Recent Wave of Account Actions

[Andreauk]

I saw quite a few of you got temporary suspensions and got worried. I sent a ticket to a gm and got a response seen here :

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5764/blizzardah.jpg

[Owltoid]

I think GMs are taking a more active role. Apparently I was reported as botting, a GM researched and noticed I was playing from Bermuda IP address when my account says I'm in Connecticut and locked my accounts (that's what the phone rep said happened). Not a ban, but it is the first time this has ever happened to me. After a couple phone calls I was able to get my account unlocked. There is increased focus on multiboxers, but it could just be the result of Blizz stepping up their game against bots and us getting caught in the crossfire.

[Nitro]

Many have been mentioning the follow-up review email is just another form letter seemingly just automatically sent. But seems like everyone that has called in has had it fixed.

Made a phone call yesterday afternoon and they said they would escalate. Received an email 8 hours later saying they will continue to uphold the ban. At this point I think I am just going to cancel my accounts because continuing to play just feels like gambling for a perminant ban.

All I use is keyclone and jamba so I have no clue what the issue could be.

[Tonuss]

I saw quite a few of you got temporary suspensions and got worried. I sent a ticket to a gm and got a response seen here :

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5764/blizzardah.jpg

That's a terrible reply. The intent seems to be to imply that multiboxing is becoming "an issue" but stating it so ambiguously that he can later claim that he didn't say anything like that. I have yet to see Blizzard claim that what we do is a problem or "issue" in any context. Players have been complaining about the "unfairness" of multiboxing for years, and none of the complaints are new. None of the official responses to people who got their bans/suspensions overturned indicated that multiboxing was an issue aside from the possibility that they mistook it for botting. Maybe that GM is new?

[Andreauk]

Maybe make a ticket and see what response you get?

[cmeche]

Holy crap! Everything about that Gm's post is completely cockeyed. Where do they find these people?

reguarding pvp....
"...unfair to do burst damage and the other team cant fight back"
Did he seriously say that? What is the difference in getting cc'd and blown up by non boxed players.

and then the einstein comment on pve......
"...there are concerns of people who multi-box in dungeons not putting in full effort on all characters".....?
The exact thing can be said about solo players.
And I hope he meant to say "raids" instead of "dungeons". How do you box a 5-man and complete it....but not pull your own weight? 2box to 5box doesnt matter. Usually its the other way around.
AND THEN.....shouldnt his pvp comment make us VERY useful for pve situations???????

Very bad post and mindset by someone in charge of stuff.

[MiRai]

If you'd like to voice your concern with a GM's reply:

WoWGMFeedback-US@blizzard.com
WoWConcernsEU@blizzard.com

[MadMilitia]

Still going on eh?

I'm surprised. I figured by now they would have taken the toy away from the QQers in BGs that results in suspensions from /report spam.

[MadMilitia]

I got the same suspension the other day, the GM told me to actively partipate in BGs and it won't happen again. I was actively partipating and always am but if you get reported enough in BGs some GM may eventually just suspend you without really looking at the details.

Someone on your team may have just reported you for avoiding being AFK through botting and not partipating; there are enough of those complaints that they may just hit the suspend button without really investigating. I don't know what kind of tools they have to verify complaints, it's probably along the lines of just data of what BG you were in and when, how many times you were reported and removed the AFK debuff - I don't think they get a video replay of the BG to verify that you were just multiboxing.

Bud, the problem is the WoW community at large. They are predominately knobheads who see a multiboxer and start spamming the /report tool.

Until they take the toy away from the troll the problem won't go away.

They /report spammed before too. But Blizzard made the /report tool actually useful so yeah. There you go.

[JohnGabriel]

Bud, the problem is the WoW community at large. They are predominately knobheads who see a multiboxer and start spamming the /report tool.

Until they take the toy away from the troll the problem won't go away.

They /report spammed before too. But Blizzard made the /report tool actually useful so yeah. There you go.

Are we 100% sure its connected to the /report tool?