Blizzard has lately taken a strict action against players who were found botting on their realms. The world’s biggest MMO has just gone through a massive ban number of more than 100,000+ bans for a time period of six months. Players were found begging and making tickets to help them regain access to their accounts but Blizzard showed no mercy to such behavior. The bot, namely Honorbuddy, seems to leave character on auto-pilot mode, where it farms honor in battlegrounds chaotically, technically players found specifically using this bot were hit hardest.

Blizzard had to release the following statement over their action:

“Cheating of any form will not be tolerated.”

They further added…

“We’re committed to providing an equal and fair playing field for everyone in World of Warcraft, and will continue to take action against those found in violation of our Terms of Use.”

Bashiok has defined these botting programs as an application that automatically takes control of your character and pushes those keys for you. Under the Blizzard Terms of Use, such actions are considered as violation of rules.

According to World of Warcraft community manager, Bashiok, botting is defined as “automation of any action, not just character movement.”, and if you’re found with a program that’s “pressing keys for you”, you’ve violated the Terms of Use.

Bashiok goes further clearing his statement by replying a player on twitter and highlighting the possible assumptions for getting banned and further making it clear to the players:

Also, Then we saw a GM and player conversation on another realm and this confirms the intensity of the matter that took place and how serious Blizzard was regarding this matter:

Last week we saw news all over the internet regarding Blizzard losing 3 million subscribers over the time span of 3 months and here we have just witnessed another event which may or may not account for players leaving their subscription due to heavy punishment.