Last week, Blizzard Entertainment filed a law suit against Bossland, the company behind several popular bot applications used in Blizzard titles like World of Warcraft, Heroes of The Storm, and Diablo III.
The official document reads:
"The Bots that Enright has programmed and helps distribute destroy the integrity of the Blizzard Games, alienating and frustrating legitimate players, and diverting revenue from Blizzard to Defendants. As a result of Enright's conduct, Blizzard has lost millions or tens of millions of dollars in revenue and in consumer goodwill."
Recently, Bossland has fired back at Blizzard, accusing the game publisher of 'stealing' the source code behind the bot programs.
According to a report from TorrentFreak, Blizzard acquired the code from James "Apoc" Entright, a freelancer who worked closely with Bossland on the development of said programs. CEO Zwetan Letschew told TorrentFreak that despite Apoc's contributions, the source code is still the property of Bossland and thus, should never have been turned over to Blizzard.
"Today Blizzard acted in a manner as shady as possible for a multi-billion-dollar corporation." Says Letschew. "We were informed that the deal compelled Apoc to submit the entire source code of Stormbuddy, which is actually the intellectual property of Bossland GmbH, to Blizzard."
Bossland is now gearing up for a counter suit against Blizzard to be filed in its home country of Germany.
Blizzard has junked Bossland's attempt at retaliation, telling Kotaku in a statement:
"Bossland's entire business is based in cheating, and the use of their bots negatively impacts our global player community. That's why we do not tolerate cheating in our games, and it's why our players overwhelmingly support that policy."
The statement says that the company has already won several cases against Bossland in the german courts, and they believe that this time will be no different.
