I would like clarification on a recent 3 day suspension received. This action was related to WoW Season of Discovery – while I was running Gnomergan raid earlier today, I received a message from a GM in-game (pretty cool as I have not seen this since original vanilla wow). He stated that my account had been selected for disruptive game-play, and that I would be disconnected shortly. I responded to the GM in-game, asking what my account would be suspended/disconnected for, but the GM never responded and had ended the conversation/logged off shortly after sending me a message in-game.
I was subsequently disconnected mid-raid, and then received the whole email stating
"Violation: Disruptive Gameplay
Your fellow players reported you for a gameplay offense that is in violation of the Blizzard EULA and/or Code of Conduct. After a thorough investigation of the evidence, we have Suspended your World of Warcraft account.
As the owner of this account, you are responsible for all actions associated with it. We will only overturn penalties if there is evidence of a compromised account or similar extenuating circumstances."
I have sent an appeal (Ticket Number: US97802816), as I virtually have no information on why I was suspended for 3 days. No response from the Game Master in-game, even after I responded back to him within a few seconds while I was mid raid.
My assumption is that it may be a false/mistaken suspension? The previous day, I had sent a player report on a player that was verbally harassing others in Orgrimmar, so I am not sure if there was some sort of mix-up between the reported player and my own character. I also PvP quite often (whether STV or BGs/mainly AB), so I am not sure if players are reporting for griefing/killing them during PvP – this seems to be the case with the last mistaken “disruptive gameplay suspension” post earlier.
Any clarity on the above would be much appreciated!
Unfortunately the GM would not have responded to you directly, but you did receive the email so at least we (Your fellow players, which I am only one of) know the email system is sending out anyway.
Your placing the appeal is the correct thing to do. They probably will not be able to give much information, perhaps a Moderator can, we’ll see.
it could be spam or language, and the wrong template was used, but that will usually fall under abusive language. Good luck on your appeal though.
I have seen reports get actioned backwards before, but it was for things said using a Role Play Addon. The way it reports things makes it hard for GMs to sort out which to action and it sometimes comes out backwards. It also gets actioned as disruptive gameplay instead of a chat infraction.
I am not a Blue and can’t see your account, but that MIGHT be a possibility if you are on an RP server and use the RP addon.
Yes, really not sure what was considered as Disruptive Gameplay. I rarely use profanity in-game (especially in public chat), so I dont think it would fall under abusive language. Wondering if this could be PVP/flase griefing related, or something else.
Just sad its kind of messed up this weeks raid lock-out, as I am now saved to a raid ID that I was disconnected from mid raid
When you make a character named parsechecker (on an rp realm)- then proceed to hold court in Trade Chat - and ridicule people, yeah - that’s disruptive when it’s on this level.
Personally - I’d have went with spam, it’s just as valid - but that is what this is about.
Thanks for clarification on this! if it is chat/spam related, wouldn’t a silence be a more appropriate action rather than a suspension for gameplay disruption?
Depends on the history of your account (even possible actions from many many years ago), and the severity. A punishment is not meant to be something you find acceptable or appropriate. It’s meant to deter the behavior, and make sure it doesn’t happen again.
They tried that in the past but It was not very effective. What you where doing was a lot more then just spaming. They have been uping the time they suspend people and if you did this again it would go up in time.
So this would be spaming, Plus the name violation on a RP server. Yes on a rp server that name would be a violation.
Yeah looking back at the currently suspended account (I believe I had it since about end of TBC Classic), I don’t believe there were any previous silences received on it.
But fair enough, I can also understand if a phrase name goes against naming for RP servers. I was technically trying to RP a Parsechecker in game though
Rp being to RP a world of warcraft character not a parschecker. They should give you a chance to rename that character if not you should put in a ticket and self report the character to get the name changed.
