The difference between my main bnety and my alts is that all 300 characters on my main hang out in the same spot all day long, only they log in maybe 40 seconds every hour, but they’re always logging in at the same spot. For my alts, they’re spread all over the world because they don’t have a brutosaur. They can’t be targeted like the main accounts can.
I mean, that is going to look like botting to nearly anyone, including Blizzard, if it is as regularly timed as you say it is. How do you even rotate 300 chars on that account every hour? Much less the alt accounts?
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I really do mean this as kindly as I possibly can emphasize through text but honestly? You’re making that assumption that another player out there really cares that much about what you’re doing? You’re another faceless player in an ocean of faceless players.
The only time we see someone focusing that much on another person is when they’re battling the AH for supremacy or if it’s the case of someone fish-botting or something along those lines for days and weeks on end. Of course there are the cases of stalking and harassment but if you’re just playing the game, that’s really leaning heavily on someone actually caring that much about who you are and what you’re doing. Most people cannot be bothered.
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It’s not all 300 that log in but around 30?
I log in, check ah, log out, move to the next server. I’ve done it for years at this point, around the time Covid hit. It’s a lot of clicking between multiple game windows and using macros like /logout to make it go faster. I’ve gotten really good at handling it all but like I said, it would easily look like a bot if someone saw 10 brutosaur log in for a few seconds then log out all in the same zone.
I thought about moving them all to Boralus but knew this situation would happen, I’d get reported by everyone then banned.
Someone over Discord messaged another player about my characters activity. They used the API and a pvp addon to track every time I logged in and out of the game, and sent a log of it via DMS. They’ve also made a bunch of characters on the same faction and have moved them to the area my characters are in. I have proof on Discord with chat logs but Blizzard doesn’t accept this as evidence. I’ve been dealing with this for a while now. I’ve made someone very mad with my addiction to the auction house.
I even reported the API mess to Blizzard and they wouldn’t take the time to look into it. There are logs out there of someone querying my character’s names but Blizzard just doesn’t care.
That’s the one thing I can believe at least. People are insane when it comes to creepy levels of stalking or harassment over AH. I’ve seen it numerous times where people would ask others in trade chat to mass report someone or ask an entire guild of theirs to report someone.
I’ve even seen people send out a dedicated toon just to /follow someone while emoting and cursing at them all week. My favorite are the ones that hop onto 50 different throwaway toons just to DM hatred.
I had hoped to rely on Blizzard’s logs to help me with this problem but they really don’t give a damn.
Just to touch on this. The API only returns the date and time a character profile was updated, which usually coincides with when the character was logged out. The API does not track when a character is logged in, and I would suspect that’s a protected function with the in-game API as well (Lua addons).
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Yes, they were using it to track whenever I would log out. They had logs over the span of two weeks of all my characters. It was creepy. After I turned the API off, they installed a pvp addon to scan the zone I was in and printed that to a txt file.
You are not going to get anywhere with it tonight, that is certain. The Forum Support Agents are all off work so they can’t even give you any insight. If a deeper investigation happens, it may need to take several appeals and a week or more of time.
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How do I not get locked from making appeals, though? I can type all the heartfelt messages I want but at a point, they’re going to tell me to stop or they’ll ban me for good. I don’t want to harass them but I also don’t want to lose all of my auctions because I was falsely banned. I’ve worked very hard for everything I own, this is devastating just because some sociopath wants to endlessly harass me.
You can send in appeals until they say that sending further appeals may result in an account action. To be on the safe side, I would wait a few days after receiving a reply to one before sending in another.
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That means nothing if the account is gone permanantly. The most logical method is to appeal, explain why you think is a false positive, ask for a detailed log review. The first is auto denied. Second may be escalated up. Wait for it to come back, then appeal again if needed.
You are trying to prove you are the one needle in a haystack of cheaters that is actually gold. Not easy to do. Patience, be polite. If they tell you never again - you will know it. They have a rather firm message when it gets to that point.
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OP, out of process means they don’t have to be running. If they are on your system, they can be detected.
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Then it should have been detected 2 years ago. Again, why are my alts not also banned? IF they aren’t banned in a week, something’s up.
At least I’ve been able to confirm that my connection issues and client crashes aren’t related to all of the clients running at once.
Arguing here is pointless, The staff are not gonna give you insight on how and why you was suspended. File your appeal and wait for it.
In all reality, this thread gonna be locked at some point as we are not allowed to have discussion about being silenced, suspended or banned.
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Will they give me a log review? What even is that?
They wouldn’t give the logs to you, they would just review the logs(details) concerning your suspension again.
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It means having a specialist review the logs Blizzard has. They won’t let you see anything or share anything with you.
Sorry for delays. I did the sleep thing.
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I found another case that’s similar to mine but they had a history of using multibox software.
The more I read, the more I’m convinced they won’t bother with me.
Just to nip the seed in the bud: Any other person you may find won’t be like yours. You have no idea what happened to their account, what was found, nor the real end result of them.
I’m not trying to be mean or anything, but once we get into ‘this thing happen here, must mean I may this had this outcome, too’ it’d be a snowball affect.
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