Official "Ban wave" 22. Jan 2014 Thread

[zexa1]

Just for informational purposes: PQI is a program that sits in your Interface>Addons folder. It's required by some PQR profiles to function properly.

The only thing that was in my addons folder was PQR.

[Modernn]

I made a faulty game issue ticket to get a call back and had a CS Supervisor available within 30 minutes. I was not able to get them to reverse the ban. I have a friend that is a GM who's recommendation was to say that someone else (Like your brother) was using the account. I was unsuccessful and will be opening tickets on the daily to try to get my account ban reversed. I urge everyone who's account was banned to do the same. If nothing else, Clog up the que's and make them spend some money on OT.

[Sheepshot]

1: US
2: PQR, PQI
3: 72 hour, on both accounts
4: PC
5: I've only used PQR for PvE and I've been using PQR since the beginning of MoP with no problems then blam! hit with a ban on both my accounts. I guess I'm lucky and only got a slap on the wrist because I'd be pissed off if my main account, that I've had active since BC, got permabanned. Also, my girlfriend also got 72 hour ban as well but she only uses PQR occasionally, and has not used it in about 2 months. So I'm not sure how it was detected.

What a sad, sad, day for me. Cause PQR helped out immensely as a raid leader.

[kene23]

1: EU
2: PQR
3. Perma
4: PC
5: Last time I used PQR was on Wednesday of this week. I only ever used it for pve

[ophelierlz]

1: EU
2: PQR
3: Perma
4: PC - win7
5: I did use PQR for a whole Pandaria datadisk. I tought i will get 72h ban instead of perma since it was my first problem with blizzard. Nvm, **** them. PQR was only a way for me to play stupid PvE.

[v3ntrix]

1: US
2: PQR
3: Suspended 72H
4: PC
5: email says i was suspended for botting but the only program i use with Wow is PQR

[PaYnE18]

1: US
2: PQR
3: Suspended 72H
4: PC
5: email says i was suspended for botting but the only program i use with Wow is PQR

bot, bot , bot

[surfman]

1: US / Oceanic
2: PQR/PQI and HB
3. Perma on 4 accounts 72hrs on 1 Account
4. PC
5: Using PQR since Cata on all 5 accounts. Use honorbuddy on 3 accounts (All perma banned). The Account with 72hr I only used PQR/PQI and only in PVE (LFR and Timeless Isle) never PvP on that account. Doubt this ban wave is IP related and cant be detecting PQI as my wow folder has PQI installed and I play all accounts with PQI installed yet 4 accounts perma banned and 1 only got 72hrs. I am a recurring subscriber every 3months on credit card if that means anything.

[SeveredShadow]

more have pc there has been mac bans but i dont remember reading any on this thread

I was not aware that PQR even worked on a Mac. I assumed there were no Mac bans cause they didn't have access to PQR, not without a sandbox at least.

[nz7]

1 Oceanic
2 PQR
3 PERM
4 PC
5 INFO i have used pqr for one year had no problems just enjoy pve pqr makes it a lot better for me , i have used it in pvp but found it was better if i done it myself i am hopeful but very sure i will have my account closed, if even 10% of the people banned get new accounts blizzard will make a lot of money and foresee it happening again in the future , wish everyone the best

[repa33]

1. RU
2. PQR + PQI
3. 72 hours
4. PC

[razer86]

1: US
2: PQR & PE
3. 72hr
4: PC - Win8 64, 32bit WoW and loaders
5: Only ever used for PvE
6: Subscription

[Jysticim]

1: EU
2: PQR/PQI only
3: Main banned (never had a ban before, now instant perm ban)
4: PC
5: My accounts ARE frozen and were frozen for almost 3 weeks! Never banned/suspended before!

[Planetdune]

I don't get it... I mean I been botting (tyrael) for ages now and not been banned (thank the heavens).. but if I get this right it's the PQR bot that caused the trouble... how can they detect this ?? Unless the bot is "to perfect" .. but why write a "perfect bot" to begin with ? Noone is perfect... a bot should rotate and change rotations a little here and there, introduce some irandom input lag, use different timings etc...

I was under the impression after so many years of bot development this was long known by now... and it makes me feel uneasy to continue using Tyrael... anyone knows if that bot also does "perfect rotations" ?

[jerseyboi]

1. US
2. PQR/PQI
3. 72 hour ban
4. PC
5. PQR was loaded but never used, was just flying and doing elders quests. Suspended in mid-flight.