BG Ban wave. Blizzard needs to address this

A large number of people who took advantage of prepatch to play AV are being banned. There is no way this amount of people afk’d/non participated the battleground. Your system is broken and needs to be fixed. The rules need changed.

Perhaps we can get a blue post to tell us how we are getting banned? People are now actively avoiding doing pvp at all because they are afraid of getting falsely banned. People are afraid to defend towers/bunkers in av now.

Note: Customer support said to make threads in this forum instead of CS if we believe something needs changed. Please stop locking these threads as were are literally being told to make them here.

If you were caught up in this ban wave be sure to appeal using the link below.
If your appeal was answered and you were unbanned/kept banned please let us know!

https://battle.net/support/help/product/services/316/2011

BIG UPDATE: People are being unbanned! If you have not received an email in response to your ticket be sure to just check your account and try to log in. Some people are not getting emails but their accounts have been unbanned.

I have personally been unbanned as of 11PM EST 9/5

Another update: Blizzard has responded to the afk bans.

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This times 1000

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They should appeal if they are truly innocent.

You and I both do not know who is guilty and who is innocent. All I will say is a lot of people are AFKing BGs as of late.

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They won’t even admit there’s an AH problem (bad coding), nor the servers are running on 2012 tech.

Good luck having them admit anything

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Makes me not want to pvp tbh. or really play the game.

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Blizz should also be quicker about the appeal not 6 days later just saying.

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Appeals take time because they are thorough investigations. Would you rather them uphold false positives?

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Innocent people should not have to appeal

It takes time
you lose game time
and it’s extremely aggravating (no one innocent should be banned due to a TRASH system, and yes, it’s automated; ie; so many people at ONCE)

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It is a crapshoot. People getting banned for rushing vann, people getting banned for going shb and iwb and then north when they cap. People getting banned for killing other players in field of strife. If you played double digit hours of av a ban is likely.

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6 days is a bit much don’t you think ? and if they find its false you’re one week behind everyone else that’s not acceptable in any world.

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don’t waste your time on that guy

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It is a thousand percent possible because I have to report about 4 people each AV for AFKing in harpy caves or in the dwarf building basements

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Innocent players in this really get the shaft. Take however long to appeal and get un banned when you literally did nothing wrong. Sounds like awesome customer service.

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I’d rather guilty players go free than innocent players get locked out especially during this limited time event stuff.

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I don’t plan to.

I know he’s literally 16, and doesn’t know the definition of straw-man even, lol

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I’m glad they are banning this instead of the 100s of rogue bots in ramps every day

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Were they banned for placing Death Gates, Mage Portals, Dark Iron Tunnelers in the BG entrance before the game?

Because people are being banned for that because people accidentally click on it and get booted with 15 min deserter debuff.

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Honestly,

I’ve had better service at the Wal-Mart deli

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dude you have said the same thing 20 times and its not what we are even talking about

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Maybe 1-10%. That’s a percentage I’m fine with