Recent Wave of Account Actions

[Feehza]

*sigh*
no, i dont think jamba-strobe-follow is the trigger for a ban.

[Santa]

Well, they finally caught me:

"Greetings,

This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:

Battle.net Account Name: XXXXXXX
World of Warcraft Account Name: XXXXXXX

Account Action: Suspension (72 Hours, Final Warning)

Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers.

Type of Violation: Exploitation
Category of Violation: Third Party Program
Character Name Involved: XXXXXXX

While we regret to take this type of action, we have determined it to be in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game.
Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences for your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.
Also note, you must log into the game after the suspension has expired to update the status of the account shown on your Account Management page."


I have only played a new team (5 man) about 3 days now after months of absence.

I have been probably reported in bg's about 98 times based on all the whispers I got.

I'm not using any addons, just plain ISBoxer setup.

Luckily I'm still on 10 day free gametime and I definitely won't be buying more after this.

Edit: And those f**kers only suspended one of my accounts so I can't play my team while one is missing.
Edit: And final warning wtf? **** *** ********.

[Fat Tire]

Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers.

This is interesting.

[Owltoid]

Any correlation between the age if the account and reporting? Anyone with multiboxing accounts that have been around for 3+ years getting banned?

[Invisahealz]

who knows what it really is. I use strobing on my 15 toons and since my first suspension have been running AV every night with no problems. Most my accounts are from 2008.
eh who knows

[JohnGabriel]

Some people using trial accounts and some people with accounts from 2008. The age doesn't seem to play a major part in it.

[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.

[heyaz]

That's very strange, Santa. It's almost as if they were saying if you're going to multibox, don't suck at it because it's unfair to the other players and you're going to get reported. On the other hand, you said you had been winning. The other faction can report you in the same way by right clicking your portrait and clicking "report for cheating".

In my case I'd had my fair share of losses, but was on a good win streak both times I got hit. I don't know which faction put in the report. I'd lost some the same day but, WSG's like 2-3; that rarely happens PuG vs PuG so I wasn't making it unfair for my team - yeah as if a full PuG wouldn't have gone 0-3 against those alliance. In my first suspension the GM response was please actively participate from now on. The second one said I was gaining an unfair advantage. Only the latter makes any sense whatsoever I guess if you looked at if from alliance perspective; I always imagine when people don't bother to release corpse and just sit there that they're putting in a ticket against me. But why does it matter, there's nothing I can do that any 4 or 5 man premade can't do, and do better.

I really think this system is in place to take care of bots or exploiters in BGs and some of these GM's or customer service reps just have it out for multiboxers, as do the players that put in the tickets. There are not that many of us to warrant an entirely new suspension system; I've done thousands and thousands of BGs at max level in the years and run into like... 5 multiboxers maybe. The forums are absolutely flooded with complaints about the bots in BGs, sometimes exploiters, and every once in awhile, a rare post about multiboxers.