Banned

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

2)If so, when was the last time?: 4 hours ago

3)What profile were you using?: BG Buddy

4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Balance Druid - Default

5)What plugins are you using?: None

6)How many hours per day did you bot for?: 3 to 5 occasionally 8

6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? Honestly not often with BG Buddy

7)How many auctions per day did you have?: about 50 but only 15 stack max incriments

8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? Nope

9)Was your account involved in gold selling? Never sold any gold ever

10)EU or US realm? US

Oh well, maybe lay low for a bit and make sure it isn't a "banwave"... and if not its back to botting as usual... I wont play if I cant bot. Only crummy part is it was my main account... but my bank account is still alive! =)

 

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This is the latest response from Customer Support:
Greetings,

Thank you for your continued correspondence regarding the closure of your World of Warcraft account. We have performed an additional review of all pertinent information pertaining to this closure and have confirmed our findings. The account was found to have used prohibited third-party software and will remain closed permanently.

This action has been taken in accordance to our Terms of Use (Blizzard Entertainment:World of Warcraft Terms of Use) and our game policies (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20309), which all players acknowledge and agree to prior to participation. When an account violates these policies, the situation is reviewed and appropriate action is taken.

Please understand, 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.

We hope this has cleared up any concerns you may have and expect no further communication on this matter. Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support

This is the response I recieved when I tried to appeal the ban. Usually they just say that there was suspicious activity. This time they specificaly mentioned 3rd party software. Thats a new response from them for me... I have had two perma bans over turned in the past... VEry spread apart though. I only started botting again 3 days ago and got an instant ban.

Im not implying this wasn't just user error on my part, because Im not all that techilogically savvy, but it appears the bans have been coming MUCH more frequently and much more quickly in the last week or so.

Regardless, thanks HB and the team for well over a year of Botastic fun! =)