Way to ban people who don't win trade.

#0 - May 11, 2008, 8:14 p.m.

Dear WoW Account Admin,

I am disputing your claim that I have "win traded" for points or rating. I have acquired nearly all of my season three arena gear within the first two weeks of the season. There are only two times I could possibly be even construed to be "win-trading," one of which was perhaps a week or so ago, when I passed off a team I was no longer using to a friend of mine in guild. They lost perhaps two or three relatively inconsequential games to us purely by accident. A second possible incident was when we suspected we were being queue dodged by a team on the Icecrown server and made alts there to watch if they were dodging us. They were.

I am rather outraged by this supreme lack of awareness on Blizzard's part. These claims are entirely gross and uncalled for and I am disgusted that instead of stopping the REAL win trading teams, you're reaming a character that has not bought a single piece of arena gear in well over a month. Thanks for removing the last of my faith in a fair competitive environment.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com>
Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Subject: World of Warcraft - Account Action Notification

Greetings,

Account Name: --------
Realm: Onyxia
Character Name: Hydralisk

Account Action: 72 Hour Suspension
Offense: Arena Exploitation - Win Trading

Details: Player was verified to have been participating in the trade of Arena Team wins to artificially inflate their or another teams Personal and Team Ratings.

Arena Currency Removed: 5000
Item(s) Removed: [1] Vengeful Gladiator's Endgame
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Silk Amice
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Silk Cowl
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Silk Handguards
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Silk Raiment
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Silk Trousers
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Spellblade
[1] Vengeful Gladiator's Touch of Defeat

Belfaire

#4 - May 11, 2008, 8:21 p.m.

You're free to reply to the email if you feel the action was unwarranted.

Incidentally, 36 teams created since Season 3 started?

Belfaire

#10 - May 11, 2008, 8:28 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Those TV Court shows are all scripted.

Also Belf if you guys are actioning Wintrading now, what would be the appropriate e-mail to report any?

wowgm@blizzard.com.

Belfaire

#35 - May 11, 2008, 9:45 a.m.

Q u o t e:

so that thorough investigation you mentioned in the e-mail was total bs then?

Nope.

Q u o t e:
because of your mistake.

You may have mistyped "because we have fairly clear-cut evidence that he was win-trading".

Belfaire

#41 - May 11, 2008, 9:51 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Blizzard's algorithm for flagging teams as "win traders" is clearly generating huge amounts of false positives. Any process that actually had GMs reviewing matches would show that I have never, ever win traded. That Blizzard would ban people based on some kind of automated statistical analysis is beyond disgusting

A small number of embarrassed/angry/unscrupulous players claiming innocence in the face of evidence does not a huge amount of false positives make. Don't come in here and eject hyperbole in hopes of gaining support, because it won't work. If you feel that it was unwarranted, as I said, contact AA.

Belfaire

#44 - May 11, 2008, 9:53 a.m.

Q u o t e:

if its so clear cut then why isn't it presented to the users? even just knowledge of our bannable actions would prevent us from doing it again. I enjoy competing in high end arena, and would like to continue, but if I got banned the first time for something I never intended to do, I'm fairly hesitant to continue. Just please tell me how to avoid getting banned again and I could avoid doing it so that i may continue to compete in high end arena.

Don't win trade and you won't get banned.

Belfaire

#49 - May 11, 2008, 9:54 a.m.

Q u o t e:

I have already contacted AA. I am posting here to raise awareness of Blizzard's heavy handed and inaccurate techniques.

I'm here to raise awareness of unicorns. What do we have in common?

Belfaire

#102 - May 11, 2008, 10:17 a.m.

Q u o t e:

If Blizzard can do whatever they want, why bother with a CSF?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965509092&sid=1

Best of luck with your appeal! The universe tends to unfold as it should.

Remember, kids: Idle hands are the devil's playground, but tidal bans mean ratings re-ground.

Belfaire

#115 - May 11, 2008, 10:26 a.m.

Ah, forgot to hit the lock.