Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
Blizz has historically done mass bans, all at once.
Every now and then, on their site they announce they've banned so many people, usually in large numbers.

I read once, they've averaged a thousand accounts banned per day, just not necessarily banning people every day. Not sure how accurate that is.
I know they do ban waves, I've witnessed them. I hang around the Customer Service Forum, have for a long time, and watched all the players show up crying how innocent they are, and the GMs there pwning them hard. I was around in Diablo II when the first Rust Storm (ban wave) went through and people lost hundreds of duped gear and glyphs and Stones of Jordans. The crying over THAT was epic. It never fails to crack me up, you openly cheat, and then have the nads to complain that you got caught?

The last ban wave was MASSIVE, it included the win trading for Arenas, and a ton of Glider users, and pretty much posted to the snotty "you can't do this, I'm not buying your game again!" people that they'd rather ban 100,000 players than tolerate their cheating. They reported 50,000 accounts closed, permanently, and I think 2 were restored, that I saw posted about. It also drove the ticket qeue up to two weeks for a response.

Anyway, I'm just saying it's WAY overdue. It may be that the GMs are swamped with petitions these days, and ban waves slam the customer service department as every cheater writes in demanding their account back. They were hinting at a ban wave about 6 months ago, a CSF GM made a comment that lots of people were going to be logging in soon and finding all their AFKed gear gone...and nothing since.

There could be legal issues, too, the Glider case brought up a lot of issues I'd never considered, and they may be preparing cases against the authors.

They tended to do them around the reset of seasons, before the awards go out, or before major patches. I hope that 3.3 brings one, but I'm not holding my breath. I do see them being more proactive on a daily basis - seems like they were ontop of things for people exploiting the Brewfest boss, but as far as botting goes, they (the botters) are there for weeks, if not months, now, and it's demoralizing. I've given up on serious ore farming, as it's so hard to find now, and it's almost at the vendor price on the AH.

Cheap ore is good, but giving gold I put the work in for to pay a cheater is not.