This doesn’t apply to me, but in the past, there was a hidden phone number a person could call to speak to a GM and get unbanned. Somebody pulled it from a directory listing and posted it publically via Reddit years back.
From what I recall, it sent you to an automated system that dumped you into a call queue to be picked up on.
Maybe that should be posted here to help those unjustly banned?
There is a high likelihood that you were, in fact, not unjustly banned. Blizzard doesn’t just throw around punishments like candy. There would have been a high probability of some fishy stuff going on. Your best bet would be to try and appeal your punishment. If you’d like to appeal your punishment then you can do so by clicking on this link for more info:
I would suggest that next time you watch what you do in-game more carefully, especially if you were cheating, as Blizzard doesn’t take that kind of nonsense lightly. To answer your question though, no there is no phone number that is used to appeal punishments. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
They DO ban innocent players though. Often. They seem to put flags on large money transfers, and I’ve seen a lot of GDKP run leaders get the banhammer, then have it overturned when they can finally work their way through Blizzard’s awful customer service
It looks like you are responding to the wrong post. Nobody was banned in this thread.
Not often, no. Accidents happen but not often.
A flag is not a ban.
They ban innocent players often enough to need a system that will overturn those wrongful bans. They don’t have one. As of right now if you try to appeal a ban you are sent an automated message saying it won’t be overturned and if you keep pursuing a review they’ll action your account further.
I’ve had 3 GDKP leaders on my realm and faction alone catch 6 month bans for RMT, and all 3 had it overturned after a week of spamming Blizzard with emails, tickets and posts on reddit/forums.
I’ve had a guildie catch a ban because he sent his alt on his other account 2kg. He had it overturned in about 2 weeks of stress and spam to Blizzard, and as he was unbanned another guildie has just been banned for RMT. He said he thinks it’s because he sent money to an alt on a separate account so he could pay for boosts.
These are just examples that I’ve personally witnessed and can attest to. What you’re saying is just flat wrong. Blizzard wrongfully bans people often enough to need a better system in place for appeals.
Doesn’t seem to be a callback option or any live chat at the moment. Just appeal tickets with copy/paste responses.
Just because you know people that were banned doesn’t mean they were innocent and were unjustly banned. lol
They have one, the appeal system. That’s literally what it’s designed for.
I do believe it happens. I do not believe it happens often. What is far more likely is that your friend that swears he doesn’t cheat is actually cheating.
They don’t.
If you attempt to appeal, you get threatened with a permanent or extended ban. That is not how an appeal system works.
Uh yeah, my guildie who was unbanned 2 weeks ago got banned again for farming another 10k linen using 4 accounts and autohotkey which blizz is on record as stating is perfectly within TOS.
he was banned at 3 am last night. yeah, sure, someone on the Classic WoW team definitely reviewed his “flag” and banned him at 3 am. Sure. Sarcasm off. These are literally just automated bans at this point. Its amazing how many bootlickers will defend a game company for no reason. I dont hold it against Blizz, except perhaps streamline your appeals process because atm its horrible. If youre going to automate ban a bunch of innocent people every weekend, be ready to answer the damn phone and have someone look at the facts of each case. Right now, they dont have that.
If he uses autohotkey to bot then ban = justified. If 1 human pressed keystroke = more than 1 in game keystroke then ban = justified. If no keystroke results in ingame keystroke then ban = justified.
If he was using autohotkey for 1 human pressed keystroke = 1 keystroke in game, with zero automation, then ban was not justified.
per client, its one button press equals one keystroke. this is allowed. the funny thing is only one of his accounts was banned this time. So if it was for AHK then the automation missed 3 other accounts doing the same thing at the same time
Seems pretty streamlined to me.
Much like the current appeal system it seems. Except it’s TWO buttons (CTRL+C) and then clicking close ticket.
The number of people making assumptions about how others play and pretending like they know how Blizzard’s ban system works is insane. How can one be so full of themself to believe they have a better idea than anyone else?
Whether innocent or not, no one should believe that banning players should be a fully automated process with no available customer support. That’s just grossly inconsiderate by Blizzard. It just saves them fractions of pennies on the dollar and griefs their players. If it were well implemented I could see them allocating less staff towards customer service, but you can’t implement a scuffed ban system AND allocate no resources to customer service.
Honestly, even if blizzard tolerates this, do you really imagine the average player sympathizes with folks “playing” the game like that getting banned?
Um…there is no “hidden phone number” for people to call. They go through the proper channels.
why would i care about the average player? the average player doesnt have to take part in a massive effort among 150 raiders to farm 900k+ linen cloth/runecloth/peacebloom ET CETERA to open up raid content. i have no idea what your post is trying to accomplish.