When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).That’s admirable, but it does mean that botters are often harder to get rid of.Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: In order to protect legitimate players, Blizzard chooses not to ban people on suspicion alone. That takes time, and worse, even when Blizzard does prove it to their own satisfaction (it’s their game, after all, they can technically kick anyone out at any time) and bans the player, they’re often back with a new account within the day. Blizzard can often determine a bot program or programs are being used, but not always, and that means when a player is reported for suspected botting Blizzard has to try and gather evidence to prove the player isn’t just really freaking good at the game. Therefore, the market remains for botters to turn a profit.Īnother issue with banning botters is, there’s an eternal arms race between Blizzard’s monitoring programs and heuristics and the programs the botters use to automate their gameplay to keep from being detected. While you can still benefit from the WoW Token to a degree as a WoW Classic player by buying said token in retail WoW using the gold you have there, you can’t sell the token inside WoW Classic, and therefore you can’t spend real world money to get in game gold in WoW Classic. Blizzard created the WoW Token in part to remove that market - they literally undercut the botters at their own game by letting players pay real money directly to them in a secure transaction in exchange for gold via selling the token in game, while others who had a surfeit of gold in game could exchange it directly for game time. The first is, simply put, no matter how many accounts Blizzard bans (and they just banned 74,000, so you know they’re not shy) there are more waiting to step in and take up the task, because there’s money in it. Since WoW Classic is literally an MMO from 2006 without any of the improvements made since to combat this, it will continue to feel the effects of cheaters and botters. Because WoW Classic very deliberately hearkens back to when World of Warcraft didn’t have things like the WoW Token, there will always be a real world market for people who are willing to spend said real life money for gold and resources, and as long as that market exists in WoW Classic, there will be people willing to break the terms of service and cheat to get the gold and resources others want to buy. The question becomes, will this finally be the end of it? Has Blizzard finally triumphed over people using bot programs to farm instances, kill mobs and claim all the nodes in an area faster than an unassisted player could? So it’s not necessarily a surprise that they’ve recently banned over 74,000 accounts as part of their overall effort to reduce cheating in the game, along with a 30 unique instances a day cap to go alongside the 5 instances an hour cap already in place. Blizzard has been waging war with bots and gold farmers since the original days of World of Warcraft, so it’s not exactly a surprise that they’ve found themselves engaged in that same war in WoW Classic, especially since gold is not as easily acquired there as it is in the modern game.
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