Let’s be honest here. How many people actually read up to play the game? Think about all the people who come into raids not knowing mechanics.
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a good percentage of players dont ever read forums or wowhead. they just play the game too
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Read the ToS… And I’m sure the ppl exploiting did way more than they were supposed too
It’s illegal to exploit stuff. They did. Got banned. Oh well!
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Ok, so maybe it makes sense for people who constantly abused it. But to ban someone for 7 days for doing it one time? Not to mention people are constantly doing dungeons, raids, bgs… they just finished one, opened tailoring and noticed its off cd like “oh cool, its reset” and now they are banned for it.
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I’m willing to say most people who got banned egregiously did it… making thousands when they should have only made dozens or something.
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I did say that if you honestly made a mistake you should appeal. But if they can look at see you were zoning in and out of instances to reset the cool down, you are just better off keeping your mouth shut.
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I would rather a dozen exploiters get a light sentence than a single new player get a heavy one. It’s just empathy.
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Let’s also be honest if you’re trying to craft multiple of an item and there’s a cooldown you will notice you aren’t crafting anymore and most will look and see it’s on cd.
No one would start entering / exiting instances multiple times to start crafting an item again.
I also think it’s obvious from Blizzard’s end who utilized it as an exploit and those who over random course of gameplay realized they could do it (former likely has 100s of the item made, latter has a few made).
Regardless, 1 week ban is not the end of your existence if one were to be caught up in what happened.
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You will still be banned for multiple days for doing something you thought was working properly. My main point being, what can i do safely now? If i think something is working as intended, like killing the world boss, i can get banned for it.
I killed the world boss today and didn’t get the world quest reward. What if i killed him a second time to get the reward and it gave me loot a second time and they banned me for it? Id be beyond pissed
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Huge miss by Blizzard on this. They should’ve just reset people’s gains and not banned them for their own mistake.
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7 days is a long time when ive done nothing wrong, especially since this is the only game i play and the only thing i ever really do with my free time.
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if it says you get a cooldown and it doesn’t give you one - that is an obvious bug.
If its not on cooldown, even if it was before, some might assume that reset was intentional or think they hadnt used the cooldown. Ive heard you can make 7. Maybe i thought i didnt make all 7. Maybe i thought “i thought i used up the cooldown, but its not on cooldown, so ill make another.” Maybe i thought the cooldown period wasnt as long as i originally thought it was. Idk, but whatever the case, banning someone for unintentionally utilizing a bug that they thought was working properly is not ok
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How is there not more outrage in the forums? Blizz really messed up. This is ridiculous for so many honest people.
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You know what they say about assumptions. Never leaving one on the stove boiling when you run to the store.
I’m not buying anyone was banned over tailoring.
that isn’t the people who got banned - the people who got banned are the ones blizzard was sure was abusing it.
Many people got banned who had only done it a handful of times by mistake. Ik 2 people who only did it one time and got 7 day bans each.
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yeah right - so they say
Yea the people who got banned definitely knows its an exploit but kept doing it
It’s the same thing with the Repeatable weekly quest. They didn’t ban people who only complete it once. Only those that kept repeating the quest received a ban and some 402 gear were rolled back as well.