Wow Classic Honorbuddy
Daiana Parthemore
The honorbuddy botting community is crying after getting hit by a large ban wave... No other bots have been hit, it looks like only Honorbuddy is being detected currently. Some cheaters apparently also got permanent bans from WoW.
Please note that I am not advertising something any less prestigious. Quickly grinding up r14-gear after dinging to skip tons of pve progression should not be a viable option ever. I'd just like to have a shot at it without throwing my entire life away for 2 months. I know some people think "then it wouldnt be classic anymore" but again: the shitty honor system didn't make classic classic.
Wow ! I had no idea this was a thing. I am sure like other people have said, someone will slap a new name on it and open another shop in another spot and the same (minded) people will try it again. I am not sure why you would pay something to play a game for you, why even have it if you aren't going to play?
As someone who has been botting, I'm happy to answer that: it's because you enjoy certain aspects of the game, but not others.
I can't speak for others, but here's why I was botting - and I'm not looking to "justify" anything to anyone, I'm simply answering your question. Before I do, though, I have to say I haven't botted (or played at all) since WoD, so I don't know what thas been going on in the meantime.
- leveling all my chars would've taken too much time and ... it wasn't worth my time. I've got every class at 100-110 (I started leveling them manually now that I can fly; however, this is NOW; in the beginning of WoD, you couldn't fly). Without flight, leveling is basically riding, getting dazed and dismounted, riding again, getting dazed/dismounted again. Besides, doing the same slow, stupid, unrewarding thing (leveling) over and over just so you can try a class and see if it's fun...is not fun. Of course, you could just pay 50 for each class...but even then you're not going to get it at max level.
- funding my previous addiction (raiding) would've taken too much of my time. I wasn't (and I'm still not) willing to spend that much time on farming random stuff (and some of it couldn't just be "bought"). Even if everything could have been bought, I'd run out of gold in maybe one month of raiding. Despite what you may think, most people don't bot to make hundreds of millions of gold and/or sell it. Not that there's anything wrong with selling gold - since it's apparently fine when blizzard do it (wow token).
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A number of wow nerds get all enraged about people who bot. I get it when it comes to people who bot battlegrounds or whatever - although you should be happy to see bots there, it's an easy win for you. Hell, you can probably solo 10 bots. It's less fun when they're on your team, though, I get that.
Thing is, most of us (people who have been botting at some point) have good reasons to do that. We've got jobs and families. The WoW "community" is not made up of just those typical "red shirt" guys who've got nothing but a basement and their beloved game - it's got "regular" people too. "Regular" people wake up at 8 to get to work at 9 then come back at 6 or 7, which typically means they've got 30 minutes before the raid starts. Then the raid ends at 11 or 12 and they have to get to bed - it's another day tomorrow and they'll have to get to work. When exactly would you "farm" stuff? After midnight? During work hours? On weekends perhaps? Just ignore your family so you can farm pixels? :)
I botted and if I was still raiding (I stopped) I'd do it again. Of course, some people wouldn't like that. Honestly, the botting community doesn't care about others think or like. Fact is, I know people who got burned (or burned out) because of the time sink that wow is - either they had to quit altogether or they ended up with serious family problems.
In what regards "paying", yes, some of us paid for one bot or another. In my case, I paid ... I don't remember, 35-50, something like that. For those 35-50 euros, I got to play wow doing just what I liked (raiding) and not doing anything else required to support raiding (farming gold, consumables, reputation or other stuff). I also got to spend more time with real people (family, friends etc). So from that point of view, it was totally worth it. Besides, I got my money back and then some (when the wow token was introduced, I bought 20 - pretty sure that's more than 35-50 euros)....not to mention that having the maximum number of alts (one of each class) at maximum level also gave me a pretty good (and "legit" way) to make gold (garrisons in wod).
Oh and...it was fun, too. Logging in in the morning and checking how much you've made over night (gold, reputation, artifact power, whatever) was quite good. Being able to switch to another class over night was also good - seeing how Blizzard changes how a class works without asking anyone. I played a survival hunter at some point (back in the days of explosive shot and black arrow and whatever). Then they turn around and completely destroy it. As a normal player, you might go "wtf, what am I supposed to do now". As a botter, you just check which class fits your playstyle and get it "done" by tomorrow. You start your bot on your level 1 char, after properly equipping it (heirlooms, whatever) You wake up and it's level 100 (or 110). That's not too bad.
Speaking of heirlooms, I just upgraded my heirlooms to go to 110. It was about 160k, give or take. What - was I REALLY supposed to farm that gold? Really-really?
Honestly, I'd do it again and I probably will when a newer, better bot is released (honorbuddy was quite limited and often bad). I didn't bot battlegrounds/arenas and I didn't bot in raids, so I don't know how that is - I imagine it's sub-optimal regardless of role (dps, healer, tank).
Yes, of course, it's against the EULA and blahblah and you might get banned. No problem - fire the bot again and you've got a fresh 110 in a couple of days max.
I don't even understand all the rage concerning botting, nor am I even trying to. I guess if you're single and unemployed you might be able to put 8-12-16 hours a day into WoW. It's probably even "cool", since you've got nothing else to do and at least it keeps you from killing yourself. That's fine, but some of us don't want to spend that amount of time on stupid stuff. We enjoy specific aspects of WoW (for some it's raiding...for others it's arenas or whatever)...and we don't enjoy others. So we pay for a bot that "removes" the nasty bits (leveling, farming) and we just play the parts we enjoy - as we should.
I mean, 50 is about what I make in one hour of work. If I were to spend 12 hours leveling a character, hell, that would be about 600 euros, wtf? What about one char of each class? How much is that? No, thanks.
FWIW, I'm also happy Honorbuddy is dead. It was a pretty ^&*!ty bot sold by a greedy bastard whom I came to despise over time. Glad to see him going out of business.
PS Oh...and for the Blizzard fans: a mentally challenged donkey could've detected and banned honorbuddy users within minutes. It didn't even require warden to detect that - all honorbuddy users had certain settings who would've triggered a huge alert. I mean, using click to move, playing in a window, running the 32 bits version and several other characteristics that normal people don't use (not all of them at the same time, anyway). But with warden and honorbuddy running with the same program name and signature, man, it was a matter of seconds.
If you're wondering why we weren't banned, it's because Blizzard was making money off our subs. Activision people don't really care about you so-called "legit" players. The only reason they didn't ban us for a veeeeery long time was that it was more profitable for them to get our subscription money. The only reason for which they banned us was that they realised they weren't making money off us anymore, when we all just bought tokens instead :)
I don't normally bother leaving comments, but eh, weekend's here and perhaps this will offer some clarity.
15 years ago Glider was the king of the bots, after being shutdown in 2010 other bots became popular such as HonorBuddy which has since also been shutdown. In 2017 Blizzard increased the code security in the client which meant that memory reading (where the application memory is spied upon) and Dll injection (inserting code into the application) became much harder. Currently there are no mainstream bots for WOW classic, although bots do still exist in the game these are either Pixel bots or bots using unlocked LUA (the in-game scripting language).
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