both leagues punish them accordingly.

So again, you still don't know what you're talking about... :roll:
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
saw another lvl 40+ guy riding on his tiger yesterday, wonder how long before he is banned for that bot.
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Me too! I have been busting my ass in that game and I am only level 21 but I restarted my character 3 times for tweaking purposes 😉

Ausm
 
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Hadsus
Originally posted by: Robor
Originally posted by: Hadsus
Love it. Do 'roids and cheat in the MLB and they quietly send you to consuling. In the NFL, same thing. In the NHL, you can practically cripple a guy and get a whopping dozen games or so. But Blizzard.....ya cheat and ya get yer fricken head chappped off. Now, that's the message we need to be sending.:thumbsup: Cry in your Kool-Aid, nubs.
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Off topic but you don't know much about sports...
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Off topic but you don't know much about anything.
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Great comeback noob. Just to correct your innacurate statement... Several NFL players (David Boston and another guy) were recently suspended 4 games - that's 25% of their annual salary - for testing positive for steroids. There's also been several NHL cases where extreme penalties by players (McSorley and Bertuzzi) and have resulted in long suspensions as well as *criminal* charges against them.

I'm not going to make excuses for MLB because it's a total jugf*** mess but the NFL does test for 'roids and the NHL is a violent game but when players break the rules both leagues punish them accordingly.

So again, you still don't know what you're talking about... :roll:
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Read the NFL collective bargaining agreement, nub, and you'll see stage one of drug abuse is a treatment program. Quincy Carter, for example, was in a treatment program that practically *no one* knew about outside the organization (except for a few local sportswriters who kept their mouth shut) and it is still not clear if it was cocaine or grass or how many violations he's had. In MLB, is anything gonna happen to Bonds for what he's done? He's practically admitted to doing steriods but he's gotten away with it with it with no sanctions.....none. As far as the NHL is concerned, McSorley got a suspended sentence (whoopie) and Bertuzzi still hasn't seen a courtroom. I doubt Moore will ever play hockey again. The NHL has long looked the other way on violent acts on the ice....Bertuzzi and McSorely is just the tip of the iceberg and are the most well known cases to the public. For every one of those incidences, there are ten that are dealt with kid gloves. The fact is if I'm caught in the possession of a controlled substance or assault someone with a club, I won't be treated as forgivingly as the multi-millionaires in professional sports. And that's my point in comparing justice done by Blizzard and coddleing professional athletes get. Understand, villiage idiot?
 
Originally posted by: Ausm
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
saw another lvl 40+ guy riding on his tiger yesterday, wonder how long before he is banned for that bot.
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Me too! I have been busting my ass in that game and I am only level 21 but I restarted my character 3 times for tweaking purposes 😉

Ausm
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WTH, I am lvl 18 and I only play maybe an average of 1 hour/day.
 
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