It was not too long ago when Blizzard Entertainment decided to file a lawsuit versus the team that created the bots dubbed "Buddy," enabling users to cheat at games which include Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm and World of Warcraft.
Specifically, the game developer and publisher filed a lawsuit against James Enright, otherwise known as Apoc, who worked as a freelancer for the German company Bossland, the bot's creator.
Apoc then turned over the source code for the Stormbuddy software to Blizzard's lawyers who purportedly offered him a deal to hand over the code.
Bossland, however, is convinced that this is a clear infringement of the company's copyright.
"Today, Blizzard acted in a manner as shady as possible for a multibillion-dollar corporation," told Zwetan Letschew, the Bossland's boss.
He added that the company was advised that the deal allegedly proposed by Blizzard pushed Apoc to give Stormbuddy's whole source code, which is actually the intellectual property of Bossland GmbH.
In response to Bossland's claims, Blizzard said that it does not accept cheating in its games and believes that the utilization of bots adversely impacts its player community across the globe.
Blizzard also highlighted how it already won quite a few cases against Bossland in Germany. It thinks that this is Bossland's tactic to hold off the proceedings.
It said that it is certain that the court will validate its claims and completely prevent the syndication of cheating bots.
The game developer likewise said that it's going to continue to strongly guard its services and games within the boundaries of the law, in hopes to offer the very best experience to its video games' fanatics.
Way back in May this year, the developer already forbidden a large number of players who were caught using the bots from Bossland in World of Warcraft. Blizzard lately accentuated that using bots, which include those distributed by Bossland, to automate gameplay of the games can lead to a loss of access to these games.
In the meantime, a few months ago, Bossland won the lawsuit against Blizzard in a case which involved gold-selling within Diablo III.
