In response to the victory, Bossland Issued the following statement to their forums, explaining their plans to move operations out of Germany, and rescinding lifetime WoW bot access to a 2 year program:Ĭosts are increasing, development is expensive and was made more expensive since the 12 lawsuits in Germany, where Blizzard tries to abuse anything they can get hands on, by starting multiple lawsuits on yearly basis.Īdding this all up, you can see our income is limited to old one time purchases, and while it was a good business decision back in 2009, it has stopped being viable for us since 2014. This obviously goes against Blizzard’s terms of service for WoW subscriptions, despite the multiple third party companies attempt to profit from such programs. This WoW bot is generally used for such things like large-scale item farming, dungeon running, and Player Vs Player arena rank farming. “Honorbuddy” was a paid program used in World of Warcraft that would play the game without human input. Though of course, this is merely speculation.Reports from german site state that Blizzard has been successful in their lawsuit against World of Warcraft bot creators Bossland GmbH. While it is highly unlikely that this was a “revenge ban” in response to the lawsuit loss as many are claiming, there is the possibility that the lawsuit drew attention to the group’s other projects, allowing Blizzard to effectively track and ban the offenders. Perhaps most interestingly in all of this is that Bossland are the owners of the infamous World of Warcraft bot Honorbuddy which was struck hard in the recent ban-wave. While bizarre cases like this one may raise the age old question of whether or not gold buying is right, that would be beside the point as it is still very much a practice that is against the terms and conditions within Blizzard’s games. Yes, they lost.īlizzard took the case against the Diablo gold selling company Bossland GmbH to Germany, claiming that the website was “anti-competitive” and Bossland received a temporary injunction from the Hamburg Regional Court back in 2013, though the Civil Division of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court seems to disagree as not only did Blizzard lose the more recent case, but have been ordered to pay the entire costs for this and the previous case.
It seems that the big guys don’t always win as Blizzard Entertainment has reportedly lost a lawsuit in which they attempted to place an injunction on a Diablo III gold seller. We’re not done with legal news for the day, folk.
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