Multiboxing Ban

Long time lurker, just signed up here.This morning I received notice that my Wow accounts were banned for exploitive activity/Unauthorized programs.

Here is the truth. Like many here I run more than one account. I do not use any automated programs, no multiboxing programs and only addons from CurseForge (standard QOL things like DBM etc.) I do not log into spawn areas with multiple toon and burn down mobs for hours, never enter instances or BG with more than one toon (unless I am alone). Generally I only actually multi-box when I want to fly my 20 to some location, I hardly ever log into more than one account at a time. Everyone that gets this sort of ban says "I did not do anything wrong" but honestly, I did not.

Since I know many folks with vet twinks run more than one account, wondering if this has happened to anyone else since the patch that talked about multiboxing. I am a long time subscriber to WoW, I have played the way I describe above for multiple expansions, just me and PVE mostly, never bothering anyone. Blizz has lost its mind treating folks like this in such an arbitrary manner.

The only thing I ever did that would get me any attention is run Islands with my lvl 40 pally twink so add levels to his neck. I was never a jerk there, never pulled the entire island (unless the other two players were goofing off on the boat the entire match). I did not even take my 20s into BGs or instances with others.

No automated software, not hardware tricks, no camping spawn sites, not antics in groups...no 'nothing', and bam, ban hammer.

Anyone with a similar experience? All y'all that run multiple accounts and have toons with multiple years of history and many hours of work ought to beware.

I submitted a ticket to Blizz, but honestly unless they fix this very fast this might just be the end of Wow for me. I had everything in-game I needed wanted to play just as I wanted, a guild, all the mats, all the toons with all the specs and profs I needed to just play like I wanted and not bother anyone.
 
All y'all that run multiple accounts and have toons with multiple years of history and many hours of work ought to beware.

long long ago they allow bg boxing, i have no prob at all .. after they removed it i stop boxing .. thats like 4 or 5 years ago ? since then i run dungeons/raids using "follow", 5 accounts .. no add-on, i do it everyday, dailies .. i dont think that is violating any terms

you check with blizz what Kirise said .. someone might be using your account .. but the chance of that happening is quite low if you are using authen log in
 
If you’re truly telling the truth. Then this is a mistake. Neither twinkling nor flying yourself around on multiple accounts is bannable or even condemnable.

you can one shot the entire island or BG for all anyone cares and as long as it’s within bounds of non 3rd party software exploits. You’re fine.


I would fight it and claim your account was hacked.

Leave it to blizz to allow automated raid farming groups and have this happen.
 
Is it possible someone else broke into your accounts, and thus incurred the penalty?
Negatory, I have an authenticator, only login at home and I can still login to Battlenet with my old acct info. I was not hacked.
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If you’re truly telling the truth. Then this is a mistake. Neither twinkling nor flying yourself around on multiple accounts is bannable or even condemnable.

you can one shot the entire island or BG for all anyone cares and as long as it’s within bounds of non 3rd party software exploits. You’re fine.


I would fight it and claim your account was hacked.

Leave it to blizz to allow automated raid farming groups and have this happen.

I feel you, this is the Interwebs and people seldom tell full-truth, but honest Abe, I was just a low-key PVE dude with 4 accounts and I seldom played more than one at a time, with the occasional instance run for myself or my lock handing out health rocks to my dudes as they headed off to do their thing. I did none of the stuff that ought to raise any concerns. I did the low-key stuff I did for years.

We will see what the ticket resolution says but I suspect that if they did this to me, I will not be alone.

I was not hacked unless some powerful hack group cloned my phone and got root access to PC --- but why take my Wow and not my investment acct.....
 
is it possible you pissed off some giganerd who in turn, along with a bunch of his friends, reported you and the system then just automatically banned you?
 
when i preemptively contacted blizz about when the new rules came out telling them i welcome surveillance and guidance, that I'm only using /follow and alttab, the response was that ppl reporting me will never directly result in a ban and they always do their own investigation before issuing them.
ppl who do the multiwindow scroll wheel thing probably are harder to distinguish in their logs so they often stream what they do as evidence.
if you're telling the truth, appeal it. if you're not then bite the bullet.
 
when i preemptively contacted blizz about when the new rules came out telling them i welcome surveillance and guidance, that I'm only using /follow and alttab, the response was that ppl reporting me will never directly result in a ban and they always do their own investigation before issuing them.
ppl who do the multiwindow scroll wheel thing probably are harder to distinguish in their logs so they often stream what they do as evidence.
if you're telling the truth, appeal it. if you're not then bite the bullet.

Pally, hard to imagine I pissed anyone off, I hardly ever interact with others and as said only for a couple of islands a day with the pally, nothing else.

Hung, I operate in exactly the way you describe as your playstyle. We will see how this plays out.


I created the account here merely to report the facts as they have occurred. I am literally doing the simplest and most basic of stuff when I multi, and there is nothing else I am running or doing that is even close to questionable. There is zero credible possibility they did any investigation at all, I am doing nothing to investigate, an actual investigation would have shown that, and the only thing that could have kicked this is is my alt-tabbing too fast (or some such nonsense) or ninnys reporting me for some reason, (the latter seems the least likely) I am sure I will not the the only or last person in this boat.
 
Their new rules seem really draconian. There's this clause: "We will now additionally prohibit the use of all software and hardware mechanisms to mirror commands to multiple World of Warcraft accounts at the same time, or to automate or streamline multi-boxing in any way." that pretty much means they can ban you for like... having a fast mouse. Winterlys little scroll wheel thing he does? It could fall under that.

It sounds like you got banned unfairly. I hope your appeal is successful. But it gonna be real hard to prove you arent using just... good hardware and have speedy fingers.
 
Please keep us posted as to the appeal
[doublepost=1621706181,1621706022][/doublepost]What pisses me off is even the inclination that a twink crushing content whether that’s pvp or pve could be perceived as bannable.

The leveler mentality has gone too far IMO.
 
The first response to ticket took almost 52 hours but was not automated and not a regurgitation of "you bad, banned." I will advise further. I see breadcrumbs or reports that other multibox players were banned the same night I was, almost all I have found make the same claim I have that they only autofollow and do 1:1 button mashing, no automated anything. Some seem sincere. All of the above remains true.

Be careful out there fellows for a bit until Blizz sorts itself....I suspect even if they restore my account I have worries about my personal guild and the GB!!!! Lay low for a bit.

"This is Specialist Game Master XXXXX. Thank you for letting us know that this was unexpected to you, as we do investigate each situation as they come up to make sure that each case is actioned correctly.

I've sent your account on to our experts now for a further review of the situation.

As soon as I hear back from them about this, I'll update you here and through email."
 
Their new rules seem really draconian. There's this clause: "We will now additionally prohibit the use of all software and hardware mechanisms to mirror commands to multiple World of Warcraft accounts at the same time, or to automate or streamline multi-boxing in any way." that pretty much means they can ban you for like... having a fast mouse. Winterlys little scroll wheel thing he does? It could fall under that.

It sounds like you got banned unfairly. I hope your appeal is successful. But it gonna be real hard to prove you arent using just... good hardware and have speedy fingers.

Oh they banned hardware boxing too now. Loool

I remember these lying blizzoids were so obtrusive about it and why they did it "err we banned follow in bgs because bots", you blizzoids bots didnt get banned until 2016 and in cata and especially MoP it was so bad and all kinds of bots were running rampant and being completely out of control

brw i think i ranted about this issue like 20 times on here since 2013 lol

I wouldnt really care if they came forward and said "we banned it because we dont want you to play how you want to play and think out of the box its too disruptive to the average subhuman" except except they wanted to be sneay about it.

Oh well...i guess its for the best after all....WoW is literally becoming a danger to children since its all political and ideological now

they want to kill off all original thoughts, you just get to play as this degusting single character this..this pile of goo ...oh no cant play multiple characters , cant do that, cant be different

Ok enough rant


Btw the only way you can "multibox" or whatever now is run separate windows but its clunky AF i remember doing it on Nostalrius and vanilla servers but it probably wont work for fast paced retail pvp
 
Inno is probably right. In any event, I just received the final resolution.

Your ticket has received the following response:

"Hello again,

This is Game Master XXXX with an update. Thanks for your patience while this was looked into!

After a further review of the situation I was able to overturn these bans so you can log back in again anytime.

I apologize for the inconvenience, I wish you the best of luck with your adventures in the future!"



I will just leave this here and report back if my guild is gone and unrecoverable, if they messed up my RAF bonus or any other such nonsense. I was guilty only of playing a game I pay for the way I want! I am still salty over this!!!!


 
it was possible you got spam reported by different accounts after a certain number it auto bans/locks the account until they actually review it, they say it doesn't work like that but it does its so that they can be lazy and half ass their job
 
Inno is probably right. In any event, I just received the final resolution.

Your ticket has received the following response:

"Hello again,

This is Game Master XXXX with an update. Thanks for your patience while this was looked into!

After a further review of the situation I was able to overturn these bans so you can log back in again anytime.

I apologize for the inconvenience, I wish you the best of luck with your adventures in the future!"



I will just leave this here and report back if my guild is gone and unrecoverable, if they messed up my RAF bonus or any other such nonsense. I was guilty only of playing a game I pay for the way I want! I am still salty over this!!!!


Did they refund you game time?
 

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