Blizzard tracking account playtime?

[Kaam]

I'm interested to know whether anyone has had any indication that blizzard tracks how long an account is logged in as opposed to a single character. The reason I ask this is because I'm interested in leveling a few more characters on the same account to gain some other professions and I planned on doing this in the off-time of my farming character.

 

[bossland]

per char there is a traking which leeds to automated security notices

however if you have 8 x lvl 80 on 1 account and each char plays 3h , there is no prob with traking

 

[Kaam]

That's what I was hoping. Shouldn't be an issue then. The farmer on this account does between 8-10 hours and then once he finishes I want to level something on the side.

 

[Murphman]

As far as I can see they don't track play times. I ran a Priest for 7 days no breaks and received like 5 whispers over the entire period and those were from gold sellers. I'm EU and have been using bots for about 3 years on my accounts. Pretty sure EU is a hell of a lot more relaxed than the US.

 

[Jparker]

there definitely is no time tracking as far as I can tell. I ran 3 GB accounts 24/7 for 3 months before they were banned. The only times they were offline was during maint.

 

[exfelon]

Hmmm... wonder who's information I'd be more likely to believe in this thread.....

 

[Jparker]

Believe whoever you want, doesnt matter to me. Ill bot how I bot, you do the same.

 

[Laso49]

per char there is a traking which leeds to automated security notices

however if you have 8 x lvl 80 on 1 account and each char plays 3h , there is no prob with traking

Is the bold proven?
Because I run Gatherbuddy 24/7 besides maintence, and have been doing this for several months with no ban/ suspension.

 

[Jparker]

my point exactly

 

[dottzor]

per char there is a traking which leeds to automated security notices

When did that start?
I know for 110% that they didn't do that @ start of WotLK.
They did in vanilla for a brief amount of time tho.

 

[bossland]

now run GB 24/7 for 2 months and gather every minute an herb or an ore , and now look what message you will get at the end

security notice ... and this is automated because of gathering count with time count combined

 

[Jparker]

I do that already... I herb and mine. I have never gotten a security message, only a ban, and I am pretty sure it stemmed from a report

 

[Sokoo]

There actually is a tracking system, I found it out not the hard way but when WotLK got released I was leveling like crazy was online for about 32 hours straight (LAN party ) just leveling and leveling and AFKing when there was food . After around 23 hours or so there was this GM that whispered me and said "Hello bla bla bla common bullshit, are you there?" And where I replies "Yes, why?" Then the GM just said "Oh nevermind"
For me this is enough evidence believe me or not but be carefull

 

[feveredpanda]

That would have been around November of 2008. They no longer contact you like that.

 

[peakaboo]

I grind my bots 24./7 pretty much and well i would say this " some times i get people in the zone who really have no right being there at there level, and they are close to my bot" i do think blizz track per char online game time , maybe just a 1 min re log will reset it - since i am still going no susp - no ban-3 bot's

 

[Postman158]

There actually is a tracking system, I found it out not the hard way but when WotLK got released I was leveling like crazy was online for about 32 hours straight (LAN party ) just leveling and leveling and AFKing when there was food . After around 23 hours or so there was this GM that whispered me and said "Hello bla bla bla common bullshit, are you there?" And where I replies "Yes, why?" Then the GM just said "Oh nevermind"
For me this is enough evidence believe me or not but be carefull

He just said "Oh Nevermind.."? I dont know if that sounds too much like a blizz gm.

 

[MrBig]

He just said "Oh Nevermind.."? I dont know if that sounds too much like a blizz gm.

He would say something like "Oh Light-bearer, may the Light stay with you as long as your mana != empty" (paladin), lol!

Seriously, they say some wierd stuff. I once asked him "whats that your smoking, i dont know what it is... but i want some", and he said it was his job to say stuff like that lol

 

[Mario27]

There actually is a tracking system, I found it out not the hard way but when WotLK got released I was leveling like crazy was online for about 32 hours straight (LAN party ) just leveling and leveling and AFKing when there was food . After around 23 hours or so there was this GM that whispered me and said "Hello bla bla bla common bullshit, are you there?" And where I replies "Yes, why?" Then the GM just said "Oh nevermind"
For me this is enough evidence believe me or not but be carefull

hehehe i bot 24/7 and never had once a gm message but im on eu