Banned WoW Player Offers $1000 for Reactivation

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[citation][nom]traviskane[/nom]Excellent! No mercy for the cheaters!Hey, at least this guy understands what he did was wrong.I've always been paranoid about bans though, on WoW. I wonder if they ever have any false positives in their ban-waves?[/citation]

No, he doesn't. He seems to suggest that his use of a bot to speed through something boring is ok. Plus, he even compounds his ethics violation by offering to bribe(!) for access to his account again.

As for false positives, usually MMORPG companies (at least the ones I know of), are meticulous in their surveiling of people who they think are cheating and keep up to date on what these cheat bot/clients do and what to watch for.

Believe it or not, a lot of games take the "wait and watch" approach to be sure. Most cheaters and botters are tracked so they can get MORE of them when they start banning (the accounts they interact with to offload their gold).

Just in terms of PR, every false positive not fully researched is likely worse than a hundred real cheaters banned.
 

I think in wow most gold farmers get most of there gold hacking account. I have played a few years now and havent seen alot of the stuff you used to see ( super fast node ninjas and what not lol)
 
I used to bot and got banned myself. For me, it was all about leveling up my char so I could go and enjoy life. When I came back I had a more gold and a higher level char.

Sure, some will frown upon this. But I found it to be much easier for me. I liked to do PvP and never botted in BG's. However, leveling is tedious and can be boring, hence the botting.

I am not trying to justify his actions. But I can understand where he is coming from. I used to write xml scripts and had 4 people that I used to bot in this game called Ashersons Call. I sold about $1000 on Ebay. Ah, the good ol days 😉
 
This is completely the wrong way to get unban. You simply write a 1 page proper apology to Blizzard. Ask for forgiveness. State it was a one time thing, never again, it was a mistake, good reasons. You will most likely get unban in 1 week.
 
i hate botters. don't care what they are botting. cheating is cheating game changes/expansions and updates have a way of turning what were once worthless or boring skills into something valueable.
my favorite thing to do is hunt botters in every game, because they pose the best challenge. taking out botters makes everything else look gravy.
i like hunting down and beating cheaters in r/l too. takes skills to beat cheaters proof is in the winning.
 
LOL for anyone that sometimes pays attnetion to the ads on Toms, some of you may have noticed also that there is a WoW gold ad advertised.
 
All cheaters, botters, etc, anything should have their accounts perma-banned. I hope blizzard hits all these pieces of crap with another wave of bans.
 
Instead of taking the money, Blizzard should have the guy do community service or some charitable act (or even donate the $1000 to charity) in return for getting the account back. That way some good will come of this and hopefully the poor sap will learn a lesson.
 
What's a $1000 to a billion dollar company? Does that mean like me finding a penny, and me asking should I really bend down to get it?

I'm glad he's banned, as he was in the wrong. GG.
 
but now that this has become such public knowledge Blizzard is aware of this and will just monitor any accounts reactivated and who did it. When this guys account is reactivated boom not only is the admin arrested for a good number of things the guys account will be perma banned if it isn't already.
 
[citation][nom]cburke82[/nom]I havent raided in CATA yet but I do have 3 85's and at one point in LK had a top 50 warrior on my server all wile avoiding fishing for the very reason that it was boring lol. I just chose not do do that boaring part of the game I do understand his offer with all the time that could be spent. However I have around 40-60 days on my main thats raiding time and all. my Druid I just leveled 1-85 only has just ove 3 days. SO even with say 200 days time If you where to set another account up you could have a very similer account up and running in alot less than 200 days time. You would not have all the acheivements so that would be a major downside. Also the thought or re playing my 3 85's from 1-85 again makes me contemplate suicide lol ( because plaing the same quests and levels again with the same type of toons not because the game it that bad)[/citation]

I feel you!
I levelled hunter,lock,druid,shammy and dk to 80 (and warrior 76). Cata hit and I went 85 with the hunter - and when I did the lock I noticed I had to do the very same quests in the very same order for all chars - so I stopped levelling anything and just did the stuff I could on my main.

As for your starting over - well gear wise, sure you could save a lot of time. But you can't get your onyxia level 60 achievement or stuff like that even if you wanted to.
 
The boring parts are supposed to be done for the "delayed gratification" effect in the psychologically analyzed and maximized addiction the game offers.
Bots make people go out and enjoy life while the automated character often ruins it for those who are out to farm on their own. So, both "less addiction" and "trouble for normal users".
There was a nice concept that I saw once on a private server of WoW, mixing delayed gratification and not making people burden the server (you know how private servers suffer lag from inadequate calculating power) and burden the normal players by bots or even normal boring farming. They gave the user a "vote for our server" chance, once ever 12 hours, and those votes could be converted to items including armatures and weapons, gold and even experience, very slow gain of gold and items in comparison to direct farming, still keeping people addicted and granting delayed gratification, but not taking their life away (well, not that much) and freeing up the server for those who want to play. And still booting bots when detected.
 
[citation][nom]Spanky Deluxe[/nom]Or, you know, he can afford it?? $1000 isn't that much money to a lot of people - certainly not for something that someone's spent so much time on.[/citation]
Obviously 2-3 weeks of pay isn't alot for people including if they have to pay expenses in between...
 
I am glad that Blizz take a hard stance on that sort of thing tho I've been victim to false accusations by them. After comming back for cataclysm I decided to clear out all my characters banks etc and move what I wanted to one character or guild bank. I was promply banned for "suspicious activity". the solution was simple or so I thought, 2 days of trying to access password change and talking with admin got it solved. What was the problem....ironically you need to enter your old password to access your account (which is suspended) to change your password. nice stance Blizz, your still activision bitches tho
 
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