Quote Originally Posted by Shodokan View Post
Had 4 friends get banned. From what I've been told by a friend inside the company GMs are actually watching players in bgs once a flag comes up that they are "botting" from their internal detection system (not player reports) and taking actions based on that since there were more false positives than just for boxers, if it is your first offense you receive a 72 hour ban and a final warning and if you have ANY strikes on your account otherwise you get perma banned.
I'm dropping out of years of lurking here to share my experience. I got 3 hour suspensions on two characters back in the end of Jan. They came after the two characters got AFK'd from an AB. There was a player in it spamming for other players to report mine AFK because I was botting. I said in the game chat that I was multiboxing which was legal, but he kept it up. I reported him for griefing / harassing. About an hour later the suspensions hit on the two characters. I appealed them, saying I was multiboxing, playing by the rules. I also told about the harassing player, saying that his behavior shouldn't be allowed. I asked that they remove the suspensions and flag my account as being a multiboxer so that I wouldn't be misidentified in the future. The suspensions were dropped (although way after the 3 hours were up), their reply didn't really say anything about the reason, etc.

I continued playing BG's heavily after that. A couple of weeks later, in AV, I got a message on my screen for a short time "frozen". I didn't think much of it, it was very short. A couple of minutes later I get a message up near the mini map saying a GM wanted to talk with me (the first time ever in the game for me). I think "Oh shoot, here it comes", I click it to talk to him. The conversation was this:

GM: I just wanted to apologize about randomly freezing you. I was on a bot hunt and accidentally targeted you. >.<
Me: I'm multiboxing.
Me: Thank you for asking rather then assuming we were bots.
GM: You're welcome. Have fun!

So, it looks to me like GM's may be looking for bots live in the game, but multiboxing isn't the issue. I've played BG's heavily since then and I haven't had another problem. Knock on wood.