Recent Wave of Account Actions

[Void]

Complete bullsh*t so now i'm going to start getting suspensions for multiboxing?


Type of Violation: PvP Arena/Battleground Exploitation
Details of Incident: Exploitation of PvP Battlegrounds and the honor system
Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 3 hours

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This account has recently been identified as being involved in actions deemed inappropriate for World of Warcraft.

This may include, but is not limited to the following:
* Use of add-ons, "mods", external hardware, or any unapproved third party software to automate gameplay.
* Abuse of game mechanics or "bugs".
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[Mokoi]

It must be a mistake on their part. would contact cust. serv. and have them fag all of your accounts as multiboxed.

[Void]

new shaman team it was the other way around they camped me

[heyaz]

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.

[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?

[Shodokan]

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

Its not click to move
Its not interact with target
Its not being AFK (since they are doing damage/healing they are NOT afk)

What else COULD it be?

[zenga]

Its not click to move
Its not interact with target
Its not being AFK (since they are doing damage/healing they are NOT afk)

What else COULD it be?

I believe so. The blues have been silent on it. There is really no other way they could have done this. Too much sophistication going other routes. I'm a software developer and in this regard I've thought it over and yeah.. they are using the playerbase and the /report tool to do this. That's why multiboxers are getting hit.

I find this method too easy: since its not ABC it has to be D. There is many behind the scenes stuff and we have no frigging clue how or what. But detection software in general works with pattern comparison. They compare A with the pattern of the bot data they have/caught, then B, then C, etc ... and multiboxers get caught in crossfire. It's really pure speculation. But apart from I think it's very unlikely that most people start to mass report multiboxers in bg's all in a sudden. and that this is the sole reason.

They could compared for example how toons move, if a toon never actively goes right or left or forward it might lead to a false positive. The same with target acquiring. Not saying it's that, just saying that it's way too easy to jump to conclusions based on what we know.

[MadMilitia]

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

I believe so. The blues have been silent on it. There is really no other way they could have done this. Too much sophistication going other routes. I'm a software developer and in this regard I've thought it over and yeah.. they are using the playerbase and the /report tool to do this. That's why multiboxers are getting hit.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/art...sting-websites


They added an option to reporting players for cheating some time ago. And they bumped the usefulness of the /report tool in battlegrounds as well. The latter being very recently.

I saw a blue post on the issue a few weeks ago but the board is updated all day so the post is buried. For name reporting they are ditching it /dev/null. Everything else goes through some new filter auto monitoring tool they've developed. That tool is banning multiboxers. Its probably some basic arithmetic on average proximity to other players and sequence input. I don't think it works on having AFK status either.

[JohnGabriel]

Of the people that were banned, did any of you have mixed teams with uniquely different names?

I imagine if you all go in with xmog twins all named the same except é or whatever, then people are going to quickly report you.

But if you're getting banned for the less obvious boxing then maybe its not the /report tool, or maybe its only partially that. And I cant imagine more than a few people in a 40 man that reports you so it would be a very sensitive tool if that is the case.