World of Warcraft bans 100k Accounts

[LongBlade]

Blizzard just dropped the hammer on 100,000 accounts that were using bots.

The bans are reportedly for six months.

The Daily Dot notes that the 'bots', software programs that automate specific processes in a game, are popular in massively multiplayer titles like "World of Warcraft" where players often need to undertake repetitive tasks to access fresh game content.

source: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/05/15/blizzard-hands-out-bans-to-more-than-100000-world-warcraft-players/?intcmp=features

[Nefaro]

There goes half their subscribers!

:P

[Greybriar]

There goes half their subscribers!

:P

No, but World of WarCraft is down to 7.1 million subscribers, according to MMO Champion.

[Nefaro]

There goes half their subscribers!

:P

No, but World of WarCraft is down to 7.1 million subscribers, according to MMO Champion.

Then they obviously didn't boot anywhere near the total amount of botters and spammers.  :P

[DennisS]

I played the hell out of WoW, for many years. I was even in the Beta. It's still a good game, but it took less and less time to get bored with it, on the three occasions that I went back to it.

[Rayfer]

I played the hell out of WoW, for many years. I was even in the Beta. It's still a good game, but it took less and less time to get bored with it, on the three occasions that I went back to it.

My experience exactly (except for the Beta part, I wasn't in it)...I finally just let it go and moved on.