by Drain » Mon May 23, 2016 10:19 pm
It was against the terms of use in several different clauses, not only as cheating/exploiting, but also for using third party software or bots, which most boxers used (stop saying it wasn't, READ the rules if you don't believe us). They already paid for an extra account, so they had no trouble paying extra for software to do it more effectively. Highly advanced bots charged a fee, and it was worth it for their scripting. Only the most basic of boxers alt tabbed. Most used third party software to multi box. By doing so, you can basically turn your boxed characters into bots, which play themselves. You either use the software to mimic your commands across all characters(making everyone do the same actions), or you bot the extra characters, so they follow your first and control themselves. For example, if you bot a boxed healer, you have someone following you around and healing you, without any real player actually controlling the damn thing. It's not difficult at all for a bot to script /follow, watch your health, and cast 1-2 spells to heal you. But even if you alt tabbed to do this, you were violating the terms of use.
But they didn't enforce most of their own rules for years because they liked your money. People were botting it up in the BGs day and night for free honor. It got so bad that Blizzard finally developed a desperate counterproductive flagging system, which could flag you for 0 honor income and kick you out of the match with deserter if you kept the debuff for too long. This only made things worse however. People who had to suffer through the debuff would simply leech/bot "more" matches to make up for the loss. Before this was put in, botters would finish their honor grind quickly, then retire the BGs. Now, with their income slashed, they would simply bot more matches to make up for it (derp). It did nothing at all to help the situation, and actually made things worse. What they needed to do was BAN THE DAMN PLAYERS.
