Banned 9/25 "Abuse of economy"

[kanso]

1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Honorbuddy using arch bot

2)Which version (and Beta or Release)?: Release

3)If so, when was the last time?: Few hours ago during ban

4)What profile were you using?: Default arch bot

5)What combat class were you using? x

6)What plugins are you using?: x

7)How many hours per day did you bot for?: I botted some this morning, toke a break went to work came home botted a bit while watching twitch than stopped the bot logged on my mage did legit bgs than farmed brewfest mount on all my alts legit

8)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 90

9)How many auctions per day did you have?: i have only started using ah recently and the only things in there are pets that i farmed from raids legit and pets i merched

10)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? no

11)Was your account involved in gold selling? no

12)EU or US realm? us

13)Is the banned account a Scroll of Resurrection or an actual paid account? paid

 

[markops]

how many accs banned? one pc? how did you level them?

 

[kanso]

how many accs banned? one pc? how did you level them?

one account banned and all of my characters were leveled legit

 

[markops]

u got only one arch bot banned? are there any other bots running on that pc (grinding, gathering)?

 

[kanso]

u got only one arch bot banned? are there any other bots running on that pc (grinding, gathering)?

Nope only bot being used is arch bot

 

[markops]

I got 14 banned on 3 different pcs, different ips, leveled with dungeonbuddy, all raf linked, and it has been only 5 days since there were botting. I guess arch bots are targeted atm.

 

[kanso]

Were you using it?

everytime i bot i stop and play manually for a while and send pms on real id

 

[markops]

yes, were runing arch bots on all of them

 

[Aion]

Were you using it?

everytime i bot i stop and play manually for a while and send pms on real id

Kanso, would u mind sharing the ban mail? Since Abuse of Economy is not regular botting ban reason, but one for selling/buying gold or similar.

Have you appealed already?

 

[nomad8939]

I also had 5/5 banned last night. All were doing arch and received abuse of economy ban on all of them. I do sell gold but not from any of the accounts that were farming archaeology.


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1:07 AM (7 hours ago)

***Notice of Account Closure***

Account Name: WOW1

Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy

This account was closed because one or more characters were identified exchanging, or contributing to the exchange of, in-game property (items or gold) for "real-world" currency. This exchange process negatively impacts the World of Warcraft game environment by detracting from the value of the in-game economy.

Even if this is the result of account sharing, the account owner can still be held responsible for the penalty because of the impact it had on the game environment.

We've found the above behavior is many times directly related to groups responsible for compromising World of Warcraft accounts; we take these issues very seriously. To better understand our position against exploitative activity and the risks involved, please review this article: Impact of Buying Gold - Shop - World of Warcraft

The exploitative activity that took place on this account violates the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. We ask you take a moment to review these terms at Blizzard Entertainment:Blizzard Legal Documentation. Note that additional Terms of Use violations may result in more severe actions against this account, up to and including permanent closure.

If you believe your account was compromised, please go to the following website https://us.battle.net/account/support/account-recovery.html. Our support staff will assist you as soon as possible. If you are unable to access your account due to the password being changed, please visit our Login Support site here: https://us.battle.net/account/support/password-reset.html

For any disputes of this action or further information on exploitive activity, please visit the Account Administration Overview and contact page here: Account Administration Overview - Battle.net Support

Regards,

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[Hastur]

Same thing happened to my two accounts last night. Will call them Sat and try to get them unbanned - I think it should work. First time ban on the accounts... I was using Archeology to level.

"Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy"