Devestated, my account got falsely banned for "Abuse of the Economy" Appeal Case ID: #111402600

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I’m honestly completely gutted, and cross my heart, hope to die, I never purchased in game gold.

I was doing some auctions on my bank alt when I was randomly disconnected. When I tried to log back in, I was greeted with the Account Closed message.

For some context, my Battle.net account is over 20 years old and has been in good standing for its entire lifetime. I’ve never been banned before. The only previous action I can remember was a warning back around 2008 for something I said in chat.

My WoW: Forever characters collectively have around 20 gold. I transferred 3 gold to my bank alt (on the same account) so I could get some auctions going, and BAM, disconnected and account closed.

Could someone who purchased one of my auctions have been involved in RMT? Who knows. I genuinely have no idea what triggered this.

I understand Blizzard is taking a hard stance against RMT, and I absolutely support protecting the game’s economy. However, jumping straight to a permanent account closure feels incredibly extreme, particularly for an account with over 20 years of history and no previous bans.

I’m not asking for special treatment, but surely there should be some consideration for account history, particularly when there’s been no previous pattern of misconduct. At the very least, a warning or notification that an investigation is underway would seem more reasonable than immediately closing a 20-year-old account.

I’ve already submitted an appeal and am hoping someone will actually take the time to review the circumstances. In the meantime can I please have an actual human investigate this for me, I think i’ve earned that after 20 years of support.

Case ID: #111402600

Edit: I used Auctionator to post my auctions, which isn’t against ToS as far as I am aware…

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same thing just happened to me brother i was in wailing caverns and was banned for “abusing the economy” never have done anything wrong ever so its gotta be a glitch your not alone

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Maybe, but AH is generally a safe entity.

If you have received gold for services or sales via the trade window or mail, and that gold is tainted - you’re going to get pinged for it.

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Thanks for your reply, Darkannnas. I’ve seen a few post on FaceBook and Reddit. It’s devastating, I hope blizzard looks into this.

I truly hope your account gets unbanned, and you can continue to enjoy WoW: Forever.

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same to you brother hopefully its fixed by tommorow took time off work to play this game lol

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The only Trades i’ve done is for low value items, e.g., giving tanks healing potions, as a healer, or my friends giving me cooked food, and none of it was for gold. Note: i didnt get anything in return.

I genuinely baffled, and devastated I can’t play.

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Most tickets are averagi g 4 to 5 days.

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its gotta be a bug because same thing happened to me ive never bought a single thing ever

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Then apeal nothing said here literaly matters.

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The Blues have noted in the past that account actions are usually for something done a bit ago. This is because investigations take time.

Do appeal. An appaeal is the only way this stuff can be handled. When an appeal is looked at, it means another pair of eyes takes a look at the evidence Blizz has on it’s end. They either uphold, overturn, and sometimes it is sent for deeper look.

They make mistakes sometimes. But it is rare.

It is possible their net was tuned too tightly.

Good luck.

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You’ve been given accurate information and advice in this post; I won’t repeat anything already said but I don’t think this was mentioned. If it was, I apologize.

Once you exhaust your appeals for this account action, you cannot open more. If you keep opening tickets for this, continuing to fight, hoping for a different result, it will be considered GM harassment and will lead to more account actions. I am just throwing this piece of advice out there.

Reported names do not just get changed because of “mass reporting”, it’s a manual process done by an actual real human who reviews the report(s) and acts accordingly. Name fine? No action. Name inappropriate or questionable? Action.

Best of luck.

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I don’t really blame people for posting more tickets because a lot of peoples entire battle net is banned at least my friends is to be fair what more could they do other than just say you cant send any more tickets theyve already taken away all access to their games with thousands of dollars worth of cosmetics and game time

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I haven’t seen any posts indicating that whole battle.net accounts were banned. It’s beyond extremely rare for Blizzard to do that.

Multiple WoW accounts, sure. But not entire battle.net accounts.

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My buddy cant log into wow overwatch or any blizzard game right now with their ban I figured it was the case with most people that this ban was very heavy handed

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this is happening, my daughters account got flagged of all things, all my accounts in my house are over 10 years old, senseless to risk them on stupidity, i got a generic AI reply to the ticket i submitted,

I still want an actual answer as to what she did that your AI service is claiming was a bannable offense.

Ticket Number: US111431550

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Just to set your expectations, Blizzard doesn’t detail specifics – as long as she has an appeal in, that’s the best way forward.

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Blizzard doesn’t use AI nor do they provide details beyond the category of the account action.

All you can do is appeal and Blizzard will look again at their data to determine if a mistake was made.

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To go off of what Amaelain said, they use templates in the following ways:

Upheld
Overturn
Reduse
Sent up for deeper review

There isn’t anything one can say to get the last one done as that’s the person who take the appeal feel like there’s something wrong but isn’t sure.

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It just doesnt make any sense to me, we legitimately were only leveling and trading in game materials between each other for leveling of professions, no gold from any outside sources including mail i have no idea what possibly could have even triggered it, no other account was effected, and i have 8 in my house total, all my kids have their own, and my wife and i both play. its wild…

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My friend, that’s spelled with a c not an s lol