I don’t have a tendency to use those sorts of language in general.
Though did call someone an Xing moron in Barrens chat like a week ago after they posted something really obnoxious.
If reported that would also be an actionable line of chat. It is toxic and profane.
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That would do it…
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I honestly thought it was related to the Gold Buying argument because the guy in Chat was actively telling people to report me for “Toxicity” due to my stance on cheating.
There’s a possibility it’s still that argument.
Hopefully the appeal clears things up a bit.
I’m more curious than anything.
This is the first time I’ve ever had my account actioned for any reason.
Is it normally a 1 week silence on your first ever offense?
Even cheaters(Gold buyers) only get a 24/48h vacation the first time.
That’s the new standard now, next it moves to a week suspension for the next chat infraction. Before, the message wasn’t getting to players, so Blizzard decided to play hardball.
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I wish they’d take that stance with Cheaters(Gold Buyers) instead of the slap on the wrist they get.
Should be account closure on the first offense none of this “We take your gold and anything you bought with it away” stuff with a suspension.
If you want to offer suggestions, then you can use the in-game suggestion box. The forums isn’t to soapbox your stands.
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They do. You will just never know what the specific result is, as it is not any of your concern, not being the affected party.
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Yep, and the next one is a one week suspension. It increases exponentially from there, doubling with each subsequent chat violation.
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They clearly don’t or RMTs wouldn’t exist at all.
Nobody would take that risk if it meant losing their level 60 the first time they bought gold.
Coming to the forums and blaming blizzard on something they do their best to fight against. Does not help your appeal processes quicker. It is a 7 day silence. Great time to level up your character.
Be thankful it is what it is at the moment.
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This is a multi bililion dollar not a typo black market industry with thousands if not hundreds of thousands stolen accouns as long as there stupid and people looking for the easy way out there will be cockroaches that will take advantage of the stupid.
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Hire a few GMs at a living wage for every active server cluster and have them fly around looking for bots and fly hackers farming black lotuses in EPL.
Our subs more than pay for server rental fees and could absolutely be used to fund active anti-botting instead of relying an on apathetic player base that thinks the reporting system doesn’t work.
Problem 90% solved.
Just FYI. Masked profanity (including acronyms) is also prohibited. Even using a bunch of symbols is considered the smae. It doesn’t matter how you consider it, it’s against the rules and has been since 2004.
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No thats not productive and not effient that would make subscriptions go higher they tried monitoring chat one that went south faster then thanksgiving gravy.Reporting is 100 more effective then monitoring.
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While it seems this conversation you’re assuming was the culprit isn’t - this too can get you in trouble. It can be considered harassment. ESPECIALLY since you are calling them out for other people to report potentially. Report people you think are botting and move on. Calling them out in General or any other chat can be considered a form of harassment if you’re wrong about a presumed bot and it’s a legit player. Or if someone who is botting wants to report you for harassment in that vein.
Have your conversations all you’d like, but you’re putting a target on folks that may or may not be bots and that can catch up to you as player harassment.
No, this isn’t me siding with the bots or having any kind of thoughts about the situation. It’s just a warning so you don’t find yourself in even more trouble should folks start reporting you for this too, beyond what Orlyia mentioned.
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Why are you worried about other people’s accounts? You broke the rules and are now trying to…divert the issues to botters? I don’t understand the leap here, but regardless you will NEVER know what happens to someone else’s account. Report the botters and go about your day. Don’t go on some unhinged rant here about bots, because quite literally no one here can help that matter.
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You do realize ur silence and the dozen of threads claiming false bans and silences prove the system work right.
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No…absolutely no. You have no idea how things work. The hacks team does a LOT of behind the scenes work that you don’t see. You don’t have people “fly around and look for cheaters”. Azeroth is not a real place, and botting is not detected by having people “watch” like they’re watching a real life location.
And actually they did an experiment once on one server with monitoring specific chat channels. It didn’t go how you think. In fact it made chat reports go way down because everyone thought “they are watching, I don’t need to report”. And it made the server MUCH more toxic. They never did anything like that again.
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We do, but you’ll seldom hear from folks that get suspended for that - or that they had all the ill-gotten gains removed, or wake up naked because they spent it all on gear and that was recouped.
That has to be embarrassing.
But even worse than what Blizzard may do - what the gold sellers can, and indeed indulge in is 1000x worse. Identity theft. Credit card fraud being just two of the many things that are seen on a semi-regular basis. These folks aren’t just breaking OUR rules, they are real world criminals. And will cheerfully steal anything that they can that isn’t nailed down, including at times accounts - or the gold that was just delivered.
While I truly appreciate the messages I saw you delivering in-game, such things are best not broadcast wildly. Those that have no intention of doing so can get annoyed, and those that do indulge…you aren’t going to change their mind until they inevitably run into the consequences of their actions. Such discussions are best reserved for your friends and guildmates, those that will take it in the spirit in which it is given.
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