It seems that as of 13th of May 2015, Honorbuddy became detected by Blizzard, resulting in an entire World of Warcraft ban wave.
Rumors have it that this might be some sort of payback from Blizzard due to losing their lawsuit against Bossland GmbH, as stated in this Honorbuddy topic.
While numbers are unclear as of yet, it seems that a very large percentage of the Honorbuddy users were affected by this current and on-going ban wave, which is also officially confirmed by Lore in this blue forum topic.
For a while now, it appears that Blizzard went in a different direction with their ban hammer against the usage of 3rd party software, handing everyone 6-month suspensions, rather than permanent bans, as they used to in most cases. Wonder what would have happened if the PQR ban wave would have taken place nowadays, instead of back when permanent bans were fashionable.
According to Bossland, the owner of Honorbuddy, this is the first software detection in the bot’s history, and as a result, many veteran accounts were banned, ranging anywhere from new ones to 10 year old accounts. As a result of this ban wave, Bossland has closed the Honorbuddy authentication for the time being and will inform the customers on their forum whenever they have more details.
While we don’t really have accurate numbers currently, it seems, however, that most of the other bots and/or 3rd party software weren’t affected by this current World of Warcraft ban wave, however, as always, we don’t encourage anyone to use them.
There is an on-going poll on the Honorbuddy forum in regards to the number and types of the bans applied, which currently looks like this:
If you’d like to see how the ban confirmation e-mail looks like, here’s an example:
Greetings,
Account Name: ACCOUNT NAME
Account Action: 6-Month Suspension
Offense: Exploitation of game mechanics
Recent activity on this account has shown characters exploiting functionality to the detriment of the game environment or the intended player experience.
The account holder is responsible for all activity on the account. We issue suspensions and closures to protect our players and our service in accordance with our Terms of Use: blizzard.com/company/about/termsofuse.html
Exploitive gains such as items or currency may have been removed as part of this action. Further inappropriate behavior may result in additional penalties, including permanent closure. For dispute of this action and further information on exploitative activity, please review our appeal process: battle.net/support/article/6741
This World of Warcraft account will be reactivated on November 13th, 2015.
Thank you for your time and for understanding.
Regards,
Customer Service
Blizzard Entertainment
https://battle.net/support
Conclusion
This is what we have so far on the ban wave. If we find out more information, we will keep you posted in this very same article. If you have any details yourself, or you’d like to say something on the matter, please feel free to drop a comment. And don’t forget – you’re innocent until proven guilty, and we are always here to help! 🙂
Edit: Rumors are going around that the ban hammer has nuked close to 3 million accounts related to the usage of Honorbuddy.
Have you been able to get anyone’s account restored after this banwave?
We are proud to say that yes, we have managed to overturn 6-month bans given out during this Honorbuddy ban wave! 🙂
Is there anything you could do about this ban wave?
Of course! If you’d like to purchase our services, please visit this link.
Yesterday i received the mail that im banned, i loled because its my first ban and today i ordered an unban at Unbanservice !
I hope they can make the inpossible, possible ! 😉
That’s what we’re best known for! 😀
Replayz, did it work for you? which service did you have to order?
I have paid for the service, but have not received a response in over 24 hours. except that my money was accepted obviously. I am starting to think that I might be getting scammed and I am about to call my bank to cancel this payment.
I must apologize for my earlier comment, I just checked my spam mail and his e-mail was filtered.
I already admitted to using a bot (for 2 weeks first time offense) would you still be able to do anything about this?
Yup, admitting doesn’t kill your chances, it merely limits the defense paths we can take, but it doesn’t mean your suspension cannot be lifted. 🙂
You probably have a lot going on right now, would you really be able to service everyone? How many attempts do you take for this if we get denied the first time.
Yup, we’re on top of it almost 24/7! And that depends on the package you purchase more than anything, but regardless of the Customer Service’s replies, we will not stop writing for you until you ask us to or until we complete the letter quota of the package!
How long to wait for a response from you after payment Premium?
Heya! I’ve emailed you the response to your question just now. 🙂
What’s is the success rate with this service? I got a 6 month ban last night from this ban wave. I have a veteran account and am already regretting trying honor buddy for the last month to level an alt.
We cannot provide any success rate or percentages since every single case is different from one another, regardless of the very same ban reason and ban wave, however we are doing our very best for each and every one of our customers to overturn their suspensions! 🙂
hi i purchased the advanced package and have only received 1 letter from you so far, i have replied to the original email you sent me with instructions and also blizzards reply
Heya, I’ve replied to your question through e-mail. For your account’s safety, please don’t divulge any confidential information in comments.
@engl1sh any luck so far?
not yet mate
Buying the advanced. Looking forward to seeing how this goes. 🙂
Hey, I’ve contacted you through e-mail.
Waiting Contact!
Hey, I’ve contacted you through e-mail.
Hallo guys , I’m considering buying the Advance pack. Does any of you who bought a pack got unbanned from Blizzard?
I sent a letter and have not returned me to answer?
Do you mean their Customer Service haven’t replied to you yet? If so, give it a couple more days since they’re swarmed at the moment, and if they still won’t reply, contact us for another one.
if they responded to the first message and have returned to do
I didn’t understand what you meant exactly, could you please rephrase?
Ordered this morning awaiting contact, no ban for over 5-6 years or warnings hoping for a miracle from your service. Messaged you on skype as well.
Heya! I’ve sent you an e-mail regarding your order! 🙂
Ticket got canceled but I got no email saying it got canceled I think they might be jerking me around I resubmitted it but now I have to wait forever again
When in the process of appealing, blizzard starts auto canceling all of your tickets and says “we will not reply to any more tickets on this license” are you out of luck?
I only ask because following your letters they have canceled every ticket now within 2 minutes of creating them
Not really, we’ve had success even beyond that point. That usually happens if you ticket them yourself before purchasing our services. However it is a bit more difficult to continue from here than starting over when no previous tickets have been sent.
When I copped the 6 month ban I just admitted to it and moved on. Is there still a possibility even if they have already said they will not consider any more appeals?
It sure is, admitting doesn’t put a bullet in your defense, but it merely limits the defense paths we can take.
hb is on now and i managed to pass the arena restrictions, i am happily boting once again, soooo gg me .
Well, congratulations I guess. However, we don’t recommend it (or any other one for that matter), and given that it is detected, you should probably stop or your account will end up banned eventually.
Blizzard canceled my first ticket u told me to sent.. and I only appealed 1 time before this
Please reply to the ticket mail you’ve received from us to get your next one.
I did whatever u want me to do.. they just cancel every single ticket without respond
Please reply to the ticket mail you’ve received from us to get your next one.
Hello dude I got banned for sharing account and using honorbuddy is it passible to get my account back?
Heya! We cannot promise anything but we have had a decent amount of success in this current banwave!
Is there still time to appeal the May banwave? I signed up for advanced.
Yes, there is still time.
Thank you for your purchase and we wish you the best of luck at getting your account back!
I am from Austria and normaly i write on german with the gms and in tickets, so is it a problem if i gonna start to write english with them? (i havent replied after the moment i got banned)
It shouldn’t be a problem… You could also translate our tickets in German and send them, but that could decrease their effectiveness.
I was perma-banned in the PQR banwave and didn’t have much luck trying to get unbanned. Do you think that there’s a chance to have the perma-ban reduced to 6 months now that Honorbuddy users weren’t permanently banned?
Yes, there’s always a chance, but we can’t promise you anything. We can assure you, though, that we’ll do our best, as always, to get you unbanned, or at least reduce the duration of the ban.
Hello i got baned today for exploiting game mechanics.
To who can i discuss this mater privately?
Kind regards.
Hello!
For any questions, please use our contact form – https://unbanservice.com/contact/.
Humm I have banned with honorbuddy wave aswell but somehow, I got banned permanently and all my other friends banned for 6 months.. And for the first time banned the account was 10 years old rip 😀
Does anyone know when u get unbanned ? it’s the 13th right now
at least in europe
In the mail it seams to say: Account Action: 6-Month Suspension, but @ eu.battle.net it says:
Account Banned
This World of Warcraft account has been permanently closed and is no longer available for use.
I think you will get the account back at the time your account got banned during the day not at midnight or at server reset (instance reset)
ok thanks for the reply man 🙂
i would like to ask, have you been able to get anyone’s account restored on last World of Warcraft banwave which is takes place on may 2016? I was caught on those ban wave and i wonder if u can help me get my account back. This is my first time banned due to botting, and i have never appealed for unban before.
I haven’t got that information, since Sephirofl handles the unbanning. I’ll ask and get back to you on that.