Just got banned today on WoW.

So yea. I started playing WoW about 2 months ago. I managed to get my undead priest up to a 39. I used the UI mods like Auctioneer and Cartographer just to help me out along the way with co-ords and to find stuff easier at the auction. Other than that i haven't done anything else that could fall under a reasonable offence to receive a permaban. I didn't get a warning that I might have been using something that Blizzard didn't approve mainly because blizzard allows those types of mods in their game I wont lie, I am a complete noob at world of warcraft but I made sure that these were allowed in the game and I know many people that use these same mods. But somehow today I get an email that says.

Notice of Account Closure
Access to the World of Warcraft account ___, and any World of Warcraft account associated with the payment information you have provided, has been permanently disabled.  The account has been identified as having used unauthorized game modifications and thus is in violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use.  The recurring subscription on the account has been disabled to prevent further charges.

Please review the World of Warcraft Terms of Use at  which you accepted when you installed World of Warcraft and established the account(s).  Section 4, Paragraphs A and B detail the limitations of game play modifications and use of any third-party or “packet sniffing” software.

Furthermore, any activities not intended by game design which affect the economy, the client, player characters or the world itself have a tremendous negative impact on the potential enjoyment for all players.  The effects of these activities take many forms including a bloated game economy, server instability, and allowing unauthorized access to accounts, computers, and player data.

As a result, the account(s) will no longer be accessible and will unfortunately not be reopened under any circumstances.

Any disputes or questions concerning this account action can only be addressed by Account Administration. To learn more about how Account Administration is able to assist you, please visit us at

you for your understanding in this matter and respecting our position and all statutes within the World of Warcraft Terms of Use.

Regards,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment

For one I did nothing to harm anyone in the game. I didn't do anything of what they listed in the part I highlighted red. And if you go to the forums and even to the better business bureau site there are a lot of complaints on the same problem. The game masters say that they stand behind all of their bans but I see how glitchy some of their stuff can be so it makes me wonder if there isn't something wrong with their system. So until they respond to me with one of those emails which will probably just be a dead end and blame me for all the problems all I can do is just sit here and wonder what I could have possibly done to receive a permaban.

I mean if they would have given me a warning and  continued to do something and I knew about it, I guess I would understand. But they didn't do anything like that. They just ban you and laugh that they just got your money and hope you'll go buy it again so they can swindle you even more.

By the way if you can't tell, I'm in a bad mood about the situation. Kinda sucks when you spend almost 100 bucks on a game just to have them ban you without letting you know they might have a problem with something that I was unaware of. Its not like I was modding like Halo 2 or something. These didnt help me, except to let me mark certain spots on the map and give me the best price to sell stuff for at auctions.

I really hope that I can somehow get my character back.

your story makes me want get the game wow, i wanna be banned too.

You can make a new account name. So your money aint lost.

your story makes me want get the game wow, i wanna be banned too.

You can make a new account name. So your money aint lost.

19wanting

Its not that easy. Youd have to go buy the box again to get a key which is 20 bucks. Not to mention all the wasted time. And yea. I had the expansion.

dont use modification programs, haflclempire

I hate to tell you but almost everyone I know that plays this game. Including my friends, guild and other people Ive met thru where I work that Ive talked to about WoW. Use mods such as a co-ordinate mod. If you've never played this game dont come in here just to say something stupid like that. And if you are going to say something like that at least expand on it and try to sound intelligent. And yes. I do realize that if I played the game without any modifications whatsoever I'd be fine. but these were approved mods. Or mods that fit within blizzards specs. So this is why I dont get it.

NO offense but they dont just ban people for using Blizzard approved mods. EIther you left out a mod you're using or one of the mods you mentioned is not allowed by WoW.

I think the cartographer mod is now not allowed in WoW not positive though.

Sounds like you need to send a message to Account Administration. I feel your pain and i would be pissed also after spending all that money on this over priced game. I never really knew which mods were allowed so i never messed with them myself, but wanted to. I would just imagine bot mods are very unwelcomed in WoW.

NO offense but they dont just ban people for using Blizzard approved mods. EIther you left out a mod you're using or one of the mods you mentioned is not allowed by WoW.

I think the cartographer mod is now not allowed in WoW not positive though.

rushthatspeaks2

[QUOTE="flclempire"]dont use modification programs, haBlitzkrieg05

I hate to tell you but almost everyone I know that plays this game. Including my friends, guild and other people Ive met thru where I work that Ive talked to about WoW. Use mods such as a co-ordinate mod. If you've never played this game dont come in here just to say something stupid like that. And if you are going to say something like that at least expand on it and try to sound intelligent. And yes. I do realize that if I played the game without any modifications whatsoever I'd be fine. but these were approved mods. Or mods that fit within blizzards specs. So this is why I dont get it.

Yeah, I didn't know a single player that didn't use mods. Hell, there are mod disscussions on wows official forum all the time. As long as you're not botting you're fine.

Dear Topic Creator:

I hope you will take this as a sign.   Trust me on this, Blizzard just did you a favor.  With in a year or 2 ( like me ) you would have suddenly realized one day...... "wow ! what have I been doing with my life all this time ? "  And then come to the sad realization that you had spent about $150-$200 on a game, and you had NOTHING to show for it, other than a game character that has a large e-penis of L33t gear.  

This game took away a year and a half of my life, and I so wish I had that time back.  After dealing with all the frustrations of the game, and the gold farmers runing the economy on almost every realm......

Trust me they did you a favor.....     As for your lost money and spent time so far.... It sucks and I feel for you. 

That sucks.  Yes, please let us know what happens with this.  I use Auctioneer myself and I'd hate to have put up a lot of money to play only to get banned for using a mod like that to help me figure out the best price for an item.  I've only been playing a short time, but I wouldn't want all that work to go to waste.  As another poster said earlier, maybe you should contact the Bliz account staff and find out the details.

Now, I know for a fact that I've been sent mail twice in the last week or so by lvl1 characters that are just advertizements for someone who wants to sell in game gold for real $$ and offering power leveling services.  I know that is illegal and I deleted the messages, but I also thought to report them to Bliz to let them know it's being done.  I didn't only because I didn't want them to think I might be thinking of using this type of service to get ahead.  I would never do that, and anyone who is out there using them is really pathetic to spend real money on non-existant gold.  They are also a sad case if they don't want to spend the time and energy themselves to level their own character.  Anyway, I just hope that you haven't in some way become associated with one of these groups.  Every time I see one of these messages, that is the chill that runs down my spine... being mistakenly associated with those people only because I got a message from one of them.

Good luck, man.  I hope you get this worked out.

[QUOTE="flclempire"]dont use modification programs, haBlitzkrieg05

I hate to tell you but almost everyone I know that plays this game. Including my friends, guild and other people Ive met thru where I work that Ive talked to about WoW. Use mods such as a co-ordinate mod. If you've never played this game dont come in here just to say something stupid like that. And if you are going to say something like that at least expand on it and try to sound intelligent. And yes. I do realize that if I played the game without any modifications whatsoever I'd be fine. but these were approved mods. Or mods that fit within blizzards specs. So this is why I dont get it.

Blizzard install a program on your PC to check all your .exe that are running.

[QUOTE="Blitzkrieg05"]

[QUOTE="flclempire"]dont use modification programs, haP_unit_131

I hate to tell you but almost everyone I know that plays this game. Including my friends, guild and other people Ive met thru where I work that Ive talked to about WoW. Use mods such as a co-ordinate mod. If you've never played this game dont come in here just to say something stupid like that. And if you are going to say something like that at least expand on it and try to sound intelligent. And yes. I do realize that if I played the game without any modifications whatsoever I'd be fine. but these were approved mods. Or mods that fit within blizzards specs. So this is why I dont get it.

[QUOTE="flclempire"]dont use modification programs, haBlitzkrieg05

I hate to tell you but almost everyone I know that plays this game. Including my friends, guild and other people Ive met thru where I work that Ive talked to about WoW. Use mods such as a co-ordinate mod. If you've never played this game dont come in here just to say something stupid like that. And if you are going to say something like that at least expand on it and try to sound intelligent. And yes. I do realize that if I played the game without any modifications whatsoever I'd be fine. but these were approved mods. Or mods that fit within blizzards specs. So this is why I dont get it.

NO offense but they dont just ban people for using Blizzard approved mods. EIther you left out a mod you're using or one of the mods you mentioned is not allowed by WoW.

I think the cartographer mod is now not allowed in WoW not positive though.

rushthatspeaks2

Let me guess you downloaded one of the many bots or client altering cheats? Blizzard knows when you cheat. They just don't go around banning people for no reason.
EndersAres

I hate to tell you this but I didnt use any bots or galdfarming crap or whatever you happen to be talking about. And I can guarantee you that when a company doesnt deal with each person and talk to them. But instead just has a mass banning once a month, there are some inocent people out there that get ran over. What I found interesting is that they have a 1-800 number for their credit card line so you can freely call them to renew your acount to give them even more money.

BUT. All they have to be able to talk to someone about your account is a long distance number. Yea... Shows how much they care...

Maybe they think I did do somethign and I did have something on there I didnt know was bad. I just wish I would have been notified first. I mean It'd be nice to have a warning if I was doing something I didnt know was wrong. Im just trying to figure out why I got banned. Now my auctioneer did come with a few extras in it. Anybody ever heard of bean counter or know what it does? I had that. Also I had something on there called Bottom Scanner. No clue what it did but Im guessing it was alowed. Maybe it wasn't. I dont know. Guess I should have researched more into it. Idk.... Stupid game. If they would have just had a co-ordinates thing already on the map I wouldnt have got into this whole modding thing anyway. Altho I have to admit. I did like auctioneer.

[QUOTE="Blitzkrieg05"]

[QUOTE="flclempire"]dont use modification programs, haP_unit_131

I hate to tell you but almost everyone I know that plays this game. Including my friends, guild and other people Ive met thru where I work that Ive talked to about WoW. Use mods such as a co-ordinate mod. If you've never played this game dont come in here just to say something stupid like that. And if you are going to say something like that at least expand on it and try to sound intelligent. And yes. I do realize that if I played the game without any modifications whatsoever I'd be fine. but these were approved mods. Or mods that fit within blizzards specs. So this is why I dont get it.

so you get banned for using game mods and come here to complain to us? sad sad sad

so you get banned for using game mods and come here to complain to us? sad sad sad

fearless_RTSer

Furthermore, any activities not intended by game design which affect the economy, the client, player characters or the world itself have a tremendous negative impact on the potential enjoyment for all players.  The effects of these activities take many forms including a bloated game economy, server instability, and allowing unauthorized access to accounts, computers, and player data.

THATS where your programs fall under, nice try,  even if all your friends use it, it does not mean blizzard accepts it.  If all your friends decided drinking the stuff under the kitchen sink was fun, would you take a sip? lol