Botting

I secretly hope this goes to court because I am interested in what a ruling either way would do for future "botting" in other virtual worlds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Cut: rant about Blizzard's combat against botting) ❋ Nathreee (2008)

All the Supreme Court seems to have done here is interpret that statute exactly as it is written, not imposing criminal liability in a case that did not involve botting, hacking, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whatif a software provider createdbotting softwarethat was useful in playing multiple games, including Star Wars Galaxies, in which scripting and botting were part of the game? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blizzard makes sweeps every 3 months to cancel accounts for botting programs and also gold sellers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The second week, the Supernatural fans started voting multiple times (manually), the One Tree Hill fans continued voting multiple times (manually) and the Veronica Mars fans started botting. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Last year, Blizzard decided to go after Glider the botting program that lets you skip past the grind Read More ❋ Unknown (2008)

Is it up to the game operator to prove that botting is detrimental to game play, not only to ban it in the EUALA rules? ❋ Unknown (2008)

People can whine about inflation or deflation or whatever but wether people are botting or just playing 20 hours a day, nothing will change. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do all this, and your game economy, botting, and all your other bullshit will disappear and all you will have are HAPPY, PAYING customers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I fully agree that botting causes real damages, both in terms of enforcement costs and hard to quantify lost revenue from dissatisfied customers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This continues until the owner reports the account as stolen, or worse, the account is banned by Blizzard for botting (a grievous violation of the terms of service). ❋ Daniel Salo (2008)

Perhaps people will stop botting when a game is produced with enough complexity, design, thought, and depth that no AI would be able to repeatedly advance through. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If I wasnt botting my new character to 70, I would've canceled both my accounts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The prices of random drop goods that can not be easily obtained with botting are astronimic and way out of grasp of any casual player. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If Blizzard catches me, then they lose 2 subs.. is it worth their time to bust my ass, and lose money.. that's their call and loss.. as for WoW economy, firstly, its not real, secondly, I'm only botting to give my REAL LIFE it's time back. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Letting others steal your hard work or ruin the value of the service you provide for others e.g. by allowing botting and the like corrodes the value of what the game developer has worked so hard to protect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think botting is outside of the community consensus, for WoW. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the long run, worlds that do not carry botting as a requirement for people with lives other than the game, will win. ❋ Unknown (2007)