Well, I got banned today, good-bye 4 mages, and mains. (Non Dual-Boxing Ban)

[Rimmel]

Xzin Edit: It (still) remains to be seen what the real cause of his ban was. He may just be a troll. At this point, I have absolutely no reason to believe this was a ban simply "for boxing".

Well, I played 4 mages on the Andorhal PVP realm and were in the process of boosting them through SM Library with my lvl 64 Warrior and I get a whisper from a GM asking how I was doing. I turn to my main mages screen and I say "I'm doing fine, just trying to get my mages to lvl 39 tonight and head to AB" and they say "Good." I ask how I can help them and they say I am violating the games EULA agreement by ignoring the games global cool down with the use of third party programs. I told them I didn't understand, and that the only thing I was using was Keyclone, which is what I was told was OK by other GM's. They said it was not ok, and third party programs were not allowed.

I am then disconnected and so I try to log back in it says I have been banned.

"Your World of Warcraft account has been closed and is no longer available for use."

I log into my lvl 64 Warrior account, banned too. My girlfriends account, lvl 65 Hunter, banned.

I'm hoping this is a misunderstanding, and that I can get my account back. I probably wont get mine and my girlfriends account back as I didn't use my real name when making the account, instead used a cartoon characters name is some attempt to be funny or something.

I have NOT got an e-mail Yet. As soon as I do, I will post it here.

To be honest, I'm not completely upset. (my girlfriend is super pissed) Multiboxing was pretty much my last little thing to try before I got 100% bored of the game and quit. It was fun while it lasted, I kinda hope this IS a mess up.

[Yeti Detective Agency]

Interesting. Keep us updated.

Do you think you got a 3 hour/3 day suspension or a permanent ban?

...ignoring the games global cool down with the use of third party programs .

This statement I don't completely understand.

[Rimmel]

I'm guessing permanent. I've never been suspended before, but I'm guess that it tells you when you log in how long you have been suspended before? All I know is that is says canceled and unable for me to use.

[Ðeceased]

they say I am violating the games EULA agreement by ignoring the games global cool down with the use of third party programs

That is strange to say the least.. the only thing i can think of is that they were looking at your characters and saw that when you activated a skill on your alts, ur main had already started his GCD.. but then again.. I don't understand why that GM wouldn't realise that the GCD is character based not keystroke based :S


It sounds to me that either this is some huuuge misunderstanding or that there may be another addon somewhere that they were looking at.. Is that possible?

[Rimmel]

Interesting. Keep us updated.

Do you think you got a 3 hour/3 day suspension or a permanent ban?

...ignoring the games global cool down with the use of third party programs .

This statement I don't completely understand.

Also, don't mean to double post, didn't see the second part. I still don't understand completely. How do I ignore the games global cool down time? It's not like I can cast Fireball several times instantly.

[Otlecs]

Well, since the GCD is imposed server-side, that's clearly an entirely bogus reason.

Of course, and as discussed at length on these forums, using accounts with different names is a surefire way to get yourself banned, but that's not what was said on this occasion.

Keep us up-to-date with your efforts to get this fixed - it's clearly a GM screw-up, although it would be interesting to find out what put them onto you in the first place.

Purely out of curiosity, was this on the EU or US servers?

[Rimmel]

hen you activated a skill on your alts, ur main had already started his GCD.. but then again.. I don't understand why that GM wouldn't realise that the GCD is character based not keystroke based :S

The only other addon I've used before is QuestHelper, but I've got that turned off most of the time in attempt to make things a little faster for my main mage, as for my other 3 mages, they didn't have anything.


And I am US based playing on US server.

[Diamndzngunz]

Account Shearing. FTL

[Otlecs]

The text of the logon failure message suggests a permanent ban rather than a temporary one.

>And I am US based playing on US server.

Then you have a whole wealth of quotes and assertions - including these ones just from this morning - indicating that KeyClone and similar programs are absolutely fine.

For some reason, even though we're playing the same game, I always feel that the European GMs aren't as switched on to this sort of thing as the US guys are.

Good luck on this - you're on solid ground with the 3rd party / GCD crap the GM spouted, but you know the situation with the fake names and girlfriend's account.

Post the email when you can - that should give us a better idea as to the actual reason for the ban.

[Ðeceased]

ay the account sharing part is a problem unfortunately.. If you are multiboxing then they require you to have the accounts in your name. but the reason they gave is completely unfounded imo.