Banned for 6 months for Botting/Third Party software I never used?

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Yeah but what about my money I am paying for this game. What about the Darkshore quest I am missing out on my alts for lvl 400 gear?

This is a PITA, alot of people are getting hit with this, not just chinese botters.

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To be clear, if there was a ‘ban wave’, it was very much intentional, but there is the possibility some innocent players may have been mistakenly swept up in it.

I’d be curious if any of these posters use a VPN to lower their ping.

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Speaking for myself i dont use a VPN or anything similar. The only add-ons i use are Deadly Boss Mods and Details.

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If your appeal is successful, they will typically reimburse lost time, but not items you might have gotten without the suspension.

If it’s upheld, then you’re welcome to appeal until they tell you no further appeals will be heard.

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That turns back around to my comment about integrity in my first post. Their integrity would mean jack squat if they lessened the consequences doled out for any form of cheating, depending on how much a player has poured into their finance bracket.

And I can only reiterate the other thing that I said in that same post-- false positives have been known to happen. But there will be no speculation or delivery of such examinations here, only with the ticket you filed.

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Raider in my guild was banned for 6 months, I am btag friends with him and he’s never on outside of raid much. Barely plays this game (like many people) right now because of lack of stuff to do, almost always on FFXIV atm.

However, I bet the druid bot trains running through the Tiragarde river herb route are still going strong!

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Just to further expand on what I said earlier:

Suspensions of this type aren’t limited to just using illegal bot software. Many times it is due to someone creating a macro outside of the game to automate spellcasting or other abilities.

For example:

  • Upon pressing M1 key on keyboard: Spell 1 casts, wait 3 seconds, spell 2 casts. This is not allowed.
  • Upon pressing M1 key on keyboard: Summon mount. This is okay.

One action for one single key press.

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Yeah, cool. Great.
I don’t do that either.

My middle mouse button is broken and sometimes registers anywhere between 1 and 4 clicks when I press it, though. But only sometimes. It’s a mystery.

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Yep, me and several acquaintances got banned too. Until I noticed the duration, I thought I got hacked again (once got a 3-day ban cuz someone hacked my account, though all they really did was ruin all my keybindings and tool bars).

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Alright, so the only thing left to do is to file an appeal if you haven’t already. If you have filed an appeal, then all you can do is wait for the results.

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If you appealed it, it would have been overturned and have nothing at all to do with future/current actions on your account. The only thing that people can do is appeal the account action via a ticket. Not via the forums.

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i don’t use VPN
i use the twitch app to update addons
weak auras and bigwigs are the only ones i do manually from the webpage

got banned for 6 months.

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I mean, am I getting my game time I PAID FOR back since I am unable to play to due a mistake on their part. That is what I am referencing.

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You would need to put in a ticket and appeal Ippy. If it’s overturned, then you don’t lose that game time.

If it’s upheld, then yes the game time is lost.

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If they end up upholding the ban on my account after I appeal I don’t think I’m going to bother coming back to the game in 6 months. This is going to be a massive setback to any progress I’d have made in the game. Just not worth it. =/ Guess I’ll find something else to play.

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I’m not sure how many times I want to say the same thing, to be honest. :confused:

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Same thing.

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If they uphold it, that would indicate that they have evidence of illicit actions on the account.

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That’s not true, their email even says they might not bother reading the appeal.

Our support staff will not overturn this penalty and may not respond to appeals.

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Dude, we know you just used a morpher, it’s ok.

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