Okay... I got banned near the end of MoP for farming ore and herbs. I was instantly perm banned but I appealed it and got turned over to 72 hour suspension instead. I even got an email saying this is a FINAL WARNING. It bothered me so much that I made a new account under the same battle.net and started raffing there with a friend and I would slowly move my toons from my main account over to this second "clean" account. Cause I have a lot of stuff such as CM gear, special mounts and a lot of my characters mean a lot to me, personally but also due to the massive time investment (before) and during my botting period ofcourse. But as you all know how tedious and grinding leveling up is. Repeatative quests, kill this/ collect that etc. I started botting on my second account as well. Assuming this would be fairly "safe" as long as I monitored it. Never had any whispers or reports as far as I know. All I did on both my accounts was botting leveling and Garrisons (and sometimes a CR in LFR due to boredom or just because I was doing other stuff in the meanwhile). I never did anything else farming wise after my first perm ban. But yesterday (as 95% of the people here) I got banned on BOTH accounts, saying the ban will be lifted in 6 months. But now to get tho the point. My main account already had a FINAL WARNING. Yet the ban will be lifted even though I already have spilled my final warning now. I think Blizzard just never intedned to bot anyone permanently. I think it's just a strategy that they have set up to either make us look forward to stuff or anything. I don't know but it seems suspicious to just hand out 6 months suspensions to everyone. Even people who have violated the rules earlier and got final warnings. I guess I am lucky though. But still...it seems a bit odd.
Imo it's more along the lines of "hey we know you bot and instead of losing millions of dollars forever by banning millions of accounts we will just let you think about it for 6 months and then start reclaiming our money."
Could be. But 6 months? The timeframe seems to long. If it was 3 month I would have said..."Okay, still long, but fine"... But seriously, 6 months...They also risk their own "life" I bet a lot of people. Possibly incluiding myself will be not that interested anymore in WoW after 6 months break.
These Final Warnings and 72h bans are very subjective! From my experience, they have limited duration, after which they gets "archived" and no more taken into account, when fresh action is applied on the account. So far I have more than three accounts, which had multiple 72h+FW, and at least single perma ban for GB2 farming in MOP, all of them are still intact, benched with no-wod upgrade for better times The statistics on them pointed that, if the 72hs are with break of at least 6-7 months+, they are getting another 72h, instead of Ban. The same could be up with the recent 6 month suspensions, only the future will confirm it.
That is very interesting. But I have seen people posting here before saying they got perm ban because they already gto suspended several years ago. How is that possible then? Or is this rule new?
blizzards banning policy is hidden to the public and subject to change at any moment. even if it were public, people would still just scroll right down and click agree without reading them.
