ohmagad blizzard changed something. first of all: i bot since ages. got a ban or suspension here and there. i know the deal. i use *** etc. i know how to be as secure as possible. story: yesterday i tried logging in to my accounts: most of em banned (those that were running as they got one i think) only 2 survived out of 9. i appealed -> none getting unbanned. weird fact is: im german and i got an english blizz support mail. reason given in that mail was "exploiting" - no 3rd party or anything else. they just insta banned every account, no suspensions. many of those accs had never have been warned. and today i try to at least check the guilds and i see: blizzard DELETED 3 of my 5 banking guilds on 3 different servers. nearly 3 million gold gone. this really hit me hard :-( till today i didnt even know they would delete guilds ... seems like they changed something in their way to deal with us.
1mio / server isnt full at all. some ppl tend to save money rather than selling every 100k. esp since new addon approaches
can u link the mail from blizz? Want to know the name of the gamemaster. I also have been hit this way.
Greetings, This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason: Battle.net Account Name: xxxxxxxx World of Warcraft Account Name: xxx Account Action: Account Closure Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers. Type of Violation: Exploitation Category of Violation: Extreme Exploitation Character Name Involved: While we regret to take this type of action, we have determined it to be in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game. Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences for your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination. Also note, you must log into the game after the suspension has expired to update the status of the account shown on your Account Management page. For further information, or to review our current Rules and Policies, please refer to: https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/ingame-policies Please be advised that these actions apply only to this account will have no effect on any new accounts you may wish to create, but the characters from this cancelled account will remain irretrievable. Should you wish to create a new account, you will need to obtain a new and unused CD key with a retail copy of the game. Sincerely, Llylandial Game Master Blizzard Entertainment As i said really weird fact is: im german, acc is german. this was my first contact to english GM and this was the first time ive been struck SO HARD (inkl guild deletes)
That's weird... it says account closure, but the email goes on to suggest it's just a suspension. It does sound like a ban, though, but their phrasing is odd...
Its not. Message is clear: Account colsure. Only "unusual" thing, is reason - extream exploitation - it just means you got deeply investigated, and all actions was done by gm's, its not auto ban.
Yes, it is odd. "After the suspension has expired" would suggest it's a suspension, but we know it's not. I wasn't referring to the fact that getting banned was odd - I was referring to the phrasing in the official email.
yes, it is deep investigation. As I also said, I also was hot the same way, exactly the same reason the same letter, only the gm was another one. Moreoverm I was targeted by the same bloody gm for 1-2 month, as soon as I make new botting chars, they are somehow found by the gm and are banned, guilds deleted, so I made absolutely no profit from those chars. What I can say is that those 2 accs were not banned for only one reason. To find the ones linked to them and ban them as well.
You're probably IP/hardware banned from selling gold, which is why you'd be flagged almost immediately after creating new accounts.
Trading char is on a separate pc with absolutely different ip. It is not hd/ip ban, if it were it would be auto bans, not manual.
damn thats how you know your fucked when it says EXTREME EXPLOTATION. I have never gotten that and I used to bot 24/7 all I got was abuse of the economys
@Crann, sorry for your loss, but I am afraid, the info you already had shared to us is too to be able to see the "big picture" behind your recent "Extreme exploitation". Like your common botting scenario: how many accounts, computers, V.P.N-s, VM-s, etc, how are they related, since you run several servers. Connections between your shuffling / Ah / gather-botting toons etc. I cannot ask you to name the servers, you operate on, but naming the server population and attitude helps too. Because some medium to high servers have steady and small anti-botting communities, which fight against any spotted bot or their AH-competition with every kind of actions, like chasing the gather bots around the Pandaria zones, and spamming reports on them, or filling reports against their AH competitions etc, even blackmailing them, in an attempt to fear them off feeding the AH with their stuff. I lost plenty of bots that way on a medium server, while having plenty of almost not-actioned bots on High/Full servers. That way, with the help of our nice community here, you could spot how you were flagged, investigated and accused as Extreme exploiter.
I agree with srs... this is definitely something that the community as a whole should learn more about. Personally I've never seen the extreme exploit ban. Maybe they thought you were duping gold or something? I hate to speculate, but whatever you did was pretty damn serious for them to go all-out on putting you out of business.
the fact that they took deleted your guilds and you had sooo much gold is prob why they banned you. they hit gold sellers hard
