I was recently banned for 6 months for “cheating”, but I have never cheated before in WoW. I have been asking them for evidence or a valid cause to ban me for this, but I have gotten only automated responses from them. Can someone help me get them to share why they banned me with evidence?
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They will never tell u what caused u to get flagged that would be a gold mine of information to the bot and cheat makers. Every apeal handled by a real person.
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They should tell me. They have no reason to ban me. This is the first message they received, and I want to know what “programs” I happened to use that caused my ban.
NOTICE OF ACCOUNT CLOSURE
Greetings,
We have closed this game account due to exploitative activity involving unauthorized cheat programs (commonly known as hacks).
- Game Account Name: WOW#2
- Account Action: Account Closure
- Offense: Exploitative Activity: Unauthorized Cheat Programs (Hacks)
The use of unauthorized cheat programs undermines the integrity of the World of Warcraft game environment by granting unfair advantages that are not attainable through normal gameplay.
It’s important to note:
- The account holder is responsible for all activities associated with the account.
- Our decision to close the account was made after a thorough review of relevant evidence.
- We take such actions to safeguard our players and the integrity of our service, in accordance with our [Blizzard End-User License Agreement] (EULA).
We understand that this decision may be disappointing. Our support team might not overturn these closures and might not respond to appeals. For further details, you can refer to [Appealing a Silence, Suspension, or Ban] on this matter.
If you suspect that your account has been compromised, follow these [Securing a Battle.net Account] promptly.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.
Regards,
Blizzard Entertainment
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They wont plain and simple.
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That would be information the ones that cheat in the game would love to get their grimy little mitts on so they will never tell or show you evidence of what you got suspended or banned for.
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Our department that looks for cheats/hacks knows this information - CS does not.
Even if we did, we could not share it.
There is nothing the folks that make cheats would love more than knowing what was detected.
This was a ban. You appealed, we overturned it to a 6 month suspension.
That doesn’t mean the detection was wrong, this was a second chance.
You aren’t allowed to automate anything in WoW, nothing. While addons are allowed, it must exist totally on it’s own, within the space allowed for addons to function.
Nothing is allowed in the way of macros that cannot be performed within the game itself, i.e., one keystroke, one action.
You also don’t want anything active that could be used to automate - even if you aren’t using it. You can review any programs that may be active in memory through Task Manager.
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Well, I believe that the detection was wrong. I have not automated anything before. My add-ons are all through Curseforge. I do not use macros, and I do not have anything active at any time that can be used to automate anything. I believe that my ban should be re-looked over again.
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Your only recourse if you believe there was an error is the appeals process. The staff here are not GMs or the Hacks team and cannot overturn anything
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This was already extensively reviewed at the highest level, Beastmode.
That’s why it got reduced.
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Well I think that there was an error in the appeal process, and they should extensively review it again. If they could at least make it a little more clearer as to why I was banned, it would be much better. I have never used any of the programs, and I just virus checked and checked all across my system and I literally do not have anything on here that would trigger it. I would even let them come on here and look through my system to review it.
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Youve gone as far as you can the fact that they reduced it shows they showed clemencies but there not gona do it again.
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Well they need to reduce it even more as I have extensively reviewed my computer and I have found NOTHING that can possibly trigger the anti-cheat.
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Then apeal they wont do it via forums.
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just do not do it again. i kept my addon off all times. do not use cheats. you do, well that is a penalty. that is your fault. now you have to wait. go do something else while you wait till that is over.
Addons will not cause a ban anything from curseforge is safe id it wasnt blizzard breaks them fast. Biggest thing that gets people is autohot key they use for work thats still banable if on ur system.
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there is nothing i can do to help. that is it. not all of us are perfect here to do recently.
Hate to say it but what if you did get another review and it ended up being a Total closure of the account. Be careful what you ask for because you may not like what happens next. And I have seen hundreds of people come to these forums saying basically the same as you “I’m innocent “ nine times out of ten a blue comes along and points out exactly what bad thing said person had done and it was justified.
If there is nothing on your computer then thats good. Just some programs used for work could cause things like this. Autohot key is a big one, Some program that will keep you from going afk?
Do you multibox? Anything that streamlines in anyway is also not allowed. They will never tell you exactly what was detected. Just has to be on your system and active!
Also does anyone else use your computer and play on your account? If so I would have a talk with them.
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Like most folks said they will never tell you what exactly caused the ban but you were given a huge hint to what caused it.
Relook at all your programs. Also it is wise to not play WoW on a work computer a lot of programs required for people to work will get you banned do to automating things for work efficiency.
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Dude you lucked out on this one. Especially since you just went public with this.
Review the addons you have, Freeze Task manager with CTRL and close any applications that alter, automate ANYTHING.
If you cant do that (I.E Work machine, Public Machine, ETC) Then stop use of device.
You AGREE to the thing you should ABSOLUTELY be reading.
Blizzard should not by any means be giving you any info. I do not want to deal with people who maliciously exploit in game, and social engineer to obtain exploit knowledge.
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