I was one of the developers working on an app called WoWSharp... which was a full blown cheat program for WoW that did allow you to bot. I have since quit WoW, but during the time, even when we got detected by WardenClient (WoW's hack detection system) the most we got was some 72hr suspension.
After our deep dive into WoW's who anti-cheat world, I can tell you they suck. I am sure many innocent people get banned, while us cheaters who understand the system continue to play. Based on how Warden works, I would guess that running on Wine may have set of some intial alarms... and when the GMs came to check it out, you where doing something they didn't expect. The GMs that investigate you are not high end admins, but just one level above the $10/hr GMs who answer generic tickets.
Oh, and feel free to flame me about the bot thing, I have my flamesuit on.
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I was one of the developers working on an app called WoWSharp... which was a full blown cheat program for WoW that did allow you to bot. I have since quit WoW, but during the time, even when we got detected by WardenClient (WoW's hack detection system) the most we got was some 72hr suspension. After our deep dive into WoW's who anti-cheat world, I can tell you they suck. I am sure many innocent people get banned, while us cheaters who understand the system continue to play. Based on how Warden works, I would guess that running on Wine may have set of some intial alarms... and when the GMs came to check it out, you where doing something they didn't expect. The GMs that investigate you are not high end admins, but just one level above the $10/hr GMs who answer generic tickets. Oh, and feel free to flame me about the bot thing, I have my flamesuit on.