PQR - Rotation Bot

[sharkyx1x]

Could be a big destroyer depending on actual number of banned, plus with the legendary cape being a "must" and taking min of 6 weeks it will put people off. But majority of people got 72hr

6 weeks? Apparently you got a different legendary cloak than i did

[sharkyx1x]

They record your IP, they will know your a liar. They will be able to see your history. GL making yourself look stupid though.

i will attempt a new ticket in ~2 weeks, which will be a very very long ticket including

"i could not log into my wow acc, because it says its locked"
"havent played for months"
"checked my email which was registerd on the wow account"
"could not enter my email"
"so i assumed i got hacked"
"so i made a keyloggerscan"
"and i found <insertpopularkeyloggernamefoundatgoogle>"
"and i removed the keylogger"
"and changed email password after a call to <inserttheproviderofmyemail>
"i entered my email an everything was deleted"
"so i entered battle.net so figure out what was happening and i see that one account is banned, so i click on it and it says "pls send in verification ID" (this is always standing there)"
"so iam here now to ask you if you an recent picture of my passport is enough to get everything fixed"

the method "i got hacked" is basically the only method which would work, but it will be only successful if someelse logged in from a different PC, well atleast i did it sometimes with another IP, so maybe i have a change

i will completly ignore my appeals and the "excuses" i wrote there, because they wont remember/read it anyway and if they do, who cares

[JayPwns]

6 weeks? Apparently you got a different legendary cloak than i did

Min, that would mean perfect weeks on runestones etc. And I was banned before I even got the cape, was on my final week.

[prettycooldude]

Figured if i stopped botting and stopped selling gold I'd get to keep an account. Nope.

I don't even consider PQR to be a bot. It had such a minor impact on my gameplay. Another account down the drain though.

I really didn't think PQR would cause a banwave. Cute how it just happens to coincide with release of Hearthstone open beta, their other pay-to-win game.

[freeloading]

This banwave actually convinced me to stop being attached to my chars. I lost all my accounts 3 months ago and just built them back up recently. I'm at the Titan Runestone part of the chain but now I think once my suspension is over, I'd say screw you Blizz. Just gonna farm and sell gold like there is no tomorrow!

[qichang]

It costs 20 bucks right now to get going again. The day after this massive ban wave, you can buy MOP for 20 bucks. Blizzard is known to do massive ban waves around quarterly profit times. If you think about it, it's smart business. IF AND I SAY IF, there were truly 500k accounts banned or 72 suspened, take the 500k and divide it by 2 for a generous split of bans vs. suspensions. Then if you take the "banned' section and again generously divide by 2 you would get 125k people who will by another account and keep on playing... 125k x 20 = 2.5 million dollars. So if you were the CFO, aka Chief Financial Officer of Blizzard, because if you don't think he is involved in this type of decision you are insane. Wouldn't you say yes as well ? Grand scheme, satisfy customers who hate botters, make 2.5 million in likely less than 2 weeks dependent on how long it takes them to respond to everyone's appeals and make Q1 look pretty to their shareholders ?

Ok so lets get this straight. By your logic
250k people with 72 hour ban
125k people quitting
125k people rebuying the game
125k x $20 = 2.5M in new game income....
You seem to be missing something in your crazy logic of this "master plan of the CFO". 125k x $15 per month lost subs= 1.875M. Making it a loss at only 1 1/3 months. Wow doesnt make much off the games, they make it from monthly subscribers.

[Deathsmind]

Min, that would mean perfect weeks on runestones etc. And I was banned before I even got the cape, was on my final week.

One of the quests is 3000 valor. That takes a minimum of 3 weeks. Almost each of the other quests is 3 weeks as well. It takes a few months with decent drops.

[Vinshom]

Hi, on Jan 22nd I have received NOTICE OF LICENSE TERMINATION*. Well that ended my journey with wow for good, Thanks to those who helped me in game out of the game and I wish you guys a good luck in your life.

[JhonnyQ]

They record your IP, they will know your a liar. They will be able to see your history. GL making yourself look stupid though.

i used a VPN sometimes, so my chances are not that bad

+
who the **** cares if i look stupid by writing a ticket
you may look stupid when masturbating to mickey mouse?

[wowmacro]

My huge concern is that many profiles used PQI, and PQI used CHAT_MSG_ADDON as a version check...

function ADDON:CHAT_MSG_ADDON( event, prefix, message, channel, sender)
    --if sender == E.myname then return end
    if prefix == "VC" and not ADDON.recievedOutOfDateMessage then
        if ADDON.version ~= 'BETA' and tonumber(message) ~= nil and tonumber(message) > tonumber(ADDON.version) then
            ADDON:Print("Your version of "..AddOnName.." is out of date. You can download the latest version from http://pqrotation.wikia.com/wiki/PQInterface")
            ADDON.recievedOutOfDateMessage = true
        end

Which means addon messages were communicated to the server, and sent to any listening clients on that addon channel. This is a HUGELY BAD IDEA, as it is essentially advertising to the WoW servers "I AM RUNNING THIS ADDON!" Blizzard logs everything they receive, and it is just a matter of them searching the logs for people advertising their version number on the channel.

This is why I want to know if anyone was banned without ever having PQI installed.

while i didnt use PQI but only PQR with my warr and I got banned

[manymaxx]

lol Hesoldusouttobliz i think you are an employee of blizz and i f@ck you with all blizz and I will continue to use all existing bots.

[sharkyx1x]

You guys want to know what a major change to PQR was that got blizzes attention? The automated pet leveling profile. I for one used the hell out of it and made millions of gold with it. Had this particular profile not come out i honestly do not think we would be looking at a ban wave at the moment. If you remember the Xpack when archaeology came out Pirox had an automated archaeology bot that triggered a banwave. Blizz does not like the new professions, especially the ones they "baby" being botted.

[C1ph3r]

PvPers ruin yet another great thing. I honestly believe if it weren't for all the instant-near instant interrupts and nearly impossible things some rotations pulled off, this banwave would have been avoided. Use this for PvE and don't hurt others gameplay? I can see Blizz looking the other way. But PvP where you face against other players and ruin their gameplay? Yeah, Blizz won't look the other way on that one.

But thank you Xelper and all the profile creators. If it weren't for you guys I would have quit a long time ago. It was an amazing run.
/bow

[sharkyx1x]

Wow, some of you guys that got 72h banns, check to see when your billing date is. I received a 72h, my bill date was the 24th and i can see it being taken out of my account. Today was the end of my 72h ban, and i just got an email (after being able to log into the game from my 72h being lifted) that my account is perma banned. I have a feeling blizz may have given 72h banns to people who were about to be billed so that they can still bill them, a final time then ban them like they just did me. is that even legal?

[whiterabbit77]

Wow, some of you guys that got 72h banns, check to see when your billing date is. I received a 72h, my bill date was the 24th and i can see it being taken out of my account. Today was the end of my 72h ban, and i just got an email (after being able to log into the game from my 72h being lifted) that my account is perma banned. I have a feeling blizz may have given 72h banns to people who were about to be billed so that they can still bill them, a final time then ban them like they just did me. is that even legal?

Are you kidding? Let me get this straight, you origanally got a email of a 72 hour ban, then today you logged in after its over, they billed you then permabanned you? If that is true, dispute the transaction (no services recieved), I was unlocked today after 72 hours but not permabanned, but my bill is due on the 1st.