Prohibitions on Third-party Software

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We continue to work to put a stop to the impact that accounts utilizing third-party software can have on World of Warcraft. We regularly implement new and better cheat detection aimed at identifying those who reverse-engineer and bypass our security protocols to modify the game client and/or control the game in ways that are prohibited.

We regularly take action against such behavior, up to and including the permanent closure of the WoW accounts involved.

The use of third-party software that modifies the World of Warcraft game client is against our Terms of Service. Part 1, Section C of the Blizzard End User License Agreement reads:

License Limitations

Blizzard may suspend or revoke your license to use the Platform, or parts, components and/or single features thereof, if you violate, or assist others in violating, the license limitations set forth below. You agree that you will not, in whole or in part or under any circumstances, do the following:

Derivative Works: Copy or reproduce (except as provided in Section 1.B.), translate, reverse engineer, derive source code from, modify, disassemble, decompile, or create derivative works based on or related to the Platform.

Cheating: Create, use, offer, promote, advertise, make available and/or distribute the following or assist therein: any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in connection with the Platform and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay or other functionality;

We expect players to remove third-party software that bypasses the security of the game client, to avoid penalties such as suspension or closure of your account.

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Does this mean that iMorph and Auto Hot Key are now banned?

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hello Kaivax.

in the small farming land at hollowfall and the place that 2x4 skinning groups .
those 2 area are the core of those cheaters.
and one more thing they are active when the middle of night starts till morning.
( when most of players are sleeping ) at hollowfall.
in order to not get reported by players

and for the 2x4 skinning groups.
they start from the start of the morning till Noon.

if you want to eradicate them you need to do heavy - massive attacks every week.
you see?
when you stop a group of them they goes in that channel and tell the other to be carefull.
so they goes offline and buy more accounts in order to start again when the situation is calm.
but if you go around them without need of players report and ban a massive group of them every week they have no chance to save the others.
all of them gets hit at the same time. and after few weeks they dont have enough energy and time and money to recover/

just wanted to share my idea and some information and opinion

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that one and tmorph have never been allowed ever since MoP,anyone using it deserveā€™s a ban.

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how about you perma the bots across all versions of the game instead

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so please unban my account that got Caught in the crossfire , been trying for more than e year to Apply witouth a answer that whas not a BOT

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If this ends up working ā€œas wellā€ as the actions taken against ā€œmultiboxersā€ and the thousands of bots across all versions but especially in Classic, then it might not be worth the effort at all. :wink:

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Yeah, no, i donā€™t think this is true. I can name 5-6 individuals who i have been reporting (many times) during the whole course of Shadowlands expansion. Iā€™ve sent numerous emails to hacks@blizzard.com with details and pictures of them cheating. No actions were taken against them.
Iā€™ve been hopeful in recent weeks when I started receiving emails frequently from Blizzard, that actions were taken against bots. But then again i started to notice bots, who iā€™ve already reported numerous times, are still there botting for months (with their entirely made out of bots guilds).

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They had always been banned before.

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I received a 7-month ban two months ago for ā€œthird-party software or hacks.ā€ However, I do not use any unauthorized software at all.

I do manually multibox without any enhancements, and I get reported by other players dailyā€”either because they assume Iā€™m a bot due to having four characters on /follow, or because they mistakenly believe multiboxing itself is against the Terms of Service. Many players arenā€™t aware that itā€™s only multiboxing software thatā€™s prohibited, not manual multiboxing.

Interestingly, just two days after my ban, many American multiboxers also received temporary permanent bans, which were later reversed after being identified as an error.

Additionally, I had spent several million gold on game time tokens in Cataclysm Classic just two days before the ban.

Itā€™s extremely frustrating to be accused of using unauthorized software when I simply donā€™t use anyā€”not in WoW, nor in any other game.

It seems likely that one of the following triggered the ban:

  • A recent Anti-Cheat update may have flagged manual multiboxing incorrectly.

  • I received too many bot reports from other players.

  • My transfer of millions of gold across my Battle.net WoW licenses to purchase game time may have appeared suspicious.

I respectfully request a thorough review of my case. I know this ban was issued in error, and I hope it can be resolved fairly.

You just keep telling me in my appeals how ā€œunauthorized 3rd party software was detectedā€ and for some reason " In this case, this account was closed because it was involved, either directly or indirectly, with the unauthorized exchange of in-game property for ā€œreal-worldā€ currency." which is also nonsense, surely you have logs to browse to find thats nonsense, this indicates how low effort was made because your ticket reply is not even about the correct reason.

IĀ“m still playing WoW with new license in same system, same game installation, same software and zero changes made to anything.
Nothing is detected because there is nothing to detect, you made mistake.

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Can you just give us a list of what is allowed and what isnā€™t.

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Wintrading and matched matchmaking still allowed as it doesnĀ“t need a extra program right?
Als those cheaters still not banned btw. which shows us it is accepted and legal???

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hold on a second - so letā€™s say there is an addon that translate game into unsupported language i.e. Polish language - then someone using that kind of addon will be banned? (It works like setting a layer over the text, not as changing files) also what about any addons that are reading text for you i.e. quests in quest window? It is the same stuff?

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So that I get that right, this would for example also mean using WoW Model Viewer to extract game models for fan animations is as well prohibited?