Okay so that everybody knows, Blizzard now bans you for 30 days period if you happen to casually AFK in one single BG, even tho you get kicked by being afk.
After being capped on my main, I was playing one AV in my alt (exalted with AV, not ranking), and alt tabed during prepare phase. Took a bit more time than i should to alt tab back, and when i do i have the loading screen up after being kicked out for afk + deserter buff. Soon after i get DC and my account is banned for 30 days.
According to blizzard:
“we have investigated this case and we could verify that you did broke the code of conduct of Blizzard and were AFK in a BG.
That behaviour is not acceptable and was proven and verified to have occurred so, as already explained, we will not overturn this penalty and we will keep it for its full duration as game masters are not able to reduce a penalty duration when it is active.”
" AFK in “A” BG." - literally one
According to their ToS: “Behaviour that intentionally detracts from others’ enjoyment (such as griefing, throwing, feeding, etc.) is unacceptable”
- How was this intentional? And how is this a justification to ban some1 for 30 days and ruin his main ranking?
Fair? not fair? What you guys think
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This simply isn’t true, you can go AFK many times and not get banned. You have to be AFKing on a VERY regular basis in order for it to trigger a ban.
I would recommend that if you cannot commit to playing the battleground, not joining in the first place.
p.s. stop being a leech
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I did over a hundred matches this week, never got afk’d out one, and played every minute, it was triggered by excessive reports on some1 that was alt tabed in the cave, not frequence aparently
Yup this is correct.
OP - My guess is you must be an everyday leecher and you’ve been tracked and finally caught out. No one will have sympathy for you; in fact I’d delete your post.
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Having throwing in their TOS is kinda funny when the entire toxic PVP scene honor trades and throws games deliberately at times.
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Hey if thats a true post and not nonsense I would actually say… … … … deserved. I dont believe you been afk for once. there is many people who are saying that upon exposure in random battlegrounds when you see them leeching in 10 out of 11 bgs. I hope they continue banning people like that, no one needs leechers in bgs ty and enjoy your ban.
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if you tried to rank pugging, you would see how trigger happy people are on the reports. It’s not hard to get yourself flagged if you rank pugging, where you play many games with people that report for everything. For sticking to and defending a flag (eficiently, not afk), for not turtling, for not trying hard enough, for everything.
Then all it needs to happen is many reports in a game like that where you actually afk, and ur account is already flagged
If everyday leecher were the case, Blizzard would have refered to it as being AFK in multiple BG’s. But they didn’t. They specifically said in a BG
can you really blame people for being trigger happy to report people who are like fishing in AV and staying in cave or behind trees all game? afkers ruin the already ruined pvp experience and if only AV is a choice and people afk, get them out simple
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i wasnt refering to the cave people, i report them myself. I said if you play many games in a pug environment because you’re ranking, chances are that some1 is gona report you. There are games where i see ppl speaking in other languages that i understand, saying they will report me for language because they didnt like the way i played. The community is too toxic. Chances are your account is gona colect reports here and there over the long period you’re ranking
Look my char was kicked out of the match for being afk. He wasnt afk in the whole duration of the game like u would expect from a leecher. Was waiting for prepare phase to end and alt tabbed for too long, You think that’s a reason for a ban? The system itself has a way to remove that person from the game, and it did
I dont think thats a reason for a ban no. same for people who join late and get reported for afking upon joining a just started bg. but in most cases true leechers dont even receive bans and atleast this shows that the system somehow works doesnt it? yes 30 days is very bad if you were really ranking but I think people should overthink what they do before joining a bg and not doing it while in a bg… there is many sides to it and its really unclear wether you done this many times or just one time because a one timer seems to be weird.
One of the frustrations about blizzards bans is that they dont often tell you exactly why what what led to it. In my case they literally said, afk in A bg. Not many. A bg.
And if in the BG i was like leeching, not participating and getting honor w.e, i would understand the ban, but i was kicked out of the match and the team got another member as i got kicked (sure they had one less during that time but its not as bad as having 1 less for the entire game)
Besides it was not intentional, which is one of the the conditions they include in their own ToS
30 days? Sounds like this isn’t the first time you have been given a suspension for afking in a BG.
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correct, and the previous time it was refered to as games in plural. Its not because i leech games but because like this time, sometimes i take too much time to alt tab back in, and get all those reports for being a bot while not being the case
This time was a singular game, with hundreds of them in between. Maybe the fact i had been suspended before was the flagging necessary? Either way this time they mention a single game. Which with the frequency i game is basically less than 1%
You should learn from your mistakes then. You clearly don’t care about your team mates, only about not being bored for the 2 minutes of the prep phase.
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And i did learn, thats the reason that happened once with hundreds of games in between, dont you see the difference?
Most people manage to avoid being flagged at all. You have managed to be suspended for afking twice. You clearly didn’t learn from your mistake at all.
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You got flag by Blizzards automated heuristics system, stop telling lies about “I only AFK once” never seen that happen and played since Vanilla launch.
The bots can go for months without a ban so Im fairly certain you have what? been pushing rank and rep afk for weeks and triggered server side detection of you being a douch.
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The account was flagged from the previous suspension. If after that you do hundreds of games, its not unlikely that in one you’re gona get booted for the reasons i mentioned at least once, it happens to damn everyone. The difference is that it apparently it takes only one game to reban your account after being flaged, no matter the ammount of them you do, which is the reason im saying this is completely disproportional
Blizzard specifically said i was afk in a BG, why do you refer to it as lies?