Do you always get a 72 hour suspension first for doing the following:

[Bashy]

Hello.

I haven't used HB for along time just to get 2 toons from 85-90. There was only 1 time I felt like I was being watched, fortunately I don't bot without supervising and not for more than 8 hours, what happened was that a tiger bugged at about 1% HP and my char tried to kill it for the longest time until I saw it and moved away from that spot.

Anyways my question is, if all I do is quest to level and do BG's for honor do I always get a 72 hr suspension first in case I get caught? I noticed that most people get the banhammer right away when they try to sell gold or farm/gather too much.

Also I have only been using the 1 day keys for 0,99 cents for now because I don't quite get what the key for 25 dollars does, is it lifetime? Is it for a year? It just says 1 session..

 

[irfancemara]

u dont know what u get, sometime they gave u 72hour suspend first as warning, and sometime they just perma ban your account without warning. The worst thing they ban our account for live betting, odds/even, over/under how many total account got banned in a week. i bet its over 2k account per week.

ps : some drunk blizz staff sometime hit the "mass ban red button" by accident asweel.

and yes im drunk when i writting this shit... lol

 

[CodenameG]

it depends on what your doing, if they are 100% sure you are botting, then its a perma ban, but if they are unsure or theres doubt then it will be a temp suspension.

 

[Dark57]

Also I have only been using the 1 day keys for 0,99 cents for now because I don't quite get what the key for 25 dollars does, is it lifetime? Is it for a year? It just says 1 session..

Its one session as in that key can be used one at a time. It lasts for 3600 days or approximately 10 years. In 25 days the bot pays for itself, stop buying the 1 day keys.

 

[Bashy]

Its one session as in that key can be used one at a time. It lasts for 3600 days or approximately 10 years. In 25 days the bot pays for itself, stop buying the 1 day keys.

Way ahead of you was just in doubt because I didn't quite get what 1 session meant (english isn't my mother tongue).

 

[Ensley03]

My main account was permanently closed even though it was from 2004, 9k+ achievements, and was a first offense. I said I must have been hacked because I was using a tunneling service for lower latency (all a lie but they don't know that) and they didn't care. Then I asked if they could tell me exactly what happened on my account. All it said was 'abuse of game mechanics' and they said they didn't know because there wasn't much information about it and that they would no longer reply to appeals regarding this account.

All I did was bot mining for a few nights. Don't ever bot anything other than battlegrounds on your main account. I certainly won't do it again - I bought a new account last week since they were on sale for $5 and I'll just bot it til it gets banned.

 

[vetteklr]

Will they ban a whole battle.net? Or just the account under the battle.net?

 

[techgod]

Will they ban a whole battle.net? Or just the account under the battle.net?

I've personally been looking into this using Google-fu. Here's what I've come up with so far.

Bottom line, if if you have your main account and your bot account attached to the same Battle.net account, you may or may not have both of them banned if you are caught botting. I've read numerous threads on the subject and some say only the bot account was banned, while others say all their WoW accounts on the same Battle.net account were banned.

Reading between the lines, that would seem to indicate Blizz grants the GMs who investigate botting some leeway, and some GMs come down harder on you than others. So if you want to be perfectly safe, I suppose, that means creating an entirely new Battle.net account with fake info and use a game time card in lieu of a subscription.

Of course, the problem with that approach is that your computer's unique MAC address and IPs are probably logged, so IDK if that really helps all that much. All Blizzard has to do to find the link between the two Battle.net accounts is look at what accounts have been accessed using that same MAC address/IP address and you're screwed. I'm not sure if they would actually delve that deep into it, though, the GM would probably just ban the bot Battle.net account and move on.

tl;dr: It's essentially Russian Roulette, the whole Battle.net account may or may not be banned. No way to tell before it happens.