Giwin is bannz0red!

[Giwin]

1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Questing, Gatherbuddy2

2)If so, when was the last time?: few mins ago

3)What profile were you using?: private 1-90 questing profiles

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

5)What plugins are you using?:

<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="AutoEquip2" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="AntiDrown" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="AlwaysHere" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="DrinkPotions" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="DeathCountbyZoneId" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="GuildAccept2" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="FuckOff" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="SellItAll" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="SingularBugFix_ClearTarget" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="Tidy Bags 3.6 Reloaded" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="UseScrolls" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="InfoCollector" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="UseTransport" />
<CustomBehavior File="EnablePlugin" Names="ZygorTalentLearner" />

6)How many hours per day did you bot for?: 12 hours today

6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 90% (making questing profiles)

7)How many auctions per day did you have?: max 100 items

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

9)Was your account involved in gold selling? yes on another realm though

10)EU or US realm? EU

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


Greetings,

This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:

Battle.net Account Name:
World of Warcraft Account Name:
Account Action: Account Closure

Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers.

Type of Violation: Exploitation
Category of Violation: Third Party Program
Character Name Involved: Questing Character

While we regret to take this type of action, we have determined it to be in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game.
Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences for your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.
Also note, you must log into the game after the suspension has expired to update the status of the account shown on your Account Management page.

For further information, or to review our current Rules and Policies, please refer to:
https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/ingame-policies

Please be advised that these actions apply only to this account will have no effect on any new accounts you may wish to create, but the characters from this cancelled account will remain irretrievable. Should you wish to create a new account, you will need to obtain a new and unused CD key with a retail copy of the game.

Regards,

Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support

using my own private questing profiles, it was odd since i was gold selling but got banned on my questing character lol

 

[Giwin]

Good evening Giwin,

I regret to inform you the closure of your account is definite and it won't be overturned.

Due to previous strikes on the same matter we must close the account permanently.

Please for more information, refer to the e-mail you should have received with the details on the closing of your account.

We cannot provide you with any more information from our side.

Best regards.

 

[loyoladude]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[zonpan2lol]

Good evening Giwin,

I regret to inform you the closure of your account is definite and it won't be overturned.

Due to previous strikes on the same matter we must close the account permanently.

Please for more information, refer to the e-mail you should have received with the details on the closing of your account.

We cannot provide you with any more information from our side.

Best regards.

That's enough proof for me. It's Singular getting people banned. I got my questers / grinders banned as well, all using Singular. I know it might seem like mumbo jumbo to you but I'm fairly sure the ban is combat-related.

 

[Gqpies]

I've just levelled a Druid and a Shammy from both using Singular CC over the past two weeks and no ban for me. If there is a problem with a CC, it may be class-specific? In which case knowing the class of the characters involved would be useful.

 

[Giwin]

I honestly think it may have be an addon which automatically announces everytime you level up, as I left it from level 1 unattended...

I'll try a second appeal and then I'll admit to botting and see what happens, the admitting to botting part is usually the final attempt otherwise I can also try the same thing own an account that got banned a few months ago but I never tried the admitting botting as sometimes they do unban.

got 3 other accounts active though so, no worrys

 

[loyoladude]

That's enough proof for me. It's Singular getting people banned. I got my questers / grinders banned as well, all using Singular. I know it might seem like mumbo jumbo to you but I'm fairly sure the ban is combat-related.

That's good - I was thinking exactly the same thing the other day. Would be VERY easy for blizzard to create some software that just logs combat routine behaviour and as singular comes with every installation would make sense to cover them first.

 

[Gentoo]

That's enough proof for me. It's Singular getting people banned. I got my questers / grinders banned as well, all using Singular. I know it might seem like mumbo jumbo to you but I'm fairly sure the ban is combat-related.

I'll bite.. How in the world from what you quoted do you come up with "That's enough proof for me, It's singular getting people banned.."

 

[zonpan2lol]

I'll bite.. How in the world from what you quoted do you come up with "That's enough proof for me, It's singular getting people banned.."

The fact that Giwin got banned while questing ^^ The quote itself has no direct relationship

 

[honors]

I was banned while questing by hand. I took over the bot cause it was screwing up repeatedly on a rare and bam, I get dc'ed and when I tried to log back in the dreaded "locked/banned" message appeared. I didn't close HB out either when I took over, I was just planning to let go back to questing after I killed the rare.

 

[Giwin]

My conclusion: If we start to see more bans in regards to Questing or bans in General, I can probably say that they've either done one or two things;

1. They've reduced the amount of player reports needed, If I had to guess based on information given to me by people who have been banned and have used my plugin (targets you and it records it)... I would put that number at 8-10... it may have gone down to 5-6, a very small amount but i'm surprised they haven't done it sooner.
2. They've combined the player reports per battle.net account instead of per character.

 

[Kaelhoel]

Sorry to hear about the ban. :/ Were you using the new beta of HonorBuddy or the released version?

 

[Giwin]

Sorry to hear about the ban. :/ Were you using the new beta of HonorBuddy or the released version?

beta

 

[Zemus213]

My conclusion: If we start to see more bans in regards to Questing or bans in General, I can probably say that they've either done one or two things;

1. They've reduced the amount of player reports needed, If I had to guess based on information given to me by people who have been banned and have used my plugin (targets you and it records it)... I would put that number at 8-10... it may have gone down to 5-6, a very small amount but i'm surprised they haven't done it sooner.
2. They've combined the player reports per battle.net account instead of per character.

It's not just people Gathering / Questing / etc., people using the bot ONLY for the purpose of PvE (Tyrael / Raidbot with a routine) are also getting hit. I don't think it has to do with player reports, but rather the "process snapshot" I am reading alot about.

This is quoted from another post (I believe FPSware):

UPDATE:

Last night I called the support line and spoke to a very helpful guy at Blizard. Unfortunately he was unable to help me at the time but was able to provide some interesting information. As the guy on the phone was only able to deal with general enquiries.

But what he did tell me is that it was identified as a "genuine strike". And he explained that by saying a person, not an automated system, visually observed the accounts in question using third-party software. If it had have been an automated ban he would have been able to reverse it instantly.

From reading through threads for hours on end for multiple days, my educated guess is that the "process snapshot" looks for specific process names, properties or other triggers which may set off a signal which then ques the account to be monitored for activity. This is also derived from the fact that most people who were banned in the spike were banned very shortly after beginning the bot (i.e. They were close to front of the que, and once they logged on were immediately observed.)

It's an "Out-There" theory, but it's my best guess. Either way blizzard has opened fire in one manner or another. Sorry to hear about your situation, Giwin. Hopefully it gets resolved in a prompt manner.

 

[face21]

My conclusion: If we start to see more bans in regards to Questing or bans in General, I can probably say that they've either done one or two things;

1. They've reduced the amount of player reports needed, If I had to guess based on information given to me by people who have been banned and have used my plugin (targets you and it records it)... I would put that number at 8-10... it may have gone down to 5-6, a very small amount but i'm surprised they haven't done it sooner.
2. They've combined the player reports per battle.net account instead of per character.

only one problem with that theory, I was running lazy raider and not automated moving an no auto dispels or interupts.

 

[Giwin]

That would explain dev bans, because most of the devs were helping to test the new closed beta.

 

[face21]

That would explain dev bans, because most of the devs were helping to test the new closed beta.

I see we have another blind follower of the bot and not someone whos interested in the truth. Look, I get that you want to defend something that you have been using for years, but I hope you are not one of those people who look at the post and then post whatever would make the bot look better while using the poster's quotes. For example "Hey guys I just got banned after only using tyreal and LazyRaider, I did use gathering one time for ten minutes 2 years ago" annoying drone from HB forums: "yea they banned you when you used gather because you left it alone for half a second and people reported you, they just decided to ban you 2 years later", I see those types of posts daily and to be honest its a little tiring to watch how each poster is gonna manipulate the posts to make HB not look detected and couldnt even entertain the remotest idea that it may be. We all know the HB devs are competent and know their program front to back. However you also have to agree that blizzard knows their game front to back and have a 10 year head start on the programming of the product and knowing its ins and outs and they are actually paid a steady salary to find things like this bot. Secondly whats to stop a blizz employee from coming on here and looking at the competition? nothing. you dont even have to sign in to look at the forums.

 

[zonpan2lol]

I see we have another blind follower of the bot and not someone whos interested in the truth. Look, I get that you want to defend something that you have been using for years, but I hope you are not one of those people who look at the post and then post whatever would make the bot look better while using the poster's quotes. For example "Hey guys I just got banned after only using tyreal and LazyRaider, I did use gathering one time for ten minutes 2 years ago" annoying drone from HB forums: "yea they banned you when you used gather because you left it alone for half a second and people reported you, they just decided to ban you 2 years later", I see those types of posts daily and to be honest its a little tiring to watch how each poster is gonna manipulate the posts to make HB not look detected and couldnt even entertain the remotest idea that it may be. We all know the HB devs are competent and know their program front to back. However you also have to agree that blizzard knows their game front to back and have a 10 year head start on the programming of the product and knowing its ins and outs and they are actually paid a steady salary to find things like this bot. Secondly whats to stop a blizz employee from coming on here and looking at the competition? nothing. you dont even have to sign in to look at the forums.

Hi, I botted in Burning Crusade but received my ban today, this makes no sense!!?!?!? help pl0x

 

[Zemus213]

Hi, I botted in Burning Crusade but received my ban today, this makes no sense!!?!?!? help pl0x

Out of curiosity, is your in-game login email the same as your forum login?