Recent Wave of Account Actions

[Khatovar]

Can we please get a lock (or better yet, deletion) here, along with the others? Enough about this already. These flood the homepage of most recent threads and eventually Google. All we've acknowledged here is that several of us have gotten small suspensions since 5.1 and speculated it may have something to do with either a broken system that is supposed to be targeting botting, or forming premades. The rest is nonsense about ISBoxer's involvement, the dictionary definitions of legality, chargeback policies, ridiculous claims about legal action, and other drivel.

I agree that there's no need for all the pointless speculation and hysterical overreactions, but I disagree that deleting the threads is the way to deal with it. While I certainly don't think everyone needs their own special thread about it, I would much rather people end up at a thread here that states unequivocally that people are NOT getting banned for multiboxing than a cached page full of garbage.

So here it is - People are not getting banned for multiboxing. How do I know this? Because 9 days ago Blizzard said multiboxing is still cool and they'll let us know if they change their minds

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...259?page=6#102
12/5/2012
Daxxarri
Community Manager This issue has been discussed to death on the World of Warcraft forums. If we change our stance regarding multi-boxing, you'll know it.

Account actions are coming because of something else, probably related to Blizzard trying to get rid of the latest strain of bots. Wild speculation, threats and rage aimed at Blizzard, etc does nothing to resolve the issue and only seems to be fueling the fire.

Threads have now been though a merge and purge. Yes, I pruned the crap out of the threads. Yes, I know not everything I gutted was rage, but it also probably wasn't helpful or was leading off on tangents. No, none of it is personal. I'm sure will still get people up in arms, but *shrug* make cookies, not war.

[heyaz]

A title change was a good compromise I think. I didn't like seeing that word all over my favorite forums, when no such thing was happening

[Void]

So it should be titled "suspensions going out for multiboxing in battlegrounds. Don't try to hide what is really happening. It may not be due to us multiboxing directly but it has something to do with it. People should be informed so they can try to stay away from BG's for the time being. Your title needs to be more specific. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. As of right now going on 3rd day with no response from my ticket. So if you do multibox in a BG and get suspended don't expect to have the issue resolved for a while.

[heyaz]

So it should be titled "suspensions going out for multiboxing in battlegrounds. Don't try to hide what is really happening. It may not be due to us multiboxing directly but it has something to do with it. People should be informed so they can try to stay away from BG's for the time being. Your title needs to be more specific. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. As of right now going on 3rd day with no response from my ticket. So if you do multibox in a BG and get suspended don't expect to have the issue resolved for a while.

No, it should not be titled that because people are not being suspended for multiboxing either directly or indirectly. Then people would just be misinformed. I got suspended several days ago and did receive a response and it had nothing to do with multiboxing, it was a mistake on their part saying I wasn't actively participating in the battleground. I went right back into BG's and farmed CTA's all weekend.

You can stay away from BG's if you want. Or stay away from multiboxing if you're that concerned. But please stop spreading misinformation that it's because of multiboxing.

[ebony]

new post from blizzard today on this.

its in the Blizzard Customer Support Q&A

Q: How is the current botting issues in WoW being addressed? As we all know they are more than rampant and annoying..
A: We address botting or exploitation in a number of ways. We actively investigate reports that are generated by the right click report feature used by players in game. That information helps us take action individually as well as improve our detection systems. These investigations take a great deal of time as our goal is to maximize the benefits with them.

Recently, the /afk report feature for the Battleground system has been revamped and should help address much of what has been seen in BG’s of late.

so looks like where just getting mixed into one my other friends had the same 3 hour ban as many off us

Hell some of you might not even know if u log off. go bed i only find out when i checked my email.


this is more off less what blizzard said on the phone to me dual-boxing is fine. your not getting banned for that its our systems targting you we are working on a fix.

[Fat Tire]

Recently, the /afk report feature for the Battleground system has been revamped and should help address much of what has been seen in BG’s of late.

Fight fire with fire. I am going to spam afk every single person in a bg. Gonna macro that shit into my dps key bindings.

[Void]

No, it should not be titled that because people are not being suspended for multiboxing either directly or indirectly. Then people would just be misinformed. I got suspended several days ago and did receive a response and it had nothing to do with multiboxing, it was a mistake on their part saying I wasn't actively participating in the battleground. I went right back into BG's and farmed CTA's all weekend.

You can stay away from BG's if you want. Or stay away from multiboxing if you're that concerned. But please stop spreading misinformation that it's because of multiboxing.

That's odd because I have not seen one single boxer report that they have gotten this suspension. In fact i played my single shaman that didn't get hit all day yesterday with no problems. So as soon as I ramp it up to 4 characters (multiboxing) I get suspended. Multiboxing is legal yes. Is their a problem with their system right now, yes. Is it hitting multiboxers in battlegrounds, yes. Tell me where i'm wrong.

[Owltoid]

How do you know it's not impacting solo players too? Void, you seem convinced that this is targeted at multiboxing. Isn't it possible that all types of players are getting impacted, including you which just happens to be a multiboxer?

[heyaz]

Fight fire with fire. I am going to spam afk every single person in a bg. Gonna macro that shit into my dps key bindings.

That's a BRILLIANT plan! You can do even more:
- Use broadcast every time you type, especially in trade chat
- Macro emotes and /yell /instance on all your DPS keys
- Mount your proto drakes and stand on top of mailboxes
- Force losses in WSG by picking up the flag and dropping it into the middle of the enemy team
- And much more!

I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to be abusive and grief the rest of the player base. Try it all, and let us know how it works out!

[heyaz]

How do you know it's not impacting solo players too? Void, you seem convinced that this is targeted at multiboxing. Isn't it possible that all types of players are getting impacted, including you which just happens to be a multiboxer?

I imagine it is for those types that do CTA or Randoms while they're watching TV or something. They aren't botting but are just running around, casting and aoe, stopping, using /follow, sitting in the GY for ages. I'd bet anything those guys get slapped with suspensions too.