The new AH bans is the biggest embarrassment in a while

[Vegan-magtheridon]

@Natalyi-illidan

What makes me even angrier is seeing all the Gold Text posters damage controlling this. Blizzard reps won’t even come out and say anything and the only Gold Text we see is just damage control like (paraphrasing) “It’s impossible to test all outcomes!”

Found one for you:

@Maizou-proudmoore

This is just an optimization issue that Blizzard will eventually fix I’m sure.

LOL

[Maplëshot-stormrage]

anyone that tried to exploit millions of gold should be banned. Its in the TOS for that type of stuff. WoW has their own economy with the WoW token and Blizzard currency so they dont want that to get more messed up than it already is.

Just be like all the other gold “farmers” and make a bot account to farm the AH with posting scripts and buying scripts because WoW ignores those types of people.

[Vincent-nathrezim]

@Kennie-malganis

“Whoops I accidentally duped millions of gold multiple times, officer”

I mean, to be fair this excuse worked on New World.

[Tanana-argent-dawn]

100% you cant give the 1st few days of a patch back

[Amorix-illidan]

@Perl-anetheron

account. A lock is just preventing people from accessing their accounts, but has no negative condonation to go with it. They’re not in trouble for having their accounts “Locked”.

When you’re done playing with semantics, please tell the people that cannot access an account they are paying for through no fault of their own that it’s ok, because it’s only a lock, not a suspension.

[Rãtçhet-area-52]

@Natalyi-illidan

I was not banned myself. But I was weary enough to NOT use the auction house to sell anything during all these changes. That’s a huge problem though, because it’s entirely at fault of Blizzard. If players have to go into a untrustworthy mindset, and you do something like this that even further confirms it? What kind of image are you creating?

I know people are talking about this already but NOT ENOUGH. This is a BIG mistake by Blizzard and they are sweep banning people who were unaware of a bug that they OVERLOOKED in a 8+ HOUR maintenance day.

You better give these players massive compensations.

whast the ban/suspension for anyway?

[Pyromor-shandris (Pyromor)]

As far as I know when you cancel a trade in the AH you’re not refunded the gold back to you that is a loss you just have to put up with,well the bug as far as I can tell give it back and kept giving,for some this an accident to others it was a blessing ,keep the gold coming and made lots of it.

[Mirasol-mannoroth (Mirasol)]

@Rãtçhet-area-52

whast the ban/suspension for anyway?

They were not banned or suspended.

After the patch on Tuesday to massively change the AH, it was bugged and providing lots of gold it should not have been.

See this bug report thread.

Bug: Receiving payout for cancelled auctions

Issue Gold being paid out for cancelled auctions. Consistency is unknown; this has happened multiple times at time of post. Steps to replicate List commodity auction Cancel commodity auction At this point, I would expect to receive the item in the mail. This did occur. However, a little while later I received also this: [Image of money received for a cancelled auction] This has occurred with multiple auctions; my first verified receipt was a Gluttonous Feast. I can verify that I had at …

Blizzard quickly closed the AH for a few hours to try to fix it. Some players who were impacted, through no fault of their own (in most cases), had their accounts locked.

9.2.7 Auction House is Temporarily Closed

Update 8:30 p.m. PDT We’re very close to finished with the part of the fix that required we keep the AH closed. The AH should open up on all realms in the next few minutes. As we take further steps to return player accounts to their previous condition, a very small number of players will be locked out of their characters for an additional time. We’ll return them to availability as quickly as possible. Again, we thank you for your patience. Update 6:45 p.m. PDT We were able to determine the …

The locked accounts can not play right now and are undergoing what I suspect is a manual review to reverse damage. Any subscription on the account was removed to prevent billing while the account can’t be played.

Those accounts that abused the bug to exploit it may end up with a suspension, but right now that has not happened.

There is no ETA on when the locked accounts will be freed up again. Hopefully they provide compensation to those impacted players. This was not their fault and they deserve at least game time, if not more. That decision will be made about what compensation, or how much, after they know the duration of the locks and come up with a policy.