72 Hour Account Suspension (Now unbanned)

[Gadzooks]

Grats to the OP about getting the ban lifted. It would be a badge of honor, you could say, but I hope I don't get anything like that.

To other people that suggest that Blizzard jumped the gun or that a GM didn't do enough investigation first, keep in mind that the game has automated detection systems (Warden) running to catch suspicious actions and log them. Likewise, I would also suspect that repeated suspicious actions in a very short time frame may also prompt the system to take pre-emptive action to stop you and then flag your case as a high priority ticket for a GM to investigate further (such as a high volume of spam reportings on one character in a short timeframe).

My point simply being that it was probably the humans that did the correct thing in this case, rather than started the whole issue.

I'd bet on a new GM not understanding what he/she was seeing, and flagged the accounts after a report. If they had set new flags in Warden, we'd see a lot more of our accounts being banned - remember, we're all using *very* similar setups, as far as accounts go.

Judging on how fast it was reversed, I'd bet on a newbie GM.

[Gadzooks]

What about if someone erroneously filed a report saying you were selling your accounts which is why you had 5 going at once??

I get a lot of people asking how much I would sell each toon for, and I'm assuming that someone can report you for the very same thing, although unfounded.......which may be what happened to you.

The selling of our accounts always cracks me up - like I'd sell any of my characters! I've put WAY too much fun and work into them, and we all know MBing is not the most efficient way to level characters.

Heck, even the scuzzy account thieves don't use MBing to level accounts. A good solid questhelper, a case of redbull, and a couple bags of Cheetos is more efficient to powerlevel characters than MBing.

[Taliesin]

I'd bet on a new GM not understanding what he/she was seeing, and flagged the accounts after a report. If they had set new flags in Warden, we'd see a lot more of our accounts being banned - remember, we're all using *very* similar setups, as far as accounts go.

Judging on how fast it was reversed, I'd bet on a newbie GM.

You could very well be right, as I'm just speculating as well. I wasn't trying to suggest that anything about our setups would flag anything at all, but what I was referring to was suspicious activities (emphasis on "activities"). If you had, say, 30k gold, and spent an entire day just simply trading it from one toon to another for no good reason but in quick succession, that may be enough to trigger something by hidden big brother software, and impose a short lockout for a day (pending GM review) after say 20 transfers.

GMs are not sufficient at trying to stop goldsellers, so I would suspect that Blizzard is relying more on automated processes to try to catch these types of things, even if its only a slight improvement. This was essentially what I was trying to point out, if I was unclear.

[Frojax]

The best game I have known for fighting gold sellers is Warhammer Online, damn, they went to war on them and just kept going. They even had a special heading for tickets so that they got on them fast. Hundreds of accounts were banned in the first month, it was great to see

[Ogloo]

since when is it only a 72 hour ban? i thought for trading it was account closer?... even though u did nothing.. wtf?

[Yamio]

They give 72 hours for investigation. If it was a new GM, Blizz may have a policy in place that no GM's employed under a certain amount of days can perma ban any accounts. Also, I would think perma bans probably require a senior GM.

Just speculation.

[beyond-tec]

Removing a ban can only do the account department.

So I don't think any GM can close down an accout - they can only lock it.

I bet that only the account department can do that and that the GM forwards it to them.

[Skuggomann]

Clearly anoter case of child molestation.

[Taliesin]

Clearly anoter case of child molestation.

:huh:

Is there something else we should know?

[AtroxCasus]

Sometimes it's something more simple than all of the above theories. Maybe you missed a tell from a GM who was investigating a report of your multiboxing. You're questing, doing your thing, he watches and after not getting responses from you, decides you are botting and bans you. On the other hand, it probably was a GM unfamiliar with MBing who didn't try to find out what was up. The really bizarre thing is, after MBing on 2 servers, it seems like a majority of people I encounter know MBing when they see it, even though it isn't very common on either server. You'd think this would be something they "train" GMs on. Of course, it could just be that at about 10 bucks an hour, the average in game GM just doesn't give a hoot about investing time to research anything....