Anyone ever received a 3 hour ban?

[zim79]

I actually found this one kind of amusing. Had left 5 bots running AV 24/7 through the entire CTA weekend, all went from 60-80 and farmed enough honor points for full pvp armor.

Now at midnight, one of the accounts get hit with a suspension:

Account Name: WOW1
Type of Violation: PvP Arena/Battleground Exploitation
Details of Incident: Exploitation of PvP Battlegrounds and the honor system
Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 3 hours

Greetings,

This account has recently been identified as being involved in actions deemed inappropriate for World of Warcraft.

This may include, but is not limited to the following:
* Use of add-ons, "mods", external hardware, or any unapproved third party software to automate gameplay.
* Abuse of game mechanics or "bugs".
* Any behavior that has been found to be outside the intent of the game.

This action has been taken in accordance with the World of Warcraft Terms of Use (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/legal/termsofuse.html) and our game policies (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/).

Any further inappropriate behavior could result in penalties ranging from a temporary suspension to account closure, and may also include the loss of any rewards the exploitive character has received.

For any disputes of this action or further information on Exploitive Activity, please visit the Exploitative Activity FAQ and contact page here:
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article/41654

To maintain the integrity of our investigation methods, we will be unable to disclose the specifics of our investigation methods. Thank you for your time and for understanding our position in this matter.

Regards,

Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment Europe
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/index.xml

Anyone received bans this short before?

 

[him666]

never a 3 hr ban.

but i did just get a 48 hr ban on saturday for my bots ingame name.

 

[lightingthunder]

happened that when i played without bots, was just watching tv and pressing a few buttons from time to time to avoid the debuff

 

[Tony]

its common,nothing new

 

[Milleniox]

never a 3 hr ban.

but i did just get a 48 hr ban on saturday for my bots ingame name.

I got oNe for three hours for my played one's name

 

[richarddoran]

I think thats some sort of auto ban based on getting deserter a lot, probably for those really basic bots that auto join, and sit in the cave, or run randomly, or autofollow the nearest player. Sometimes the bot doesn't get enough action, and if people report like crazy (there are macros I've used when multiboxing that report the entire raid AFK) eventually you get booted. I've started using Healbot CCs, and the new Kaboomkin has an awesome follow player feature, so its almost always near the action.

 

[Kredes]

yes, once.. for spamming the trade channel in VERY long time