‘World Of Warcraft’ Bot ‘Honorbuddy’ Plans Return

Last week, the Inquisitr reported that Bossland, makers of the popular World of Warcraft bot Honorbuddy, had admitted defeat and were closing up shop, at least as far as World of Warcraft is concerned (as indicated on their website, they make bots for eight different games, primarily from Blizzard).

Now, a new report from GameSpot indicates that this may not, after all, be the case. Only one week after their ignominious defeat, Bossland has announced their plans for a triumphant return to World of Warcraft.

“We will soon release Honorbuddy again – we expect it to be by the end of this week.”

“Its been a week since we closed down the authentication servers for Honorbuddy. In this time, we tried to figure out what happened. We must say that we have no idea what really happened and all we have are speculations.”

For those who haven’t been following the story, Honorbuddy is a “bot” program that essentially plays a game for the player. In the case of World of Warcraft, it’s primarily focused on Player-Versus-Player (PVP) content, automatically farming “honor” and other PVP currencies while the player is away. While it is also capable of numerous other currency and material gathering tasks, bots and AFK (Away-From-Keyboard) players have always been a significant problem in World of Warcraft’s PVP sub-game.

Last week, they decided to do something about that, banning over 100,000 accounts (as reported by PC Gamer) from playing the game for six months for using World of Warcraft bot programs like Honorbuddy – a claim that Bossland now dispute, although they seem not to take into account that theirs is not the only bot program in existence, just the most popular, although their “dispute” seems to be more concerned with vilifying Blizzard for repeatedly taking action against Bossland’s illegal activities, accusing Blizzard of injecting malware into the computers of World of Warcraft players.

“There have been rumours, spread by Blizzard, that over 100,000 [World of Warcraft] Accounts have been banned during the ban wave on 13th May 2015 and that they are most likely all Honorbuddy users. We have to dispute this; there has never been that many active Honorbuddy users. We are still unaware if this was a real detection or some shady malware that was injected into everyones computer for a short period of time.”

It remains to be seen who will triumph in the long run. Bossland recently won against Blizzard in a court of appeal in Germany (according to Nosy Gamer). Blizzard responded by banning World of Warcraft players who were using their bot. This virtual turf war between Blizzard and Bossland looks like it will be continuing indefinitely, with innocent World of Warcraft players caught in the middle.