Alternative to banning accounts

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Would a great alternative to account bans be to create Warlords of Draenor Servers where people who currently would be banned are only allowed to play on and they will never have access to retail or other legacy servers?

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Imagine thinking not being able to play BFA is a punishment.

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Not 100% of the playerbase hates BFA.

Or WoD for that matter, but it would definitely be disappointing not being able to play much else.

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Make them level 1 with 1hp and they can only log in right next to an enemy faction leader. Any respawn will be in the exact location as before, right next to the enemy faction leader.

Enjoy your game.

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There’s no practical difference between “account you can’t use in a meaningful way” and “locked account”. They might as well keep banning people. :man_shrugging:

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Omg yes!!! I’d get my account banned right away. I MISS WOD!!! cries in orc

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This is cruel and unusual punishment.

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A lot of things WoD did very right. I am not sure why OP is so concerning about banning though.

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I still like the old idea of creating realms just for cheaters.

You get caught using an exploit, botting, selling gold, selling services for real money, or otherwise cheating, all characters on your account gets sent over to the cheater realm, and are unable to play on any other realms (including matching with players from other realms in dungeons and pvp) until their suspension is complete.

In order to make it so that the cheater realm is not something people want to go to in order to farm rares or whatever, this realm would have reduced gold, reduced experience, extremely limited crafting materials, no rares, no mount drops, etc. This realm would also not have flight, all item drops would be blue or lower, and all raids would be locked.

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Get out. :rage::rage::rage:

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:grinning:

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Fix’d
#10char

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Good news, OP! It’s very rare that Blizzard bans anymore. CM Lore has already explained why they don’t ban players who cheat anymore. This isn’t something new. We haven’t even had a mass ban wave since MoP!

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The biggest problem with bans/suspensions is that there’s zero recourse and it doesn’t matter if it was wrongful or rightfully so. I’ve been accused of being a naughty player before, asked for proof and downright gotten some of the most repugnant “Customer Service” that boiled down to “We won’t tell you”. In fact I missed out on the WoW bike mount special because blizzard accused me of botting (No I actually did not). Didn’t matter though, I was accused and it took THREE WEEKS to get an answer.

One day I randomly got a 48hr time out, irritating as there was no reason and no mail so I waited it out. Three days later I checked again and it was boosted to two weeks, again no reason. Ended up making 3-4 tickets that would get auto closed down with ever increasingly threatening language for daring to ask what I did. FINALLY I get a six month limit and the accusation of being a botter. They won’t say when it supposedly happened or what was done so I got screwed over for just… playing wow.

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Better idea: All the cheaters have to be community managers and interact with the forums for 24 hours.

That ought to deter them.

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The obvious place to send them is…
The Cornfield

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But there’s scary children there.

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Ultima Online used to have a jail. If you logged in you were in jail until your suspension was lifted

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Or banish players to some horrible place they can never leave like some harpy infested cave for which you can never find the exit.

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You could do that but you’d have to also remove the ability to chat in global channels.