Zarhym wow Community Manager hates us on a personal level!

[remanz]

oh definitely fight for it. Abuse of Economy sounds B.S. There is NO bloody economy in WOW because the gold has no real value. Not like I can buy starbucks coffee with wow gold. And blizzard has been inflating its own in game gold for years to combat gold selling.

[Toonarmy]

Here is a stripped version of the actual email [NTD: all emails and links used valid syntax, I changed the syntax though to comply with forum rules about posting email address/links]:

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Thread-Topic: World of Warcraft -- Account Closure Notification -- Exploitative Activity Found
From: <WoWAccountAdmin[at]blizzard.com>
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Subject: World of Warcraft -- Account Closure Notification -- Exploitative Activity Found
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:37:13 -0700
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***Notice of Account Closure***

Account Name: [1 of 5 accounts that got clobbered with the ban hammer]

Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy

This account was closed because one or more characters were identified exchanging, or contributing to the exchange of, in-game property (items or gold) for "real-world" currency. This exchange process negatively impacts the World of Warcraft game environment by detracting from the value of the in-game economy.

Even if this is the result of account sharing, the account owner can still be held responsible for the penalty because of the impact it had on the game environment.

We've found the above behavior is many times directly related to groups responsible for compromising World of Warcraft accounts; we take these issues very seriously. To better understand our position against exploitative activity and the risks involved, please review this article: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/services/anti-gold/

The exploitative activity that took place on this account violates the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. We ask you take a moment to review these terms at http://us.blizzard.com/company/legal/index.html. Note that additional Terms of Use violations may result in more severe actions against this account, up to and including permanent closure.

If you believe your account was compromised, please go to the following website https://us.battle.net/account/support/account-recovery.html. Our support staff will assist you as soon as possible. If you are unable to access your account due to the password being changed, please visit our Login Support site here: https://us.battle.net/account/support/password-reset.html

For any disputes of this action or further information on exploitive activity, please visit the Account Administration Overview and contact page here: http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/300515

Regards,

Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/

[Khatovar]

This was going to be an edit, but I got typing happy -

You can prevent URLs from auto-linking by selecting "Go Advanced" when creating a post. Under "Additional Options," uncheck "Automatically parse links in text". You can also disable smilies in a post by doing the same thing, but checking "Disable smilies in text" so things like SW:D stay as Shadow Word : DEATH and not Shadow Word : HAPPY FACE...though they should totally make a glyph for that so you can make people die like The Joker.

[MiRai]

We're obviously going way off track in this thread because it's not about being wrongfully banned, it's about Zarhym posting about multiboxing in World of Warcraft; but when posting images don't use this forum's built-in image hosting, use an external site. No one can see those small images after this site re-sizes them.

Also, I doubt Blizzard would just choose "any ol' option" when banning an account -- They have extensive logs of almost everything that happens in their game. You wouldn't be the first person that was accidentally or wrongfully banned in the history of the game and you won't be the last.

[Toonarmy]

We're obviously going way off track in this thread because it's not about being wrongfully banned, it's about Zarhym posting about multiboxing in World of Warcraft; but when posting images don't use this forum's built-in image hosting, use an external site. No one can see those small images after this site re-sizes them.

Also, I doubt Blizzard would just choose "any ol' option" when banning an account -- They have extensive logs of almost everything that happens in their game. You wouldn't be the first person that was accidentally or wrongfully banned in the history of the game and you won't be the last.

Ok. Thanks Mirai. Will do re: image hosting.

I agree with you re: accidental/wrongful banning. I'm just saying the timing was strange, if not a little ironic. You gotta see the humour in the timing. No?

Toonarmy.

[MiRai]

Ok. Thanks Mirai. Will do re: image hosting.

I agree with you re: accidental/wrongful banning. I'm just saying the timing was strange, if not a little ironic. You gotta see the humour in the timing. No?

Toonarmy.

No, you're right. I do see the humor.

[Starbuck_Jones]

I always found it amusing when I ran into snot and drool inducing hate by other players when I used to 5 box back in BC and Wrath. I will never understand how people can get so 'piss on the carpet' mad about it. Cheaters who get caught sleeping with their spouses best friend don't even get as upset as these people do. And thousands of people do it and don't even realize that having their friends healer on follow behind them are breaking the rules when we are not.

I hope Zarhym gets called out on it at work. There is no reason for a Blizzard employee to stir the pot and call any segment of their customer base a bunch of cheaters when their official stance on the issue is clear, but his personal feelings are the opposite.

[Lyonheart]

Although I enjoy PvP from time to time, and i get that evil/good feeling of "Owning people", I can completely understand why someone would get angry when they come across a multiboxer that kills them, especially in world PvP where they can be less prepared for it. In BGs we have a better argument for the whole idea of "why you trying to kill a multiboxer solo.. bring friends". In BGs we do not outnumber their team so they have no legit complaint.

I do agree that a Bliz employee should never take an open stance/statement that, as someone already said, "stirs the pot". There can be no good come out of it, only negative. Hes trying to sympathize with those gamers who feel the same way. Isnt he the one that said " multiboxing is permittited "for now" or some such?

[Khatovar]

I do agree that a Bliz employee should never take an open stance/statement that, as someone already said, "stirs the pot". There can be no good come out of it, only negative. Hes trying to sympathize with those gamers who feel the same way. Isnt he the one that said " multiboxing is permittited "for now" or some such?

Yup, good catch.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/3...tes-us-for-now

Of course, the post is no longer there, but Archive.org saves the day again

http://web.archive.org/web/201005251...pageNo=6&sid=1

Post 111


111. Re: Blizzard supports Multi-Boxing gameplay? 05/21/2010 04:13:02 PM PDT
Zarhym
Blizzard Poster

There's no support for multi-boxing on our end. We tolerate it. For now.

Vrakthris later "clarified"

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/26344-multiboxing/

[Multibocks]

Man its all over the front page of MMO-Champion now. Thanks Zarhym.