World of Warcraft Accounts Closed Worldwide

In our continued efforts to combat cheating in World of Warcraft, more than 76,000 accounts were closed and 11 million gold was removed from the game economies in Europe, Korea, and the US in the month of September. The closed accounts were associated with activities that violate World of Warcraft's Terms of Use, such as using third-party programs that allow cheating, and farming gold and items. These types of activities can severely impact the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players.

We will continue to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating. Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in a permanent ban of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.

Many account closures come as the direct result of tips reported to our GMs in game or emailed to our Hacks Team by legitimate World of Warcraft players. If you suspect that a World of Warcraft player is using an illegal third-party program to farm gold or items, or is otherwise violating our Terms of Use, please report the suspected infraction to the GM team using the In-Game Help Request. (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/support/gamemasters.html) All reports will be investigated, and those that prove false will not result in corrective action.

As always, thank you for your continued support, and best of luck with your continued adventures in Azeroth!

Q u o t e:
The problem still persists. I understand it is hard to act against it, but banning once every few months won't solve anything.

Good thing we don't do it like that then. If you read the first line in the original message carefully you'll see that we say "in the month of September", which means... well... in the month of September. It doesn't mean "on the ban day in September". ;) Bans happen all the time, but we don't post those numbers continually. Once in a while we give a little update though, as some seem to think we do absolutely nothing. Of course, those could say they don't believe us unless they get to push the ban button personally. :p

Q u o t e:
However, it looks as though you guys do alot, if not most of the banning on a single day during the month though. One day there are all the usual botters farming away and the next day nothing but mobs and tumbleweeds in 90% of all the typical bot locations.
Not complaining though. Just curious to whether this is the case or just a freaky coincendence.

I believe the last news about bans coincided with a maintenance during which we also added some other stuff that stopped a lot of bots as they were trying to log in, which would naturally lead to such a scenario. :)

Q u o t e:
This looks like a copy&paste from some time ago... =/

EDIT: aha, it is the original topic...=.= So the date isn't English style (month-day-year). Who bumped this!?

That seems like a common confusion about this thread. I'll close it now, as I think people have had their chance to share the opinions on this by now. :p