Some games like WoW require you to farm and spend many hours trying to find specific items that can be sold. It is tedious and boring, so many gamers use bots to do it. However, for many games, the use of bots is against the terms of use and companies like Blizzard have banned accounts for using bots. Which leads to this latest story.
Blizzard has been in the courts fighting Bossland GmbH, a company behind the Honorbuddy bot that has been used in World of Warcraft, and now according to a recent report, Blizzard has paid a crazy €650,000 in order to see the sales of the bot banned in Germany. Yes, with that kind of money, I would say that they are serious about it.
This comes from a ruling back in 2013 where the courts said that if Blizzard wants the sales of the bot to be banned in Germany, they’d have to pay that amount. That is quite a purchase.
Source Ubergizmo
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