Recent Wave of Account Actions

[Santa]

I got my suspension removed.

GM sent me this response:

"I have reviewed the action taken on your account and have decided to remove it. Please be advised that this decision was not an easy one to make as we have received a large amount of reports about your ingame activities.

Multiboxing is acceptable but please be cautious if you decide to multibox in an instance and/or Battleground. Remember that while the multiboxing might be fun and challenging to yourself , if you are not pulling your weight in the BG's or Instances and contributing to the group as well as a normal player would with a single character then your activities are not fair to others and they have a right to complain.

I cannot and will not request that you do not multibox in a BG or Instance but I would ask that you review your position and see it from other players view point. If you truly feel that your contribution is as good or maybe better than a normal single character and that you are not hindering someone elses gains then please continue.If your access to the instances/BG's is purely a gain to yourself and your contribution is limited to others than I would ask that you maybe multibox in the open while questing and killing mobs etc perhaps to avoid further issues with mass reports from other characters."



I played mainly WSG ganking the shit out of other players but I usually tried to secure atleast one flag cap per game.

Other bg I played was AB due to Call to arms and there I played strictly objectives and won over 50% of the games.

Sounds like multiboxers pvping might get banned all the time if this current action of Blizzard will continue like this. Maybe this is the end of multiboxing for me.

Edit: A strange thing I noticed: The reason for my suspension was exploiting with third party software but the response from GM makes it sound like it was just an excuse to punish me for multiboxing BG's.

[Fat Tire]

perhaps to avoid further issues with mass reports from other characters.

This is very interesting. The culprit?

[valkry]

This is very interesting. The culprit?

Blizzard thinks we live in this perfect world where people only get reported by other players if they are actually afk or cheating. I have NEVER heard of anyone getting suspended/warned for making false reports against someone else. It seems to me that people generally hate multiboxers and so report them afk to try and remove them... once we get enough against us we get auto-suspended due to a new system they are trialling to reduce the number of bots.

This is what I think is happening anyway.

[zenga]

"I have reviewed the action taken on your account and have decided to remove it. Please be advised that this decision was not an easy one to make as we have received a large amount of reports about your ingame activities.

Multiboxing is acceptable but please be cautious if you decide to multibox in an instance and/or Battleground. Remember that while the multiboxing might be fun and challenging to yourself , if you are not pulling your weight in the BG's or Instances and contributing to the group as well as a normal player would with a single character then your activities are not fair to others and they have a right to complain.

I cannot and will not request that you do not multibox in a BG or Instance but I would ask that you review your position and see it from other players view point. If you truly feel that your contribution is as good or maybe better than a normal single character and that you are not hindering someone elses gains then please continue.If your access to the instances/BG's is purely a gain to yourself and your contribution is limited to others than I would ask that you maybe multibox in the open while questing and killing mobs etc perhaps to avoid further issues with mass reports from other characters."

That is a stance that makes a lot of sense to me. I just don't see any system capable that can actually judge this in an objective way.