So I see there was a huge ban wave for both mmoglider and Innerspace yesterday. Several thousand accounts perished in the blaze. Is it a tradegy? Sure. Unexpected? No.
There's huge risks in botting just as in any form of gambling; you have to be prepared to lose it all.
One of the guys I work with lost his main account with 3 level 70 characters on it. Granted, I told him it was a bonehead move to use your main account to bot, but some people just don't want to pay the extra $15 per month for a second account.
After reading the mmoglider forums I see Merc is hard at work on a fix and suspects the bot to be back up and running on the 22nd. He'll fix it because he is very good at what he does. But it's an ongoing battle between Merc and Blizzard, and in the long run the rebels rarely beat the Empire(TM), but best of luck to him in the long run as he has made one hell of a program.
Keep on botting, the rewards well outweigh the risks if you play smart.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
World of Warcraft Gold Farming | Not As Bad As You Think
Gold farming and gold farmers really seems to be the bane of mmorpg's. I know that in Everquest gold farmers (but much of it was gold dupers) really brought the Everquest economy to its knees. Mudflation is so rampant on all EQ servers that it's to the point where you almost have to buy platinum in order to get anywhere.
One of the main complaints in World of Warcraft is that of cheap gold being sold by various (mostly Chinese) farmers on various websites. As with World of Warcraft Honor Bottingthe gold farmers face a similar backlash from normal players in that they are cheating and ruining the game economy. My argument is that this is not completely true.
world of warcraft cheap gold is not a serious issue
The reason that gold farming and selling is not a serious threat to the World of Warcraft economy is that after a certain point, gold isn't worth hardly anything to the average player. Take a look on Wowhead for any epic item that is ranked higher than 60 and you will see that they are either bind-on-pickup or in some way or the other not sell-able. Blizzard did this on purpose to keep World of Warcraft from plunging into a mudflation supermarket of buy-able gear on the auction house.
What if most items could be re-sold?
There's an Everquest server name Firiona Vie that has a special rule-set when it comes to equipment; almost of all of, regardless of where it's from or where it dropped, can be bought and resold to various characters on the server. This is great if you want to twink out a low level character (the stats do adjust accordingly per level) but it makes worthwhile items extremely expensive.
Imagine, for example, if you could buy a complete Tier 6 armor set on the auction house. The armor would be worth a small fortune since the vast majority of the server population would never be able to go in and get it themselves. Care to take a guess how much a 5-piece Tier 6 set would cost you? 3000 gold? 5000 gold? Who knows, but since you had to scrape to get your epic flying mount I'm willing to bet you would consider buying gold to get that armor. Check Wowhead to see if there's anything close to a full set of epic armor available on the auction house for a level 70. You wont find much, because most level 70 gear is not sellable.
If you look at the pricing history of epic weapons on the auction house you will see that the items are actually cheaper as the levels goes up considering how much more gold you earn once you enter the expansion.This is pretty important considering the game is it's 4th year. In conclusion, this really only allows gold farmers to have a market up until you get your epic mount, after that, the uses for cheap gold really is minimal.
One of the main complaints in World of Warcraft is that of cheap gold being sold by various (mostly Chinese) farmers on various websites. As with World of Warcraft Honor Bottingthe gold farmers face a similar backlash from normal players in that they are cheating and ruining the game economy. My argument is that this is not completely true.
world of warcraft cheap gold is not a serious issue
The reason that gold farming and selling is not a serious threat to the World of Warcraft economy is that after a certain point, gold isn't worth hardly anything to the average player. Take a look on Wowhead for any epic item that is ranked higher than 60 and you will see that they are either bind-on-pickup or in some way or the other not sell-able. Blizzard did this on purpose to keep World of Warcraft from plunging into a mudflation supermarket of buy-able gear on the auction house.
What if most items could be re-sold?
There's an Everquest server name Firiona Vie that has a special rule-set when it comes to equipment; almost of all of, regardless of where it's from or where it dropped, can be bought and resold to various characters on the server. This is great if you want to twink out a low level character (the stats do adjust accordingly per level) but it makes worthwhile items extremely expensive.
Imagine, for example, if you could buy a complete Tier 6 armor set on the auction house. The armor would be worth a small fortune since the vast majority of the server population would never be able to go in and get it themselves. Care to take a guess how much a 5-piece Tier 6 set would cost you? 3000 gold? 5000 gold? Who knows, but since you had to scrape to get your epic flying mount I'm willing to bet you would consider buying gold to get that armor. Check Wowhead to see if there's anything close to a full set of epic armor available on the auction house for a level 70. You wont find much, because most level 70 gear is not sellable.
If you look at the pricing history of epic weapons on the auction house you will see that the items are actually cheaper as the levels goes up considering how much more gold you earn once you enter the expansion.This is pretty important considering the game is it's 4th year. In conclusion, this really only allows gold farmers to have a market up until you get your epic mount, after that, the uses for cheap gold really is minimal.
World of Warcraft Accounts
I've only been botting in World of Warcraft for a couple years, but, I used to play manually and sell accounts on the side. It was not super easy, but it was the only thing I had to do since I was unemployed, in school full time, and didn't feel like doing much else at the time. In total, I've had 12 World of Warcraft accounts that I have created and sold.
So how easy it is to sell accounts? Blizzard makes it pretty easy. The basic formula for selling accounts, once you had a buyer, goes as follows:
That's about all there is to selling your World of Warcraft account. Buying isn't much different, except you need to do the following;
So how easy it is to sell accounts? Blizzard makes it pretty easy. The basic formula for selling accounts, once you had a buyer, goes as follows:
- get the money from the buyer first and there home address via PayPal. Get the payment from a verified PayPal account and send the buyer an email to the address of there PayPal account stating that what they are buying and how much. Make them respond to your email from that email address. This is important if the buyer tries to do a PayPal purchase reversal on you. If they do, you can forward a copy of the email to PayPal for proof of purchase since it will be difficult to prove the purchase was fraud if you have an email 'receipt' from the PayPal email address
- once payment is received, email the user name, password, and Secret Question/Answer (if you have it). The buyer will then have to log into the account and submit a request to change the email address. The seller will receive the email confirming the change of email address, simply forward it to the buyer, or confirm it yourself if they haven't changed the password yet
- once the address and password have been changed and you have the money, ship them something. I like to ship them one of the Warcraft installation CD's, but it doesn't matter. Ship them a receipt if you have to. This will also help with any PayPal reversals since you will have proof of shipping that you can submit to PayPal if you run into trouble. Remember to always cover your butt.
That's about all there is to selling your World of Warcraft account. Buying isn't much different, except you need to do the following;
- after you purchase an account and have access to the character, your best bet would be to spend the money and buy a new account. Create the account using the name of the person of the account you bought (i.e Bob Jackson) and use your personal information for the rest of the required fields.
- once you've created this new account, transfer the character you bought to the new account you just created (assuming the transfer is up).
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
WORLD OF WARCRAFT HONOR BOT CREATOR EARNS $3 MILLION
Blizzard is now claiming that World of Warcraft bot author Michael Donnelly has made $2.8 million by selling his controversial Glider software, according to past motions filed in court and mirrored on GamePolitics.
Donnelly, the author of popular World of Warcraft bot Glider–a downloadable tool that automatically plays the massively multiplayer game for users–was sued by Blizzard in February of 2007.
Both sides have since been locked in a legal battle, with Blizzard claiming that Donnelly knowingly infringed on its copyright, in addition to breaking World of Warcraft’s End User License Agreement.
“Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time,” said Blizzard in a legal statement filed last week.
Donnelly claims that his program does not violate Blizzard’s copyright because it never makes a true copy of the game client.
“Blizzard permits its licensees to load the WoW game client software into RAM to play WoW. As such, BlizzardÂ?s licensees cannot violate BlizzardÂ?s exclusive rights under the Copyright Act to make copies simply by loading a copy of the program into RAM to play WoW,” reads one section of Donnelly’s retort.
The MMO Glider program sells for $25, with an optional $5 subscription available that provides additional functionality.
“We are fans of the game that want to try out a lot of different things,” reads a section of the MMO Glider website.
“Getting a bunch of characters to 70 is a pain. Getting gold to equip them is a pain. Doing big instances, Battlegrounds, raids, and generally socializing in the game is fun. We use the Glider to skip the painful parts and have more fun. Someone suggested we sell it, so..”
Hour upon hour of performing continual actions for no tangible move is rattling the sort of thing you’d expect a mechanism to do, but according to Blizzard, creator of World of Warcraft, it’s for humans and humans only.
The company is now suing one Michael Donnelly for designing and selling a tool that automatically performs many in-game actions, including grinding monsters for resources, while you go away and do something useful with your time. The program is called MMO Glider and Blizzard claims it infringes the company’s copyright and potentially damages the game.
From a player’s perspective, there’s rattling no two ways of looking at it - to allow the use of bots effectively nulls the point in having resources to harvest or any kind of levelling system. It’s unfair on those who are not using bots and who just want to have fun playing the game.
However, the fact that this has reached a legal battle that could end up in a courtroom, and that it’s a game as big as World of Warcraft, could have far achievement consequences for other future MMOs.
Mr Donnelly’s defence rests on the fact that he claims the tool does no infringe copyright, because it copies the game into RAM to avoid detection by anti-cheat software. Blizzard in turn argues that this infringes on the End User License Agreement.
Then of course there’s the fact that the bot maker is making money off the back of Blizzard’s game and is potentially spoiling it for other players. Unfortunately that will probably only earn a side note in the legal wranglings.
Blizzard isn’t exactly winning itself popular favour by stomping down with its large legal boot, but it may well be necessary. And if it gets to court, the outcome of the decision could set a precedent that will majorly affect the design of any future pretender to WoW’s throne.
- world-of-warcaft-honor-bot.com
Donnelly, the author of popular World of Warcraft bot Glider–a downloadable tool that automatically plays the massively multiplayer game for users–was sued by Blizzard in February of 2007.
Both sides have since been locked in a legal battle, with Blizzard claiming that Donnelly knowingly infringed on its copyright, in addition to breaking World of Warcraft’s End User License Agreement.
“Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time,” said Blizzard in a legal statement filed last week.
Donnelly claims that his program does not violate Blizzard’s copyright because it never makes a true copy of the game client.
“Blizzard permits its licensees to load the WoW game client software into RAM to play WoW. As such, BlizzardÂ?s licensees cannot violate BlizzardÂ?s exclusive rights under the Copyright Act to make copies simply by loading a copy of the program into RAM to play WoW,” reads one section of Donnelly’s retort.
The MMO Glider program sells for $25, with an optional $5 subscription available that provides additional functionality.
“We are fans of the game that want to try out a lot of different things,” reads a section of the MMO Glider website.
“Getting a bunch of characters to 70 is a pain. Getting gold to equip them is a pain. Doing big instances, Battlegrounds, raids, and generally socializing in the game is fun. We use the Glider to skip the painful parts and have more fun. Someone suggested we sell it, so..”
Hour upon hour of performing continual actions for no tangible move is rattling the sort of thing you’d expect a mechanism to do, but according to Blizzard, creator of World of Warcraft, it’s for humans and humans only.
The company is now suing one Michael Donnelly for designing and selling a tool that automatically performs many in-game actions, including grinding monsters for resources, while you go away and do something useful with your time. The program is called MMO Glider and Blizzard claims it infringes the company’s copyright and potentially damages the game.
From a player’s perspective, there’s rattling no two ways of looking at it - to allow the use of bots effectively nulls the point in having resources to harvest or any kind of levelling system. It’s unfair on those who are not using bots and who just want to have fun playing the game.
However, the fact that this has reached a legal battle that could end up in a courtroom, and that it’s a game as big as World of Warcraft, could have far achievement consequences for other future MMOs.
Mr Donnelly’s defence rests on the fact that he claims the tool does no infringe copyright, because it copies the game into RAM to avoid detection by anti-cheat software. Blizzard in turn argues that this infringes on the End User License Agreement.
Then of course there’s the fact that the bot maker is making money off the back of Blizzard’s game and is potentially spoiling it for other players. Unfortunately that will probably only earn a side note in the legal wranglings.
Blizzard isn’t exactly winning itself popular favour by stomping down with its large legal boot, but it may well be necessary. And if it gets to court, the outcome of the decision could set a precedent that will majorly affect the design of any future pretender to WoW’s throne.
- world-of-warcaft-honor-bot.com
World of Warcraft Honor Bot
World of Warcraft Honor Bot I haven’t played World of Warcraft in ages, but i do advert when i use to play Battlegrounds(BG’s) that the Horde use to have tons of people just farming for honor. Also advert spotting a couple of people just running the same route over and over from the spawn cave in …
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USING WORLD OF WARCRAFT HONOR BOT TO STEAL HONOR FROM THE BATTLE GROUNDS
Using World of Warcraft Honor Bot to Steal Honor from the Battle Grounds A lot of people are using Honor Bots to steal Honor from the Battle Grounds. It’s a problem, and while most players who join are there to slice and dice the opposing factions, you can often find a few of these bots jumping in the corner or hanging out high …
Sunday, May 4, 2008
World of Warcraft Honor Bot | Warsong Gulch
I got done with a two day WSG bot session this weekend and it was not fun. The problem with botting Warsong Gulch is that the games take forever. Being Alliance on the Nightfall server means we lose 80% of the time, so it's usually 1 mark gained per battle.
My bot path for WSG is pretty simplistic. It starts at the zone-in when you appear in the game, walks to the graveyard, turns around and walks out through the center of the field to the far end (near the enemy fort), then he turns around and walks the path back. He engages in any confrontation along the way as well. Pretty basic
So, after 2 days of that (about 24 hours) I have 34 WSG marks. Blech. But it's still better then playing it manually.
World of Warcraft Honor Bot
My bot path for WSG is pretty simplistic. It starts at the zone-in when you appear in the game, walks to the graveyard, turns around and walks out through the center of the field to the far end (near the enemy fort), then he turns around and walks the path back. He engages in any confrontation along the way as well. Pretty basic
So, after 2 days of that (about 24 hours) I have 34 WSG marks. Blech. But it's still better then playing it manually.
World of Warcraft Honor Bot
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