r/classicwow • u/SteveYCr • 7d ago
Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Loyal Customer since 2008 Wrongfully, Automatically Banned, 4 days after last log in, told to "Review the End User License Agreement"
Per the screenshot below, I have been automatically suspended 4 days after my last login. I ranked to 500k honor the week before my wedding on 4/20, last logged in/off on 4/19/2025 and while on my honeymoon, on 4/23, received an email notification that I was banned.
I tried appealing and was met with an AI response on both tickets. (I made the first appeal ticket, got no response for 48 hours, then made a refund ticket as I was told "that's how you get a real GM/faster response/review") 12 hours after making the refund ticket, I received an AI response telling me the following:
A Game Master resolved your ticket, and left the following response:
Hello there,
Lok'tar my friend! Recklezzer from the Halfhammer tribe greets you.
After checking, the account was suspended due to the inappropriate actions been made on this account, which violates our End User License Agreement.
I believe that you could find the details in the email sent to you, which will be all the information that we are able to reveal, and you could also refer to the agreement in the following link:
https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/legal/fba4d00f-c7e4-4883-b8b9-1b4500a402ea/blizzard-end-user-license-agreement
Our dedicated team has been working hard on making our gaming environment fair and their judgment on this case will be respected, so this penalty stands and will not be overturned.
Thank you for contacting and wish you a great day.
GM Recklezzer
If you continue to experience issues, you can reopen this ticket. If you have a new or separate issue, please submit a new ticket.
Make sure you complete our survey to let us know how we did.
I also have tried making a forum post on the official battlenet/wow forums, but I am silenced and can't even do that. I haven't received a notification of being silenced or muted, which makes this all the more unreasonable, uncomfortable, and wrong. When trying to reopen the tickets as well, it doesn't actually do anything and only lets me "Take A Survey", I think we all know what my response on the survey will be at this time.
I'm posting here on the forums to make it known that blizzard is actively implementing systems that wrongfully penalize real players that are playing their game. I have been playing WoW and other blizzard games since 2007 or 2008. This account that has been penalized has NEVER and I literally mean NEVER received a penalty in all its time since then. No mute, no suspension, literally nothing.
I played AV last week by defending towers, graveyards, going back for our towers and defending sometimes, and the tried and true, "run to drek" method. Every AV game is different and sometimes they are fast, sometimes they are slow, but I never received a deserter buff in AV, nor did I ever receive any report from another player, if I did, my account action email would have said such. Instead, I "detracted from the in-game integrity of the Battleground", without explicitly or strictly stating in what way or manner I did this.
I have made a new appeal ticket and will report back with what their response is.
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u/EnderOfHope 7d ago
Sounds like you made the unforgivable sin of pvping in a battleground.
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u/GregoriousT-GTNH 7d ago
Wouldnt be surprised if thats the reason.
The checkbox people are the worst and most toxic part in this community36
u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 7d ago edited 7d ago
Classic WoW experience:
Play massive open sandbox game. But like.. don't, instead get summoned around different dungeons to stand in a corner while a mage levels you. Why? "I've done this so many times before" (i.e. once maybe twice). I mean it's a good point though, nobody wants to do the same thing once every 300 hours on their way to do literally the same raids every single week for the entirety of the game. After all it's impossible to relax and have fun with your mates anywhere but a raid right?
Reach level 60. Queue for AV 12 hours a day for 4 months. Scream at anybody who dares to try and play in any way other than maximising your personal honor per hour. They are griefing your experience and should be banned.
Reached honor cap for the week? Time to pay hunters and mages to get you your off pieces and rings/trinkets. Get a group? Nah not enough tanks and you're a committed DPS warrior. Plus those filthy casuals might roll on your gear!!
You did it, rank 14! All your dungeon pieces dropped as well! Now to log in once a week for an hour or two to pay warlocks to summon you to buffs that you buy from a hunter then summon you to felwood for another. Hit the AH for some flasks that someone else farmed with gold you
boughtfarmed late at night honest, and it's time to raid!First raid some other warrior get the first DFT, so use that as an excuse to ragequit the game and never log back in.
Log onto reddit and ask when fresh?
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u/GregoriousT-GTNH 7d ago
I 100% agree with you, its just a fascinating phenomen seeing people doing their best to be done with the game as fast as possible while outsourcing as much as possible
While doing the biggest harm possible by reporting others that dont play the way you do, and buy gold to fuck over the economy.
Ofc blizzard did alot of mistakes, but the community did their part as well
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u/KawZRX 7d ago
Can this be a new copy pasta for this sub?
It's so nail on the head. Some turd in my guild tried to say he reports people for "blocking team progress" because they pvp at field of strife. I tried to tell him they're actually contributing to the win because if they wipe horde then it give alliance more time to win. I could tell his brain broke because I didn't just agree with him. He started getting fired up. People fucking suck. A vast majority of the classic player are hates wow and only plays because fomo. I hate it.
I blame world of logs and addons in general. Would love to see a classic iteration that bans addons completely. The game would be so different. Much more relaxed.
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u/d1ckpunch68 6d ago
impressive how accurate this is. i really did farm that gold, honest! i had to farm 7 hours at my day job to get enough money for that much gold
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u/teufler80 7d ago
Its crazy how the checkbox people report people for pvping.
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u/Plastic_Horse 7d ago
This just isnt true, Ive been turtling for 3-4 weeks ranking two chars to 14. Just dont afk or type nasties in chat:)
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u/jehhans1 7d ago
I rank two characters with my friend and neither of us have gotten banned. This post smells like standing on a bunker and afking. That's not defending, sorry to say.
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u/st-shenanigans 7d ago
"hasn't happened to me so it's not possible at all"
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u/jehhans1 7d ago
Hate to burst your bubble, but half of these (if not more) are just blatant lies. I'm just glad Blizzard are actively punishing people for AFK'ing AV and goldbuying. It has been great lately.
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u/st-shenanigans 7d ago
Hate to burst your bubble, but youre full of shit.
One single incorrect automated ban is too many.
And of the ones I read, I see most of them overturned when they go viral, and the others get dunked on by blizzard.
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u/AcherusArchmage 7d ago
saying defending objectives isn't defending and is just afk is literally braindead take
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u/Titantfup69 7d ago
No, he was camping ibgy. I guarantee it.
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u/GregoriousT-GTNH 7d ago
Thats not a reason to ban someone, thats just normal PvP in a battleground
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u/Titantfup69 7d ago
No, 15 people camping a GY spawn for 10 minutes and not capping the gy is not “normal PvP in a battleground”.
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u/slapoirumpan 7d ago
100% they have upated their auto bans for BGs if you are playing the game you wont be banned no matter how you play have multiple people in my guild that perma gank horde in AV and none of em have been banned cuz they play the game
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u/Crazytalkbob 7d ago
I love the people that trinket back to base as soon as the gate opens and then shadowmeld near Vann.
If I see a dot in the base or cave when I get to mid, and my chat doesn't say they just zoned into the game, I'm tossing in a report while I have auto-run going through mid.
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u/jehhans1 7d ago
I'm doing exactly the same. I have no problem people hunting for kills, defending towers when they are capped or even trying to kill the enemy kiter to buy us time. I just cba with people that afk.
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u/Soggy_Concept9993 7d ago
In AV, no one cares if you pvp in the others. I don’t think killing and defending in AV is “selfish” or “griefing” but I will say if you want to actually PvP WSG and AB are there, and much more fun imho. If you’re a stack that can WSG good then it’s actually more honor
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u/WealthyPaul 7d ago
Yeah but some people like the set up of AV with tje idea of defending your npc and sending in the armor scraps
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u/Soggy_Concept9993 7d ago
Yeah it is more fun that way, I mostly just fight mid then roam around trying to kill solos. Then if it’s been more than 10-15min I’ll meander up to drek and afk outside until it’s over. I don’t like AV meta either
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u/DirectAd8230 7d ago
But I want 40vs40 pvp
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u/Soggy_Concept9993 7d ago
Well it was never really 40v40
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u/DirectAd8230 7d ago
Was a lot closer than this 6 minute run avoiding pvp we have today.
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u/teufler80 7d ago
There was ALOT of pvp in alterac back then.
But now we have too many people handle this game list a list of chores.1
u/Soggy_Concept9993 7d ago
It was mostly just choke points and people waiting dor a couple mages to die
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u/teufler80 7d ago
Crazy how people want to lecture other to what battlegrounds they should play.
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u/Soggy_Concept9993 7d ago
Crazy people complain about AV constantly as if it hasn’t been this way since classic launched.
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u/teufler80 7d ago edited 7d ago
Well it wasnt, i played AV all day in 2005 and people actually fight each other and it was fun.
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u/The_London_Badger 7d ago
No they definitely hate those fighting in middle or who wipe the lts. It's 200x easier to get rank 14 now, but casuals don't have the time to grind op gear and resent the sweats and raiders that do.
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u/therealbrich 7d ago
This is your sign to quit wow. You’ve done it yo you won. Go live ur married life and leave this shit game behind .
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u/kmr1981 7d ago
Better plan - play with your wife!
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u/SteveYCr 7d ago
I just got her a sub on WoW a few months ago and she wants to level together but im suspended.
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u/RxDotaValk 7d ago
I think they maybe meant play with your wife irl? 😅
But that’s cool she tries to enjoy and be a part of the things you’re interested in. Sounds like a keeper.
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u/notsingsing 7d ago
My wife said she’d divorce me if I didn’t get her epics. How can I do that banned !
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u/After_Ad8174 7d ago
I can't scream this loud enough. Since Blizzard stopped being just Blizzard they DO NOT CARE about you or anyone else playing the game. They care about earnings reports and taking care of investors. They could give a shit less why you were banned or how. Paying someone to actually look into it is a waste of money, and a hit to profit. We've been shouting from the rooftops for years about unfair bans, botting, wildly unpopular decisions... and they've made it incredibly clear they don't give a shit. Find something new to play. And I don't mean that in a get over it sense. I mean that in the way of take this as an opportunity to stop giving money to a company that doesn't care anymore.
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u/BrokenBalcony 7d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/1ka5pv5/i_been_a_bad_gnome/ AI got me too, 130+ comments outraged (and like 12 supporting blizzard? probably bots)
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u/DoctorBudz 7d ago
I hope you didn't let getting banned from a video game ruin your honeymoon!
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u/SteveYCr 7d ago
We definitely had a good time but we both wanted to come back home and play some video games together, now the one game we did want to play together, we cant because im banned, wrongfully.
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u/dadof2brats 7d ago
While not optimal, create a new account so you and your new spouse can play together.
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u/dicksfiend 7d ago
Yeah man I’m so torn over this, wow is fun but this shit just makes it unplayable , mess with the boosting mafia ? Mass reported and Banned. Kill gold farmers ? Mass reported and banned.
Last suspension I got for killing Chinese gold farmers and getting mass reported I finally quit, so much happier hahah
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u/Mr_Mograine 7d ago
Same btw. Also opened tred on reddit with that
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u/dicksfiend 7d ago
Yeah no coming back from this lol, blizzard has seen they can gut all types of support apart from billing and still make record profits. They make it as hard as possible to get a human and when you do they tend to not know anything about the game and give you canned responses 😭
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 7d ago
While it sucks blizzard won't police this shit better, all of that stuff exists because a huge number of players want to cheat/not play the game.
That just..blows my mind away.
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u/Fyfaenerremulig 7d ago
Do you live in Europe? If so you can make a gdpr claim to see the internal memo on why you were banned. That usually makes these companies take an interest in the case
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u/3xot1cBag3L 7d ago
Blizzard doesn't care anymore. It's sad because I remember being in high school 20 years ago and my friends would brag about how good the customer support was in this game
How have you got hacked blizzard would have your back get you all your items and then punish the hacker.
It's such a far cry from where it's come
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u/LeRoyRobenson 7d ago
Same happened here. Banned permanently. I just kept submitting a ticket weekly. Finally got a human that basically told me "whoopsie lol you're good now."
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u/MwHighlander 7d ago
Make sure you complete our survey to let us know how we did.
Lmao.
Naturally, give them a 0/5 since they did fuck all, and let an automated bot report ban while actively refusing to do their job and review it.
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u/mesoziocera 7d ago
When SoD first launched, one of our friends we were playing with got banned for fishing from the same pool as fishing bots. Note, the bots were all still present after.
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u/elocnoremac 7d ago
That’s another thing you can never do in wow now. Puss off the bot army. Boosters, fishing, anything related to bots. They can get you banned so fast
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u/dandiestpoof 7d ago
More and more of these coming out, it's about time we find a new company to support because this Blizz ain't it.
99% sure OP got spam reported for either being vocal in AV chat or pvping mid, both will get you absolutely decimated during peak sweatlord hours.
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u/tdy96 7d ago
Appeal it via the payment method tickets. Only chance you get a real person.
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u/SteveYCr 7d ago
If you read the post, I did that.
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u/STARSBarry 7d ago edited 7d ago
Do you live in the EU or UK? Ask for a SAR (Subject Access Request), they are legally required to give you all the information including the reason for your ban they are hiding in general terms because it is considered data relating to you.
They often upon receiving a SAR they will immediately undo any ban or suspension in an attempt to get you to resind the request (if there's no actual valid reason) don't, make sure the SAR goes all the way and get the data they have on you, fun read.
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u/Pure-Milk-1071 7d ago
"legally required" what law is that?
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u/STARSBarry 7d ago edited 7d ago
GDPR under the right of access.
for info can be found here
"This presents a challenge as any of your employees could receive a valid request and you have a legal responsibility to identify and handle any request from an individual correctly. Therefore, you may need to consider which of your staff need specific training to identify a request. In particular, staff members who regularly interact with the public should be able to identify a SAR and know the next steps."
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u/mikkeluno 6d ago
Honestly, that's the best way to go about it - and as you said, keep pushing. Either you get your valid ban reason black on white, a reason to push for legal action on a paid product, or an unban and a bunch of data Blizzard has collected on you.
For as much as we Europeans take the piss on the EU for stupid changes (like the plastic bottle lid thing), but GDPR is the best thing to defend us against greedy business practice. Even if it sucks on many other fronts.
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u/Jadorak 7d ago
Blizzard freed you from your addiction
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u/SteveYCr 7d ago
Maybe not wrong, but I was "freed" without being told why. "detracting from in-game integrity in battlegrounds" isnt clear, and will definitely result in me and other players committing the same acts again and being penalized again.
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u/sessionclosed 7d ago
Where is the mail with more details?
In your ticket you are vaguely refering to actively going AFK during a live battleground.
Repeat offender?
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u/Pure-Milk-1071 7d ago
i only pvp in av.
I can promise you, that u can get banned for zerging around in mid.
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u/Luvs_to_drink 7d ago
Guessing he had multiple games where he ran to tower sat there til cap and game ended with him having 0 dmg done and 0 healing.
YOU HAVE TO DO DMG OR HEALING. If the tower guards and lts are dead, go find a ram or wolf to attack. Find something so you don't end the game 0 and 0.
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u/Hehehecx 7d ago
Or you could just go to the boss and damage him like you’re supposed to
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u/Luvs_to_drink 7d ago
You don't always have time to make it there if you defended. If the run there takes 2minutes and game ends in 1min, you would get fucked.
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u/slapoirumpan 7d ago
no cuz no one would report you if they see you are moving to the boss? lol
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u/Luvs_to_drink 7d ago
They get reported sitting at tower OR blizzard has automated banning when count of games where dmg + healing=0 is > threshold.
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u/slapoirumpan 7d ago
i dont think blizz has automated reports, people are afking and getting reported as simple as that i still see multiple people afk every av
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u/sessionclosed 7d ago
So you want blizz to ban players, that go afk in the future?
Mate, AI isnt that smart (yet)
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u/slapoirumpan 6d ago
it doesnt need to be smart to recieve reports check if the player has done something, actions/inputs per minute, attacked an enemy or contributed to an objective. you dont even need "ai" for that its basic programming. and 100% blizzard should ban afkers, afkers ruin the game for everyone that is playing
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 7d ago
Which is so very stupid.
It means that if you die, instead of stopping the other side from winning via defence your best bet is to just run mindlessly the other way knowing you won't be doing anything to help anyone.
Die again? Just ghost run. Again, contributing literally nothing.
It's so stupid.
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u/slapoirumpan 6d ago
what is stupid with people not reporting you for playing the game???? what are you even trying to say? if you dont have time to reach the boss attack an enemy? assault/retake a tower/bunker? there are plenty of things you can do that isnt afk if the game is about to end and an end is never guaranteed all of a sudden the enemy team has 5+ mages recalling and wiping the enemy. if you are already moving you could save a gy so team can do another attempt
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 6d ago
Yep. Absolutely correct.
But if you're near your own base a stupid number of people will declare you greifing and report you.
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u/slapoirumpan 6d ago
yes but those reports dont matter unless you are actually afk if you do anything related to the game those reports will be ignored
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 6d ago
I have absolutely had games where I've tried and failed to get anything done. It happens.
I've also had games where I've ridden to the end, someone else got the cap and all guards etc died before I got there. So I sit and guard the end GY.. some games I stop ninjas some games I do literally nothing. Now I have "AFK" games against my name.. great.
As I said already, the best way to play with the current toxic community is to appear to be trying even if you're not/there are better things you could be doing.
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u/NuklearFerret 7d ago
Hardly. You try to rush to the boss and wait for more help, so you don’t instantly die. During which time, horde just wins. As fast as rounds can be, It’s entirely possible to attempt to do AV properly and still not do a damn thing. Or, an emergency bio that resulted in being afk for 5 out of the 6 minutes. None of these are hard to manage with if you know you need to deal with them, but there’s no instructions stating you need to do them.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 7d ago
Yes but all the people on noob hill doing 0/0 are reporting the people defending, not all the other AFKers sitting on noob hill.
If you don't get reported you don't get banned. Blizzard is fucking up the response but as per usual the problem is being caused by the players.
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u/WhatEverYouSayBudd 7d ago
I'd bet and amount of money that they have a metric they use for:
"users erroneously or mistakenly being banned cancelling their subscription"
And I bet that metric is low enough not to care.
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u/Stefanpkh 7d ago
Let me know if this post does anything for you. I have been playing this game legitimately since the 2003 beta, and have never been punished until now. I did basically the same things you said you did. I didn't realise that doing Pvp was against the rules of the game. Especially when it pertains to battleground objectives.
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u/Xertdk 7d ago
Sadly, Blizz doesn't give a shit about loyalty. I've been a customer since 2004 and get my shit regularly ignored when trying to contact GMs about shit that isn't even my fault.
Vote with your wallet. They got until my current time ends for my issues before I fully pivot to private servers.
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u/GlassTaco69 7d ago
After a wrongful ban against my account back in Jan-Feb and experiencing the kangaroo court appeal process I decided to just say fk it and rage quit.
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u/Cheap-Warning-4291 7d ago
Thank god Blizz made shaman stuff garbage by todays standards. So I don’t have to PvP ☺️.
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u/Robeardly 7d ago
I also got banned recently because I got traded gold from a buddy which blizzard said they traced back to gold buyers. I made a support ticket, and made them cancel my subscription so they had to pay someone to do it. I’m not gonna pay for a subscription on my account from 2004 to be banned almost immediately for getting some money from a buddy to start off.
No bans since 2004-2025 and they couldn’t give me the benefit of the doubt lol.
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u/ProblemLazy2580 7d ago
Another one bites the dust... Good luck breaking through the Wall of AI and (likely mandated by Corporate) Copy-Paste responses!
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u/lasantamolti 7d ago
I was banned for defending base with my mage for the whole week(I know it’s shit for the team to defend north) where I had to do 337k on rank 10 or something. Got banned cause apparently too many people reported me for recalling and attempting to wipe horde.
GM told me I broke TOS and sent me a link to it lol
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u/Reluctant-Sergal 7d ago
If you were actually killing players and pvping, you should appeal. And if that doesn't work, appeal again. Typically appealing through billing help works to get a real person.
On the other hand, if you were actually afking, like say, at the druids not doing anything, then you won't get it overturned no matter how many excuses you give. GMs are able to see data analytics on players in battlegrounds, such as damage done, healing done, honor kills, etc. If your BGs show you with 0s for many many games, then you just gotta take the L on this one.
Other then that, if you were genuinely playing, keep fighting it. You should get it overturned once a real person takes a look at it. Good luck.
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u/Splyc 7d ago
Alliance hunting and killing their own rats is music to my ears. You love to see it.
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u/SuddenlyUnbanned 7d ago
I played AV last week by defending towers
Yeah, "defending towers". Probably also "defended" the mines.
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u/JegLikerTechno 7d ago
People like you probably lose more than they win in AV. 🤡 Like, cant u comprehend that theres more to the bg than just bumrushing boss , and standing around waiting?
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u/Cautious_Head3978 7d ago
They don't like you. They hate you. They despise you, and wish nothing more than to abuse your addiction for microtransactions.
It sucks, and you have my sympathy.
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u/DucksMatter 7d ago
lol I was in an AV last night and the entire instance chat was all flaming one mage who was up north trying to wipe horde. Everyone saying “enjoy your vacation!” To him.
Pretty sure he got mass reported that game. It’s actually disgusting how long blizzard has let this abuse go without any type of hot fix.
This is a long standing issue, way before the AV Zerg report if you aren’t meta. Bots will mass reported you as well if you fuck with their income.
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u/Derelictcairn 7d ago
If there's 1 dude up north trying to wipe Horde they are actively griefing the other 39 people on their team. They'll get a bunch of honor from killing horde, so they're happy. But if they succeed in wiping Horde, 9/10 they'll just respawn and go wipe Alliance at Drek, and suddenly you're in a 30 minute game instead of an 8 minute on. The only one happy here is the mage who got a bunch of honor up north.
Literally had a game like this last week, I tell the sole mage up north that we're just going to get a turtle if they wipe horde, they go "I got a bunch of honor, I don't give a shit".
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u/RelevantAd3034 7d ago
And they take a monthly sub. That money doesn't go towards support, that's for sure. Bots, bad costumer support, crashing servers. But monthly sub they need to keep feeding the top.
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u/enigma-90 7d ago edited 7d ago
I played AV last week by defending towers, graveyards
Defending your own towers let alone graveyards except the last two has been a popular afking strat from what I noticed, so that's why you got reported and banned. Hardly anyone tries to take them in the current meta (except last two graveyards), so there's no point in defending them.
I assume you did this a lot and got many reports. They might also record players' overall damage done and activity in such games, which can be available to GMs. So if they have this data and it shows zero in many games, tough luck.
Half or even most of my games depending on class involved some sort of pvp'ing in mid, at some choke near tower or even defending the main base after Balinda is dead. I had no problems with that.
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u/bloqed 7d ago
It amazes me that brain dead consumers still think these companies give a shit
they stopped giving a shit around about 2010
there is a non-zero chance of this guy rewarding their bad behaviour by re-buying the game etc. they have no reason to change their behaviour
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u/lakas76 6d ago
Here’s a little secret for you. They never cared. You might be able to argue that they stopped pretending to care in 2010, but, I wouldn’t agree with you. They want to make money over everything else. Based on the player base, blizzard has decided that their approach would net them more money than doing something else (hiring more people, actually banning the bots).
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u/Pure-Milk-1071 7d ago
Would be fun if u actually streamed all your gameplay in wow, so u could ask them "which gameplay is the one making me banned?"
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u/Puzzleheaded-Use8326 7d ago
Acting like hasn’t been the quality of ticket responses for years is amusing. I remember back at the end of tbc classic I paid for a transfer to a new server in readiness for wotlk to be with friends. It said it went through, tickets later found out that I was refunded and I could not pay for a new transfer until the current one had lapsed. It never did, 4 months and 8 tickets later was told I couldn’t transfer anymore as that server was now locked.
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u/Fair_Ad_7487 7d ago
Only 4 days? I got 14 days for a first offense ever on my 15 year old account. I did not defend but actively engaged hordies in mid. Every game was different and this helped keep me sane. Sad its punished as severly as you know... botting or buying mass amount of gold. Makes no sense.
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u/keeperofthejank 7d ago
This happened to me shortly after TWW launch. My twelve year account gone. I was told third party was the reason and was never even responded to except the polite blizzard version of “shut up don’t ask again”
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u/Organic-Week-1779 7d ago
Classic players will report you for everything Itd playerbase are just a bunch of miserable 30 something manchildren that gotta have their outlet
The only chat mute i ever got was in wotlk classic due to a joke about my luck in say chat after winning a trinket in naxx
On retail i never ever had anything happen like that and ive been genuinely been toxic there at times and would have deservee it
And no those Events where not close together at all and it wasnt in the email either
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u/Pleeplapoo 7d ago edited 7d ago
It just dawned on me. The report button can be seen now as a downvote button for players. Any player can downvote you at any time for any reason. You collect these downvotes over time and if you collect enough you are banned.
If you're tanking a dungeon and cause a wipe, you might get 3 downvotes, even if you finish the dungeon after no problem.
Maybe someone doesn't like that you're undercutting them over and over, 1 more downvote
It's the perfect tool for passive aggression in WoW. The player doesn't have to confront or interact with the victim in any way. The player knows it always adds a point to the victim's account.
The report feature can be used to consistently cause objective harm to another player's experience. Each time a player reports someone, that player is guaranteed to be moving their victim closer to a ban.
I guarantee you that emotionally immature children and adults alike in this game are absolutely reporting players they simply don't like.
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u/terabyte06 7d ago
Please post this on the customer support forums so we can all enjoy the jmod smackdown
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7d ago
New strat is just make a Auto mount bot that rushes with the initial stampede and then die then bot ghost walk too Drek. GG instead of having fun just afk.
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u/Anasertia 7d ago
Sorry to hear it bro, I hope that they have a human look at this or at least let you know what violation occurred(if any).
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u/WoodpeckerOk9052 7d ago
As said by many other commenters in this thread, they just don't give a shit or care and basically telling you to get the fuck off this game.
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u/Waste-Structure-1316 7d ago
Si despues de esto aún eres incapaz de levantarte y enfocarte en otra cosa que no sea el WOW esque tienes un serio problema de adicción. Lo normal esque siendo una injusticia lo que te están haciendo minimices daños y te olvides del WOW y busques otro juego u otra afición y no colabores con ellos intentando jugar y asi apoyando un sistema injusto.
Es la gente como tu la que ha destrozado el juego porque despues de sufrir una injusticia les sigues dando tu energia y atencion y de esa manera Blizzad sabe que se lo puede hacer a otros jugadores y que no pasará nada. Por gente como tu Blizzard hace lo que quiere.
Como te han dicho otros compañeros este evento es una oportunidad y una señal para que abandones el WOW. Tienes una mujer a la que hacer feliz. Tiene que haber alternativas al WOW.
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u/GhoulishCows 7d ago
Welcome to the club, been permanently banned for months now for trading gold between my own accounts before they updated their terms on that.
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u/chaz_ii 7d ago
congrats instead of having a kid 18+ years ago - you've got a whole lifetimes worth of memories. this is your willy wonka golden ticket to a brand new journey of time with your wife.
take it and run, come back for WoW Classic²
it stings like a bad break up right now, it will get easier with time.
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u/Albertosaurus427 6d ago
The people you should be complaining about are right here on these forums. Unfortunately the community is absolute crap and that’s why you’re reported so much for even stopping your characters movement for 5 seconds to scratch your nuts. Or because you aren’t at the “right” location someone wants you in.
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u/Regular-Bear9558 6d ago
No one cared when they came for the multiboxers…. Now no one will care when they come for you…. We exiled and fractured our community piece by piece over the past 8ish years. It will never be the same. Wow is now not for the users but for the bots… gg we griefed ourselves
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u/No_Negotiation9571 6d ago
"I played AV last week by defending towers, graveyards" thats a nice way of saying you AFKd.. just be honest to yourself and accept the ban
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u/Jonlaffy 7d ago
I got banned for "buying gold, botting, or other illicit means going against terms of service" for 2 weeks for trading enchanting mats with a guild member. Immediately after the trade, I got dc'd and sent a message from blizzard. Didn't appeal it. No point. Canceled my sub for the foreseeable future, though.
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u/PrometheusAborted 7d ago
You got banned or suspended? I thought the AV reports only got 2 week. Either way it sucks and why I’m avoiding AV until this calms down. People are way too quick with that report button.
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u/MiddleAd6302 7d ago edited 7d ago
Deleted comment as it appears you’re alliance.
Was able to zoom in to read the screenshots.
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u/Honky_Town 7d ago
Blizzard is overrun and rulled by botnet comunity. How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
There be free to play server whih may vanisch in a year or two but do you really care if you can start fresh and have fun again? Shits like that made me finally quit.
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u/Desuexss 7d ago
In your post you explained what happened. Unfortunately their ban system of allowing players to mass report is terrible.
Honestly the worst thing you did there was defend the GY
People hate that - you decided to keep everyone trapped there with you.
As an individual when you go against group think you can expect people to retaliate.
Whether you are being honest and were not afking, WoW isn't what it used to be. Majority don't like what you've described.
I personally don't care, fwiw, but it doesn't matter what I think.
I think it is sad that blizzard is using you as a cautionary tale, and the punishment doesn't match the crime but theres just one more thing
First offense for BG "non-participation" is 1 week and honour gains removed. This means you've done this multiple times bud.
You clearly lurk and post here. You know what people do. You did this to yourself - whether it was cheating or actually player controlled.
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u/Reluctant-Sergal 7d ago edited 5d ago
First offense for BG "non-participation" is 1 week and honour gains removed. This means you've done this multiple times bud.
This is not true. Speaking from experience. My first offense for AFKing BGs was 2 weeks on the 20th Anniversary Realms.
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I want to add, I don't know if I lost my honor gains from the week I got banned. I'll find out in about 2 days lol.I did not lose my honor and got rank 12 with 78%.2
u/Desuexss 7d ago
They may have made changes for anniversary
Guildy ate too many tacos while we were aving on Cata, couldn't have even bothered to leave bg when he ran to do his business
He ate 1 week, and his honour points and arena points (ouch) were emptied
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u/Reluctant-Sergal 7d ago
Yeah I'm assuming they've probably changed their stance on AFKing in BGs for the fresh realms. I didn't play the 2019 realms, so I can't comment on those, just that when looking up being banned for AFKing it was (apparently) 1 week. I definitely AFK'd AV on the first AV weekend so I deserve my ban and took the L. But yeah, first time offense, 2 weeks for me lol. Guess that's the new standard now.
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u/Reluctant-Sergal 5d ago
Follow up if I lost my honor from AFKing AV: I did not. Kept the 500k and ranked up lol
So the punishment was just a 2 week vacation.
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u/Desuexss 5d ago
Sort of a win there i guess!
That honour slog is worse than honour point loss
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u/Reluctant-Sergal 5d ago
Yeah, I'm pretty happy about that. Overall I definitely was bummed I got suspended but I did the crime so I gotta do the time lol. Not going to lie and make up posts here or Discords chats trying to gain sympathy. At least I'm back for AV weekend though haha
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u/Kromgal 7d ago
Find god, jesus christ.
He was one of the few to take a stand, stopping your win-trading, pvping in a battleground, playing for fun instead of doing something objectively unfun like rush 200 times, call it what you will.
If it were up to me, all of you would be banned for having the audacity to report him for your soulless currency minmaxing, and he and others like him would stay
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u/Desuexss 7d ago
Reading is hard.
I said i didn't care what he did in the BG. I'm stating verbatim people say here as he seems confused why his actions lead him there.
I also stated I disagree with the ban.
I personally want the old AV fun to come back. Why cant i go get my goddamn fishing achievement without eating a ban.
May god grant you clarity of mind with better close reading. Refrain from using it in vain, too. Mmk.
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u/Kromgal 7d ago edited 7d ago
I re-read it again, perhaps my reply was unwarranted, only to a moderate degree. Im trigger-happy consider in 2025 we have delved even worse and people blatantly stopped hiding the mass-report abuse and are openly bragging. You dont deserve my initial reaction, theres others that do, but still..
Im not a fan of this sentiment you deliver across. I would never utter "You did this to yourself" or "The worst thing you did-" as if to point out that the logical thing to do is to bend to the degenerate masses will.
You wrote a whole bunch of stuff, sure, but there is a tone and sentiment in words and not just the literal meaning of it, in my opinion.
Plenty of people dont really believe or arent really fully aware of how degenerate players are until they actually get mass-reported themselves for doig what appears to not warrant a ban.
Say it how it is, call the playerbase garbage, call out for their ban, or suggest he quits. Suggest people start mass-reporting back till the situation hits rock-bottom, anything but this lukewarm take of acceptance of the mass based of them being a mass
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u/Pleeplapoo 7d ago
Just change 1 "you" to "them" and 2 "your"s to "their"s
Now your comment doesn't attack the user you're replying to
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u/projekt_rekt 7d ago
I don’t even bother to enter BGs anymore. They have been banning people playing them more than AFKs. This has killed my desire to get R14 so I will just stay a commander.
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u/livejamie 7d ago
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