Does Blizzard ever unban wow accounts?

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Now before anyone jumps in with the you got a 24 hours suspension, then a 72 hours suspension, before it would ever get to a permanent ban, so why would they think you would change now thing – I did not, I will admit to my crime, I ran a bot to farm mats for early Cataclysm raiding, ie - darkmoon cards, and fishes for feasts. This was met with a permanent ban right off the bat. I’m not saying I didn’t deserve it, I was breaking the EULA.

Okay so with that out of the way, I have continued to play for the past 8 years after the ban with no misconduct of any kind. I know what I did was stupid, who risks an account you’ve played on since opening day just to make mat collecting a little easier, well I suppose I didn’t think through to the consequences. Other players had told me of 24 hr and 72 hr suspensions for running fishing bots, so I thought I’d risk it and if I got a slap for it I’d stop.

Sadly I had a lot of fun stuff on that account that you can’t get in the game anymore, and running Cata timewalkers this week I felt nostalgia kicking in and wondered if anyone had ever been given a pardon, or a second chance? Petitioning the GMs falls on deaf ears, and rightfully so, I was bad I got punished, it’s been 8 years though, I just want to log in for my mounts really. :grinning:

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Tickets are the only way Buuuut

Ask the CS section…

Warning prepare to be battered :rofl:

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“Permanent Ban.”

The only time they’ve overturned one, was when it was a timely thing where policy changed/they saw that they were wrong.

I’ve only used the Linux operating system, being Windows free, since the Burning Crusade expansion. I seem to recall that something to do with the way that Linux runs, gave them some false positives which caused the to ban/perm ban(can’t recall which) some people; This was later overturned, in a reasonable amount of time, when they saw it was false positives.

When they gave you one for botting, which as you say actually happened, then “no.”

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Hrm, good idea. Should of just posted there to begin with. :laughing:

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The only time Blizzard will overturn a permaban is if it turns out they wrongfully banned you or there’s a chance they wrongfully banned you. Since you yourself even admit you were doing the thing they banned you for, then there’s absolutely no chance they will lift that permaban.

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Under certain circumstances I think they will, pending investigation.

You can dispute an account ban and they will at least investigate.