Maybe it wasn’t the first time or they did it multiple times?
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Nice story I don’t buy it though, to get suspended you would have been afking a lot in BG’s or appearing as afk. Unless Frostwolf base is under attack there is no reason for you be idle in the base, that’s what the recall insignia is for.
People should definitely be getting banned for not participating in bg’s, it should be more strict and we the players should be given tools to tackle it ourselves instead of Blizzard having to ban someone after they have been reported a 1000 times. The amount of this crap that goes on is insane, just lazy losers leeching and ruining other peoples enjoyment of the game, completely deserved suspension.
Maybe people will participate if they fix the honour
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The honor gain is quite good if you actually play the game and don’t go afk, but I guess you’re also one of those high reward with less to zero effort players.
Get a job nerd
During my countless of hours on this forum, I have encountered people like you.
Attacking people, instead of the argument.
Play the game, it’s not that hard. You might achieve something while you do it. You don’t need to nolife WoW in order to get anything done.
9 days is overkill for a first offense that was not that clear anyway.
He was not even in the cave, but in the main base in a place that some stealthers could get at any moment.
If they want to hammer someone, there are probably plenty of bots.
I wonder if someone was having a bad day in CS
You don’t get banned by afking one single BG.
You get banned by afking several/dozens of BGs.
Somebody I reported for afking in a BG got banned recently though 
Teaches them right just to afk 
Afkers should get banned.
It wasn’t even worded as ‘‘afk’’ in the suspension email, it literally said ‘‘for not participating in a battleground’’ i.e. hitting other people. And on this day before the suspension I only did ONE single AV because the wait time was so atrocious and I tried to get all the quests done in there.
So if their new policies override the old AV design which basically was ‘‘anything goes’’ seeing that a single AV could have been up for days and was basically a world for itself, then they should just remove all pve quests in there.
That said, like mentioned earlier, people should just forget about this whole Blizzard ultra quality nonsense, if it even ever existed. The people reviewing these complaints are normal call-center level employees with mostly bad days that just want to get from paycheck to paycheck, they don’t care about individual experience or to uphold some Blizzard name that maybe existed 30 years ago.
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They are not Game Masters anymore (in the D&D sense) but Game Drones. Actiblizion clipped their wings over the years.
It seems they can only maybe have some fun in the PTR/Alpha/beta
LOL dude admits he got banned for a good reason and is now just crying about it
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Hello. I know many people claim that this 8 day ban for afking never existed but they are all wrong. I played classic wow and ranked 2 chars in battlegrounds. Both ranking took around 6 months together.
The amount of people joining battlegrounds and afking behind trees is so high that blizzard enforced this penalty of 8 days so these players would lose all the progress they made during a week of leeching and disturbing other players experience and/or blocking a spot from someone who could be of more use.
The normal afk reporting does not work for these people. Why? Because these people do NOT afk, they simply do not do anything but are well aware of doing nothing and halving most peoples honorgains in their range without effort. Getting them the afk flag debuff won’t help as they will just engage 1 hit into combat and go back to afk leeching.
That said, the afk debuff, even the second form can be bypassed by simply relogging to reset the timer, making it impossible to get such players kicked out of the battleground.
People will report you for such things and after your 8 days when people have you back in their bg you should maybe re-think your doing to not get a 30 day on top of that. Afking is never justified. If I have to get to the door I simply /afk out because I know I can get a ban for doing nothing even if it is only 1 minute.
afk honor farming i bg was a HUGE problem back in TBC.
Can confirm so.
Never played classic before.
Boosted a toon.
Grinded AB for 10k honor.
I play rogue. Tried to get bases with CC. Avoided fighting due lack of gear.
(and to be fair: canceled rez while we were farmed on graveyard)
Got banned for 9 days.
Even on retail. EVEN ON RETAIL.
Support says “no our system is working fine”
Blizzard tracks what you are doing. How many yards you are walking. What keys youre pressing. Where you are in game. It seems likr blizzard gives you a score depending on that. I understand from the US forum that this score increases drastically in the AV-tunnel. If youre score hits a certain point you are out on the next banning wave.
Blizzard will say 9 days is fine.
Blizzard will never admit their spy system is not working.
Just take the bill and make sure you die a lot for your next afk session in bg while netflexing.
If enough people afk report them, they will be kicked out immediately.
By the way: there is no ranking in prepatch
Not true. The person will get a debuff to then engage combat. If they do not they will get another debuff and a purple mark on the map (inactive) and be kicked upon expiration (1minute) but this can be bypassed by constant relogs to reset the timer.
Unsure if that’s just on retail, but:
1 report -> debuff
Alots of reports -> instant kick.
I would be very surprised if blizzard did not implement this system on classic servers as well as it would reduce the amount of tickets sent by heros like this nightelf warrior.
I know this because i never afk but trashtalk alot and retail players abuse this system to kick people.
Nope I ranked 6months in total. That is how it works and a good reasoning for why afkers got bans.
Seen many afkers and afk debuff abusers. Never instant kick. The only “instant” kick happening is when they are actually tabbed out for 5minutes and auto afking :D.
Do you assume it or do you know it?
Did you get 8 other people to afk-report 1 single player in wsg and he did not kicked out immediately?
I know there is no such thing as auto removal from a battleground in classic. If you ranked during p3 / 4 there was a ton of afkers in bgs. The only player choice here is to massreport to get them the debuff to then eventually get kicked out of the battleground. There is no other possibility than hope that the reported person really is afk and being removed when it expires.
A gnome standing in the Bossroom the whole time and being massreported by atleast 20 people in Alteracvalley (due to discord premades) still only gives them the usual debuff.
These people get banned for nonparticipation and/or evading these debuffs by simply hitting someone and minding their own business again.
The only auto removal in classic wow was the bug from prepatch randomly removing someone from the BG.