Got a 6 month ban.. Trying to appeal it as I literally just reactivated my account. Any advice when speaking to a GM? I outright denied it right now.
You have about a 0% chance of getting an account back that was caught in a banwave. They may respond to 1 or 2 of your emails, but after that, they'll just close your appeals without even reading them.
Nothing. No GM is going to touch it, and any "Unban Service" that claims that they can is going to gladly take your money and waste their own time. In short, that account is gone for 6-18 months. This kinda thing never has any other outcome.
I got mine lifted. Not sure if it's a rare occurence or not, but I detailed it here: https://www.thebuddyforum.com/honor...ts-here-/246451-appeal-process-succeeded.html
I'd be skeptical that your appeal sticks. Congratulations if it stays, but commonality among these waves is that these bans are set in stone. Since you didn't specify what country you're in, I'd have to imagine you're either not in the U.S. (where they seem to be more strict) or you got some Day 1 GM who didn't follow proper procedure. Either way, something is very fishy about how quickly your account was given back to you.
Not really, I have 2 seperate accounts one on one desktop, the other I bot with is a laptop. My main was never banned. I also chat when I bot so maybe that has something to do with the overturn but am unsure. I thinks it's just which person reviews your account, how "bot-like" your account was, and the alignment of the planets at the time. The more I read, the more I feel like what happened to me was a very rare occurrence. None the less, an appeal is not impossible though so at least try.
I am in the US and like I said before, I cannot speculate as to what happened and how my appeal went through. The only thing I can do is give as much details as possible, while not giving away too much identifiable info on the forums in the hopes that others may be able to replicate a successful appeal.
Because the new system in place is now a much, much harsher penalty to dissuade future botters. This new system started last May around this exact same time. The 13th to be exact. While I sympathize for you, your only shot is a very, very carefully worded appeal, and most people will tell you its chances of success are highly unlikely. This was mostly likely some form of detection, and those kind of bans are rarely if ever overturned. Mwayne got extremely lucky, but his situation is not the norm.
