To provide more transparency on the actions we take against cheating and exploitation, here is an accounting of the number of actions that were taken over the last month, October 2023:
Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in October 2023: 203026
All of these actions were for cheating or exploitation, which primarily result in permanent bans or 6-month suspensions. This number does not include other actions such as those taken on accounts with character name or in-game language violations. We continue to evolve our methods and act against these malicious accounts on a daily basis.
What is being done about the false-positives in your detection system? @Kaivax We have a guildy wrapped up in this that wouldn’t even know how to set up bots or have any reason to risk a very old account that has been banned for exploiting… its wild and the only response they get (a loyal paying customer) is a canned response about TOS. Either this person has been secretly running bots on his main account and is lying to all their friends or Blizzard’s detection tool has a margin of error and any one of our accounts could just be yeeted at their whim.
Not true, there are documented cases where streamers who stream basically 100% of their gametime get banned for botting, and when trying to reach out to point to the VODS and say you can literally review all the game time, they also just get canned responses. Everything has a margin of error.
They shouldn’t report numbers like this even if they are fake. It just paints a horrible picture for new players when they check forums to see if Classic Era/Wotlk-Cata is worth their time.
They report these numbers because otherwise people complain on the forums that Blizzard doesn’t moderate their game and that they don’t communicate with the community.
Of course, people still make those complaints anyway, so if I were Kaivax I’d probably just knock off for an early lunch.
I appreaciate that these actions are being taken and thank you for the update; however, I once again ask that these suspensions and bans be extended to those participating in gold purchasing.
If I do a “/who dire maul warlock” my page maxes out at 50. The majority of them are not in a guild and will still be there if I check again 8 or more hours later.