Another day without Blizz changing course. Your sub should be about done by now. Happy trails!
I think for many of us caught up in this our only hope is someone from blizzard comes through later and decides to unban us. All my appeals were rejected.
I have no choice but to make a new account and start over again.
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Lowering the gold cap threshold to 2k-3k would have positive impacts I think to your average player
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I already replied to you yesterday about this. Seek attention elsewhere.
The problem we have with that idea is we legitimately have NO idea why this happened. What’s the sense in making a new account if it can just happen again? Despite the general assumption on here he did not buy gold, bot, cheat, or any other violation of TOS. The email said someone accused him of cheating? Is that all it takes to just silence someone without giving them any information or way to defend something? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? I understand an initial suspension pending review but as the days tick on with no information this is becoming ridiculous!
I sincerely wish you luck with your account! It’s so frustrating!
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Just like crime rates. Those are only ever as high as the ones that get arrested.
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The peace of mind you get from watching the same bots already leveling beside you in an almost empty world because everyone else gets carries that you can’t afford because the cost of nearly everything on the auction house rose after the bot accounts were banned and even basic items required to level professions cost more than you make from questing alone.
Read the EULA. Since you’re a mage, it’s pretty safe to assume you’ve farmed ZF. Think about the tactics used, and how that would be a violation.
Yeah…using pathing to kite mobs isn’t an exploit. Gathering mobs up in a circle and using aoe spells to kill them isn’t an exploit. Using blink and movespeed to kite boss mobs and stay out of range isn’t an exploit. You’re delusional to think otherwise. Just because you don’t farm dungeons as an activity or don’t like the play style it doesn’t mean it’s against the EULA.
The only reason I play classic is because these mechanics exist and the game hasn’t been dumbed-down to a homogeneous mess where every class feels exactly the same. It’s a fun and challenging part of the game to solo dungeon content and is one of the unique experiences to classic wow. Whether you dislike it or don’t agree…it doesn’t matter. It’s not against the rules to have fun in the game.
Well, if you’re really pushing the edge with challenge level, a dungeon will take you a while to clear solo. So the 30 cap won’t hurt you at all. I’ve seen a pair of mages make their way through BRD. It’s impressive, and time consuming. It’s also probably exhausting. I doubt this is the play-style you’re really defending, however.
Now, if you’re ducking behind things to reset everything you’ve agro’d so you can clear the GY withi. 10 minutes, then there is a problem.
Or, if you’re boosting low-level players with multiple quick runs for gold, that’s a problem.
Honestly, boosting is one of the best cases of emergent gameplay in wow. The fact that people have figured out ways to clear dungeons efficiently and reliably enough that they can sell it as a service is pretty awesome. To me, it’s the equivalent of someone doing a summoning service or portal service outside of kargath.
From a mages perspective, it takes a lot of time to perfect runs and is a challenging high risk high reward gameplay. One mistake and 100s of mobs instantly kill you, but if you succeed it’s a great service that people are willing to pay for. I don’t see how it’s an issue. Sure mages are getting paid for it…but the runs aren’t generating much gold from all the mobs killed. People are using gold they’ve earned on their other characters to pay for a service. It’s not like all the sudden a mage running a boosting service has inflated the economy…it’s just gold in circulation.
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Whatever you need to tell yourself, man.
What do you think of hunters selling DM tribute buffs then? That’s a very similar service that’s equally as lucrative. Is that an exploit? We play the game differently, that’s fine. I’m sure you strike up quirky conversations in world chat to entertain yourself. But your opinion shouldn’t dictate how I or anyone else can play the game.
selling DM buff is still a player’ action, bots are not
Actually, most of these gold sellers are paying for their subscriptions through Retail tokens…or so I’ve heard.
Selling runs like that sounds a lot like having a third party play the game for you.
Pay for a tank or a healer to help with a run? That makes sense.
Pay someone to clear an entire run for you so you don’t have to? We are in a grey area at best (DM tribute is more grey, IMO. Boosting seems a lot more sketchy.)
I’m waiting for your vindication thread.
Should prolly research how to follow direction instead 
Sure the bans are going up on real players, I play on Benediction US-E and our top healer was banned for botting simply do to hitting max instance cap in a day. We have logs of us in discord, and logs of him running BWL just hours before the ban. Blizzard extended the ban from six months to a year after a ticket was sent in. Blizzard ban the robots not your own fanbase!
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