I’m only asking for general advice on a ban appeal I’ve placed for RMT. The suspension was 100% warranted, regardless of the unfortunate circumstances of the situation. I placed a ban appeal to see if there was any chance of reducing the suspension time. I understand that this isn’t likely. My question here is: Will my ticket be answered regardless of outcome? As it stands my account is suspended into the Wrath launch. I’ve taken time off work and set aside a certain amount of time, that I will have to make decisions based on, as well as friends and family concerning guild progress into launch. Due to the unfortunate timing, I would likely just cut my ties and continue with other things. However other people that are close to me are awaiting to see if I will require replacement.
Yes, you should get a response unless and until you are advised no further appeals will be taken. Response times are running longer than normal though, so make sure to keep the ticket open and don’t open multiple.
Ok understood, thank you.
If u bought gold from a 3rd party site then this suspension should be the least of ur worries I hope u didnt buy gold from a 3rd party site. This is how they steal CC information id contact ur bank your card couldve been comprimised.
No thankfully I did not offer my CC to any third party sites. Long story short I had stopped playing shortly after completing phase 2 of TBC Classic. I mailed out probably in excess of 10000+ in goods and gold (100’s of dark runes, mana pots, elixers etc, as well as gold directly).
I returned at the behest of friends to make a run in early WotLK at some server first achievements. I boosted a new character and began farming gear and gold to launch into wrath. I already had several thousand gold remaining on my characters, and was attempting to stockpile resources. I unfortunately think someone may have sent me gold directly via 3rd party RMT. I made the mistake of not screening and just auto opening my mail along with other things from auction house. I didn’t think anything of getting several thousand gold at one time, because people had notified me it could be expected. I assume full responsibility, however this delay critically impacts an early start in WotLK.
My appeal was to hopefully reduce the suspension so that I may start playing the wrath expansion on time as of course I paid $100, took time off from work etc. Shot in the dark but I had to try. If it’s rejected I will likely make my peace and skip starting back up all together and see about refunding my Epic Northrend bundle.
Oh, where to begin here.
Let’s just brush it all aside as you are wrong in pretty much every account. Now, the one thing I may give you is that while it may feel as though they don’t have enough staff with the current ticket times, this is an anomaly. Normally tickets are answered fairly quickly. Unfortunately right now it’s a bit of a perfect storm making ticket response times so bad. They are working as fast as they can to get all of the tickets answered and cleared through.
Appeals do work, we have seen false positives cleared and resolved here with enough to be able to say that factually. Heck, even the Dev post when the big BG AFK ban wave went through admitted there were mistakes and some cases were fairly immediately over turned. More were drastically shortened from a month to a week or so. So where is your data to back up that blatantly untrue and unconstructive spiel you felt the need to post?
Every ticket, especially appeals, are answered. Sometimes, the answer isn’t what a player may want (see below), but it is what it is.
All appeals are given a response by an employee. It may be a template, which are used to ensure everyone gets the same information, but it’s not automated.
This is just false, as we saw lots of people get 30 day suspensions dropped to 7 with the latest AFK ban wave.
No, they may not give a lighter punishment, and no one should go into an appeal expecting that.
Saying no to a customer is never the easy road. Especially WoW players who will keep complaining non-stop when they don’t get their way.
When you were given the forced name change for the same name, that was your warning. Penalties do stack, and you were reported again which is why you received the 24 hour suspension. Further violations on your account will get longer and longer suspensions up to full account closure.
This was the correct decision. 100%.
They gave you a chance to rename it, and you didn’t. Punishments get harsher when you do not change your behavior.
There is no “discourse” with account appeals. It’s not a place to plead your case, try to talk your way out of it, threaten to leave the game or get a lawyer. They look at the action and determine if the penalty was correctly applied.
And it was.
You know why. Don’t even try it.
That name has never been allowed.
People are fed up with the toxicity. It’s not cute, it’s not edgy, it’s not funny. It’s against the rules. Don’t like it? Don’t play the game.
You deserved your ban if you thought this was appropriate.
Why do you think it’s ok to make such an obviously disgusting name? There is a limit to the amount of humor you can do, and that name clearly crosses that line.
Maybe check yourself and realize you occupy this space with other people that don’t find that sort of thing amusing. If you’re going to continue to just be a clown, you’ll end up getting permabanned, and it will be well deserved.
The line has nothing to do with what you find offensive. It’s Blizzard’s game, and Blizzard’s rules. You agreed to the ToU and willingly violated it.
Don’t like it? The door is that way —>.
No, how it’s going is you are in a severe, declining minority. The majority is fed up with the toxicity, and it’s going to end, one way or another. Either you’ll change your attitude and actions, or you won’t be playing this game.
Quite frankly, Blizzard is rather soft on punishment compared to other games. Other games wouldn’t give you the chance to rename it, nor would they let you come back after 24 hours.
Now, please stop derailing this thread, so the OP can get any future questions answered.
OP, I wish you luck with your appeal, and offer my apologies for your thread being hijacked. Your thread will likely be locked up with the unnecessary derailing of someone in a different situation than you, but know it wasn’t anything you did. I know I appreciate your candor and your ownership of the situation. All the best to you.
Seems recently quite a few of the “appeal” type threads are being derailed by discussions that should be in General …
That’s not how appeals work, I’m afraid. It isn’t there for you to plead for leniency.
Then by all means, continue using it. Realize, though, that you do so at the peril of having your account banned.
Good luck with all that, and your forum access.
That’s not what the flag system is for, nor is it why it is currently being employed in relation to your posts in this thread and elsewhere.
I actually enjoy when I’ve been away for a while and think about all the times that people post here saying “Blizz never does anything…reports don’t matter…why does so-and-so get to keep their childish and inappropriate name but I have to change mine…”
Then I see a thread that’s been derailed by someone who thinks that the name they chose, which is clearly childish and inappropriate and a violation of the rules, complaining that they also got actioned but chose the same inappropriate name again because they didn’t see why not…
Life can sometimes hand you the lemonade before you even have to squeeze the lemons and for that, I’m grateful.
I appreciate this response. They answered after about 6 days I believe. There was no leniency given, but Im an adult and as I said in my appeal, I wouldn’t be subjecting them to anymore appeals.
Unfortunately the suspension removed my desire to stick with wrath. I made it to 77 after the suspension lifted, however much of my guild has cleared naxx and has pretty much divied out their core spots. Bad decisions were made at a critical time.
I appreciate your candor, and being a stand-up individual about it. I wish there could be leniency for your positive attitude. I do hope you’ll consider staying in the game (and following the rules, of course). Someone who acts like an adult and accepts their mistakes, and more importantly, is willing to learn from them, is very much welcome in this game by my standards.
Maybe this will help: Naxx is only the beginning for this expansion. Get to 80, gear up, and maybe there will be a place for you in Ulduar. Either way, the frost giant quests in Niffelheim and the Argent Tournament will be fun quest hubs when they are added later.