Honorbuddy Authentication System Will Shut Down

After 100,000 World of Warcraft accounts were banned Bossland throws in the towel.

Honorbuddy maker, Bossland after 100,000 World of Warcraft accounts were banned for six months for using the bot have given up. On the Honorbuddy forum the developer said that Blizzard can now detect the presence of the bot, and so it's shut down the Honorbuddy Authentication system.

"It seems like Honorbuddy was detected, we are not sure, but looking at the ban threads, we think that its the most likely option atm," Bossland wrote. "We are sorry for all your lost WOW Accounts, hopefully you can use them again after the 6 months ban is lifted. I have read here in the forums a bit, a lot of the accounts were 10 years old. This is a pity. We always say, do not use your valuable accounts as the risk is always there."

Bossland also referenced the Glider bot, the makers of whom Blizzard successfully sued in 2007, and suggested that Blizzard may have put extra effort into detecting the Honorbuddy bot after coming out on the short end of a previous legal action against it earlier this month.

"With Honorbuddy you thought that we are unbeateable, we never thought that, we've succeeded since 2010 - Honorbuddy had not a single software detection," it wrote. "It seems there is one now."

The Honorbuddy bot lets players gather resources grind mobs or just gather honor in battlegrounds autonomously.