WoW Account Closure for No Reason
Never has WoW/Blizzard disappointed me until today. My account got an email saying my account was closed due to abuse of the economy. Abuse of the economy? Do they mean reaching the gold cap 8 times in a span of 1 year is BAD?
The ban wasn’t even a 72 hour ban, it’s an “ACCOUNT CLOSURE”. In other words, it’s a permanent ban. Over a span of 1 year, I’ve spent a lot of gold on epic fliers, mechano-hogs, a lot of buying and selling, GDKPS, and some gold even just given away to friends. Wow, that’s the doings of an evil person, right?
Four of my friends also got an “ACCOUNT CLOSURE” email for no apparent reason. 3 of them are also awesome in the AH business and is harvesting a lot of gold. The other friend just liked doing daily heroics and daily quests. This sounds like someone in the Blizzard GM department had a bad day and decided to unleash his/her frustration on innocent players. What is going on?
I decided to google a bit on the situation and came across this thread on the world of warcraft forum and also reported the same situation. Mind you, this thread was only started on March 26, 2010. What’s with the last week of March?
I had a similar problem. I have 2 wow accounts and my other account got banned (which I bearly play) for no reason. In the email it said I got banned for gold selling and messing with the servers auction house prices. It was quite bizzare considering my account was not hacked and I only used the account to do heroics to get frost badges to get blue gems for my main to make gear.
So I say this…
“You play wow? You want good wow gear? You want gold? Well please go and http://www.farmityourowndamnself.youscrubs”
About 2 hours later i’m disconnected from the game. Looks like a normal disconnect. I go to log back in and it says this account has been permanently banned. I go open my e-mail, and there’s a big load of fail.
On with the subject. Blizzards anti-gold buying and selling gong show is really stupid at the moment. My friends and I make a decent amount of gold probably over 100k a month. I’ve had a couple of friends get auto-banned for transfering THEIR OWN GOLD TO THEIR OTHER ACCOUNTS because it was like over 100-200k gold. It is so !#%@ing stupid.
Isn’t blizzard getting a bit of a paranoid freak about gold? And according to the forum posts, some people say WoW’s TOS says they can ban anyone with no apparent reason? Wow, that’s annoying. I don’t think they would be stopping these “bans for no reason” until there is a sudden decline in their subscriptions.
I am currently contesting my ban. Let’s see what happens. If I can’t get my account back and if my other blog contributors can’t get their accounts back, this gold blog is as good as dead.
Sassafrasa
It’s a disgusting showcase of their employees laziness to ban anything that looks like a gold seller. I’ve heard a few of these stories lately myself and it’s made me paranoid that I’m next. I’ve laid off on cross-faction transfers and large transactions with my mat farmers because of it.
Blizzard really needs to come out and define what’s allowed and what isn’t in a blue post series. It’s a fine time since they just commented on possibly increasing the gold cap for Cataclysm. Why do we need more gold storage if we’re just going to get banned for earning enough to use it??
If bans are occurring, they better damn well have the proof of these people’s wrongdoing and make it public.
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Well I feel your pain sir. Back in vanilla Ive got a ban aswell, cus of ‘high volume gold traffic’. While in reality I was just getting gold from my bankalts all together on 1 alt. Cost me 4 weeks to get my account back. When I got it back tho my gold was all gone (to the last copper) and it took me another 2 weeks to convince them it was all made by myself, for myself.
Get rdy for alot of mailing back and forth with blizz.
thanks pokepoke
Just an update, 2/5 accounts already unbanned, not including me nor other blog contributors 
Still waiting for a reply.
Hows the unbanning comming along sassa?
2/5 unbanned
1 friend – said he was hacked and blizz is asking for documents to prove that it’s his account
Me + 1 blog contributor – unbanned
1 blog Contributor – abuse of the economy, unbanned, then he was banned again for association to multiple exploitative accounts. Gonna write a post about that
This happened to me as well. I sent two mails totaling about 15k to my main account and I got a 72 hour ban. No response from blizzard, after the ban was up, I waited a week, and tested sending 4k. Account was closed. I had to spend 45 mins on hold to get an investigation opened. It got unbanned the next day however.