Banned for multiboxing-- finally overturned.

[WOWBOX40]

What do you propose to do in order to show that you are a person?

Ive been "semi away from the monitors farming" since around october last year.
I have not noticed any obvious "bot checks" so far. Nor have i been directly contacted by a GM.
Im usually sitting in my living room chair or lying in bed reading books or watching tv, while i casually press some buttons on my keyboard with a 10 meter extension cable.
I have my alarm clock on my phone set, so i go back and check my monitors around every 30 min or so.

If they are running some kind of "bot analyzer" of players they want to investigate, to maybe also pick up patterns in a players keypresses, which can be pretty unique, or so ive heard. Well, i guess my keypresses are what they are. Included normal breaks, due to finger / arm fatique. The toons also go pretty quickly afk when i take small breaks, go to bathroom etcetc

[JohnGabriel]

Make sure whatever addon you are using to relay messages is working. Take the extra time when farming to make it OBVIOUS you are a person.
I'm the kinda nub that puts on Bob's burgers or something, feet up on table spamming 1-2-3 lol without paying much attention... look what happened :|

Were you online when it happened?

[Kayley]

Were you online when it happened?

Yes. I wasn't even farming at the time- I was camping Time lost proto drake with my gf -- which spawned 20 minutes after I was banned (FUUUU).

[d0z3rr]

can u send me gold plzzz thx

[JohnGabriel]

can u send me gold plzzz thx

Probably joking, but it brings up another question. What happened to OP's friends that received the gold? Were they banned as well?

[papapacioli]

I'm going through the same thing right now. I've submitted 6 tickets since yesterday asking for an explanation other than other players reported me for cheating. So called 'reviews' have been done to come to the same conclusion. No further requests on this topic will not be reviewed. I have literally had 0 say in the matter other than the tickets I submitted. Never got a message in game from a GM. Just kicked and told I was suspended for 6 months.

What were the magic words that got you to get through and actually talk to someone?

And congrats on the justice.

[Fat Tire]

A possible option, last month they made b.net balance giftable.
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/bliz...-now-available

Buy tokens to get balance and send that to your friends. That should keep you completely off their radar.

This needs to be the standard.

...some of this shit doesn't pass the smell test.

I used to "give gold to my friends" too along time ago. They were the best of friends, they gave me money in return. Such good friends.

[JohnGabriel]

This needs to be the standard.

...some of this shit doesn't pass the smell test.

I used to "give gold to my friends" too along time ago. They were the best of friends, they gave me money in return. Such good friends.

The WoW token is set to become the next bitcoin.

[WOWBOX40]

It just dawned on me.. since last october, pretty hardcore stand still farming for hours almost daily.. not a single time have i been /w or directly contacted by a GM, nor teleported to a different location, to confirm im "here irl".

Granted, lots of other players do w me, but i dont have to respond, so 9/10 i never do.

Now i only quickly look at the small screens to see if one/some are either logged out, dead or have the "locked actionbars" (though this is very easy to spot right away, as my targetmacro wont target a new mob if the buttons are locked). So i dont bother so much to look for the very small "gm wants to talk to you prompt".

So i can conclude that GMs most likly use other means as "pri 1" in other to "verify" if illigal stuff going on, most likely some kind of analyze tool to register keypress patterns, which they will run for who know how long, in their investigation. Since they havent contacted me directly, ever. Also, reason because if they would contact me, i would then become aware that im being investigated.. which would be bad for their plans, i suppose.


There is a person on my server that is farming almost 24/7. He never respons to /w. I reported him around 2 weeks ago. Cant possibly be a single human being He is farming in a hidden phased area, so only a select few that happen to pass by by accident, can actually see him. He is still there. Annoying.. whatever software Blizzard is using, it should atleast account for the fact that players need to sleep sometimes etc.. Its possible to see the items he gets from drops via the guildpage news feed, it shows time stamps on each.

[Ritley]

They often do bot banning all at once in a massive wave. Just because he's safe right now doesn't mean they don't know or won't be banning him.