If crusader escaped the ban wave, most of the bans are probably legit.
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this âfalse banâ stuff is way out of hand. one way or another, you got boosted or did the boosting or just bought the mount/achieves. quit crying and lying on the forums as if it will do anything. You broke ToS & you pay
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Yep! I was caught with the same BS accusation. Blizzard has absolutely no evidence because I never did anything they stated. What is this communism ?? How can they get away with this blatant abuse of power
Sometimes you have collateral damage when youâre dropping bombs.
It doesnât mean they missed, it just means theyâd probably rather deal with the appeals because anyone who is truly guilty wouldnât bother appealing it and it would further expose them/would be a waste of time.
Sucks OP if what you say is true. Collateral stuff happens and Iâm sure youâll get it sorted out. But for the record, saying youâre wealthy a bunch of times or that you have a family is irrelevant. No one cares and even if you were loaded, boosting for money makes you more loaded. No one wealthy says âI donât need to make money, I have some!â Theyâre wealthy because they do a lot of things to make money lol. Obviously I nor anyone cares personally, Iâm just saying.
Also about flark, I too have ran into him in rbgs and when we won someone pointed out he was streaming and raging. I went to look and he legitimately did berate his entire team for like 20 minutes. It was absurd. Guy is like a mini crusader lol.
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I genuinely doubt anyoneâs getting banned because they played viewer RBGs at 1600-1850 with maximum 1-3 games with a random person. Thereâs not enough GMs left to be checking to see if someone might have spent $20 for 2 quick wins at 1750. This was a huge ban wave and there seems to be about 100 fingers being pointed around. There was some def shenanigans going around lately at the upper brackets.
I donât know much about the streamers specific cases, but Iâve been in the âin crowdâ of people doing last minute pushes for title spots for rank 1 and old school gladiator.
Everytime Iâve seen something like this, the culprits were chain queuing for hours, 100+ games minimum at insane local hours, like 12am-5am, and while I know people have good reasons to bash on blizzard, these particular bans almost always stem from real offenders.
In some cases additional people get caught in the wave, but from my experience the teams that handle the high profile banwaves like this take a close look at the appeals.
When I appealed during mine with a few others, text was allowed but no links, vods, or youtube clips. I was extremely specific about everything because just like most people caught in these, we had a feeling we know who it was in relation to, but although they were a good player we told them no bs.
Our bans were overturned really quickly.
Iâm not saying they donât screw up, or some people donât get swept up in these, but from my experience (even in the days where their âgmsâ took a huge cut in quantity/quality), these high profile ones get a real human eye to double check the chat logs, the queue sessions, account activity, and the input logs for those games.
Esp when theyâve shown serious leniency to full time wow only streamers in the past, if they stick thereâs definitely something they see we donât.
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Thankfully the rated pvp boosting should mostly be gone in DF due to the new gearing system.
Shadowlands pvp gearing sounded great, didnât work.
What is rmt?
And where are people finding this?
In lfg I only see websites and not people asking for tokens/gold
I tried to appeal and basically got the same message this morning that was in the original email, just starting with âUpon further investigationâŠâ
Pretty ridiculous considering I know for a fact that I did nothing, so there canât possibly be any legitimate âinvestigationâ being done. I resubbed a few weeks before the season ended as well and hadnât played for months prior.
Yea everyone that appealed got the same automated message lmfao.
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Gg blizz
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Was obviously talking about last season and seasons before thatâŠ.
Looks like they are lifting bans now.
UPDATE: My first appeal was denied, with a similar canned response most have gotten. I submitted a second appeal which was much more detailed. I included links to screen shots of my match history, chat logs from the people I had queued with during the week I had resubbed, screen shots of past achievements and dates earned, links to twitch VODS etc etc etc. Everything I could possibly think of. The sad thing is, most of this information is readily available to them if their team cared to do a proper investigation in the first place.
I received a response stating that my appeal had been escalated to their âspecial review teamâ for proper analysis as to whether a false positive had resulted in my suspension. This is somewhat hopeful, but againâŠI donât have much faith in their system given the fact that Iâm even in this position to begin with. This also makes it quite clear that these bans were handed out based on algorithms, or something of the sort. No actual human analysis seems to have been performed to decide who gets banned, or if there was it was extremely poorly done.
Iâm updating this thread because there are many others who have been wrongfully banned. I think it is disgusting the way Blizzard has willy nilly tossed out these bans, many of which are undeserved, without proper process to determine who is actually guilty. I also find it frustrating that all the awc players and high profile streamers (for the most part) have all had their suspensions IMMEDIATELY reversed, while nobodies like me are swept under the rug. Hopefully I will be able to report back soon that I have been unbanned.
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#freejerry
gl w/ appeal
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bump gl if this happened to me id be tilted
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UPDATE: Received the following email:
Greetings,
As part of our ongoing effort to combat exploitation and abusive behavior, Blizzard recently closed a World of Warcraft license on this Blizzard account.
After performing an additional review of the evidence considered in this action, weâve determined that this closure was an error. We are reopening this license for play and hope you will accept our sincere apologies for the mistake.
It is our mission to make Blizzard a fun and safe environment for all players, and we are truly sorry that we affected your experience in this fashion. We are always refining our processes and we will learn from this experience as we continue in our ongoing efforts.
We look forward to your safe return to the game, and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Regards,
Customer Service
Blizzard Entertainment
IâM FREE! Thanks to everyone who had words of encouragement. There are still a lot of people wrongfully banned. Donât give up, keep pressuring them if you know youâve done nothing wrong. Send as much detailed information as you can in your appeals. Somehow, against all odds, it can be done.
AlsoâŠto those of you who called me (and others) a liar, said I deserved it, and basically white knighted for Blizz sitting on top of your high, Rival, horses. Up yours!
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Gratz! Happy to see it was resolved <3
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Grats man, happy for you
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they didnt refund any game time now did they, but grats finally lmfao
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