Another false ban in week

Hey guys its me AGAIN. Looks like blizzard hit me with another ban but this time stating i hacked instead of breaking EULA.

This was my last thread so you know what iv previously been through.

And this is the email they sent me this time.
NOTICE OF ACCOUNT CLOSURE*

Greetings,

We have closed this game account due to exploitative activity involving unauthorized cheat programs (commonly known as hacks).

- Game Account Name: WOW#1
- Account Action: Account Closure
- Offense: Exploitative Activity: Unauthorized Cheat Programs (Hacks)

The use of unauthorized cheat programs undermines the integrity of the World of Warcraft game environment by granting unfair advantages that are not attainable through normal gameplay.

It’s important to note:

  • The account holder is responsible for all activities associated with the account.
  • Our decision to close the account was made after a thorough review of relevant evidence.
  • We take such actions to safeguard our players and the integrity of our service, in accordance with our Blizzard End-User License Agreement (EULA).

We understand that this decision may be disappointing. Our support team might not overturn these closures and might not respond to appeals. For further details, you can refer to Appealing a Silence, Suspension, or Ban on this matter.

If you suspect that your account has been compromised, follow these Securing a Battle.net Account promptly.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

Regards,

Blizzard Entertainment
https://battle.net/support

I would REALLY like to know what’s triggering it to happen? Is it my addons? Maybe restedxp?

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Nothing can be done here in Customer Support forums. Only way to deal with bans is by appealing. Then it is up to the hacks team to decide going off by their logs whether it is an error on their end or to upheld the ban.

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There still not gona tell you weve been over this ur gona have to keep apealing.

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Been over this already, appealing did absolutely nothing last time and it wasn’t until i made a post in the customer support forum before i got any resolution.

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Appeal and be patient. I would suggest going through and making sure you have no programs that are known to flag your computer for cheat programs.

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But the blues have nothing to do with apeals they cant alter the outcome.

Its also worth noting opening the same topic a 3rd time is a bad idea the answer hasnt changed keep apealing and reopening a locked topic is a bad idea.

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Posting in the CS forum also did not get you your resolution, however. They even stated as such:

Correlation rarely ever equals causation. Without knowing the contents of the email Orlyia was referencing, the conclusion is that it was given due to continued appeals.

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I’m honestly more interested in what actually is triggering the bans. My gut is telling me it’s something like RestedXP addon but iv heard blizzard will never actually give a specific reason due to real botters/hackers.

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Everyone would love to know what triggered the action, yes. And we empathize with those that do, particularly the ones that were caught up in false positives.

But as you noted, that information is highly valuable to the nefarious enterprises determined to exploit WoW (and other various games) to ply their trade and gain access to the details of some unsuspecting player naive to the ways of the dark web.

Addons you are installing through an addon manager like CurseForge or simply downloading from their website and installing in the interface folder are not going to get you in trouble.

There was a thread not too long ago that, while needing translation, came up with inclusion of something that prevented going AFK and blocked the game from logging them out. Honestly there is quite a wide selection of technology available to download that could flag Warden.

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If its on curseforge no it wasnt and no blizzard will never tell you what triggered it weve been over this thourghly.

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Then at this point i’m stumped unless anti cheat programs that other games use can trigger it because a lot of the time i might have something like valorant up and running at the same time. Maybe there are certain email providers your not suppose to use?

I’m going threw now with a ticket, appeal and account recovery please wish me luck.

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Well if you use ANY cheat from even another game that you aren’t actually playing when you’re playing wow, if it’s in the memory then that will probably flag you. Just having a cheat running in background not in actual use can and wil cause a flag.

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i didnt say cheats, i said anti cheat programs like riots vanguard system.

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The simple fact is that no one will ever really know what got detected, and Blizzard will never reveal it because it could lead to further ruination of the game than bots already do.

It could be a dynamic VPN, it could be cheating software, it could be AFK prevention software, it could be software (or hardware) that you use to make your multiboxing playstyle more efficient, it could be something as innocuous as work software that’s used to monitor your daily output and has no impact whatsoever on games.

No one will ever truly know.

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Anti-cheats would not flag you for it. That much I know for sure. Again, go through a list of known programs that falsely flag you for a ban, and cross-reference it with programs on your computer. It is not anti-cheats.

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Post here has zero influence over the outcome!

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Sorry that this happened to you again. Being that you were innocent last time this must be especially frustrating. Unfortunately like the others had stated you have to go through the appeals process again.

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The worst part of it is that you cant even talk to anyone nor find out what got you banned in the first place except for a vague reason.

I haven’t played a blizzard game since D4 launch and i cannot believe this is how they treat players now. Apparently there are a lot of classicwow banned posts on reddit showing people having those overturned. It’s like blizzard changed something with the detection system in SoD that’s having a huge ban effect, even against normal users.

Regardless i hope it gets fixed again so i can continue enjoying the game, at least apparently until the next ban.

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This is the way it’s been since the game launched. They have never ‘tipped their hand’, so to speak, regarding what triggered an account action beyond giving a category for the action.

Hopefully this means that you’ve followed the process to put in your appeal.

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I have and it was denied, like it was denied last friday before “someone” else got around to looking into it. I literally got denied twice before it got overturned with a “we’re sorry email” appeals apparently don’t do much.

Seems like its automated every time to auto deny. I’m trying to go threw other routes like here and blizzardCS on twitter but won’t know if those have results until they open for work hours, if they even open on black friday.

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