Poll: What is the most risky form of botting? (BAN)

[zuabros]

As bans reports seem to be increasing (IMO), and blizz anti-bot policy seems (IMO) to be harder than it used to be, I decided to create this poll, to make some serious statistic for us.

 

[Lister]

what poll??

 

[zuabros]

if you never been banned please do not select anything....

poll done now.

 

[cawpet]

Should just have the *email* poll questions. The others e.g., grinding, pvp, are just speculation as to why the person was banned and they cannot be sure therefore you're not getting solid/correct statistics, just presumptions.

Just saying.. ;D lol.

 

[Crowley]

Kinda misleading poll title
No-one really 'knows' for sure if it was Instancebuddy or Gatherbuddy or player report that got them banned
But as far as the most risky goes i personally think BGs is the riskiest.

 

[jawn]

you forgot the most obvious... "Stupidity of some botters not knowing how or what to do"

 

[zuabros]

pool is not perfect. just want a bare statistic.

 

[Angelus]

Where is the haven't been banned feature? This poll makes it look like we all got banned once...

 

[jawn]

I admit.. i've never been banned while botting. I was banned on my original WoW Account back in 2006. I called Blizz up and asked why my account was banned since i had no email yet. They said "we have proof you were using a 3rd party product blah blah blah..." I didn't even know you COULD bot the game. So it got me wondering... and after about a month... well lets say about 50+ accounts (mostly sold off to others afte rleveled) I'm still going strong with no ban.. just 1 suspension LOL and that was on an account I bought from some college kid.... it was removed after abotu 6 days.

 

[zoktar]

in my experience selling gold will get you the swiftest ban, as blizzard recently stated, other types of activity is logged and monitored, for a more "global" investigation, and when they feel they have gathered enough in comes the banwave.

 

[znuffie]

Where's the "Stop creating this moronic threads" option?

 

[shaorinor]

Basing this on hearsay and assumptions. Go poll Blizzard.

 

[faz999]

Where is the haven't been banned feature? This poll makes it look like we all got banned once...

OP does say dont vote if youve not been banned..

 

[wagstorm]

Where is the one for people who never got banned?

 

[DX123]

I'll throw my vote in for PVP botting for 2 reasons.

1) Your around a lot of real players
2) Most of the assholes who WILL report bots PVP

 

[Liferose]

For PvP it really depends.. Id say a melee has more chances of being banned than a ranged. My hunter looks pretty legit, as it stands in one place. Melee tends to spin around and turn perfectly, etc.. choppy running.

Gold Selling should be #1 as they can ban you pretty easily, grinding usually takes longer to get banned from it, but its still very high.

These threads are kinda pointless.. its common sense..

 

[uiop]

I'll throw my vote in for PVP botting for 2 reasons.

1) Your around a lot of real players
2) Most of the assholes who WILL report bots PVP

Not really fair to call someone an asshole for reporting you for *****ing in the game (unless the person reporting is also *****ing). Technically in that situation, you're the asshole

 

[infaustin2]

Selling gold will never get you banned if you sell to normal players. Selling to Chinese companies directly is 9/10 chance to get you perma-banned. I've only ever had perma-bans form the latter, and temp-bans from player reports while I'm gathering.

 

[sebasuy]

last week got a 72hour suspension for grinding in hyjal

 

[Zejabel]

Hi,

(Please, apologize for my english)

At the moment, I've got 3 account suspended. They ask me to give an ID card with a dayly newspaper. Well, for me it's fine, most of my account are mine.
But some friends of mine had 12, 12 and 7 account perma ban or suspended, and no way to get it back. Even their guild bank is blocked, they can get back the money with officers on a secure account. That's not my case.

Is it just a temporary ban wave or is Blizzard changing his botting, goldselling policy. Can't say. But, what I think is that they are watching the AH. These 2 weeks, I had 2 AH account banned, only after 5 days using ! usually, I could keep it 1 month at least. That's a new thing, they are watching the account with char lvl 1, dealing with AH on several server. They wasn't doing it before these 2 weeks.
Second, my friends were using their botting account to put items on AH. That was a good idea, an account with a lvl 85 char and a lvl 1 using AH is not suspicious. But, if they are watching AH seriously, they would notice that you are making 100K per week, or so.It is now suspicious.

So well, I think that blizzard is using AH to detect botting, goldselling. What do you think about?