This morning, I received a form letter via e-mail saying that my account was suspended for advertising/spamming. I don’t have anything to advertise and I have never spammed anyone. I have never so much as used foul language in chat.

I’m a 41 year old woman who was learning how to play WoW with a friend. I have nothing whatsoever to spam about, nor do I have anything to do with anything that I would be advertising. I’ve never done anything inappropriate in the game. It seems to me this has to be either an outright mistake, my account was hacked while I was sleeping last night, or Blizzard is scamming me out of a lot of money if I want to keep playing the game.

Today I wanted to log in but it wasn’t able. I immediatly checked my e-mail and saw that I had one that said that I changed my password which I hadn’t. I changed it, wrote an e-mail and started playing. I then had to check something on the net so I logged off. When I wanted to log on I couldn’t because I was banned for in-game chat disruption. The thing is I was in bed sleeping when that happened.

I’ve been playing for a while and have several character of high level. Also, I am a student so don’t have a lot of money. Why would I then jeopardise it all just for laughs and giggles. It’s a lot of work to level up and I would not just throw it and my money away.

This has put me off from WOW and I think that today was my last gameday.

” This account was closed because a character on the account repeatedly abused World of Warcraft’s in-game chat system. This abuse includes advertising third party services/websites and repeatedly spamming in-game chat channels. Abuse of this nature pollutes chat channels shared by all players and harms the game environment as a whole. ”

That would only be possible if I even chatted once in the game which I didn’t, didn’t even have a chance. I did not chat at all since there was no one present to chat with at the time and I wanted to lvl up to get a feel of the game.

I replied back to Blizzard regarding this and asked them to at the very least confirm and discribed why was I was really banned for and all I got was this reply :

“Thank you for your follow-up email. The information regarding the account WoW1 has been reviewed once again and the closure was indeed warranted.

As such, we regret to inform you that the account closure decision is final and the account status permanent. The World of Warcraft account will not be re-opened or re-activated under any circumstance. ”

I know Blizzard makes great games but if their MMORPG account service is handled in this matter where their banning system and customer service is such that they can banned you for no apparent reason or reasons for a fact that you did not commit. * I mean seriously, less then 15 mins, of loggin in after creating that new trial account. * What assurance does a consumer have of not getting banned without a true and just reason if he/she were to purchase such a service. The trial account experience really made me reconsider if Blizzard could be trusted in handling paid service fairly.

In a way, its giving your money to a crooked business. You know you’re gonna get backstabbed but you just don’t know when.

(i started to play again as soon a good friend of mine had bought the game)
2 days after I started He was banned He played for 2 days by then because of exploitation of the wow economy by selling something for real money what he didnt he waws lvl 5 what could he possibly sell.
well after I needed to fix it forum by sending them a mail again I got a reply in 20 minutes!

The problem was fixd and he could play now today bout 3 days after that on saturday I played (very long) and my friend and I sitting next to me were playin WoW we stopped at 23:00 cause we would go to my dad’s house now at 00:30 We wanted to log in again to do 1 last dungeon (vacation form school began today)
and now Im banned for a reason and I cant read my mail right now cause I only can do that at home I think it will be fixed but im getting quite sick of this cause we had 4 problems in 2 weeks and its getting very annoying.

Ignore the crap posted here by people that DID do this and got banned, removing them from the game means the others get a better experience. I’ve been playing since release, by the rules and as a result have not got banned.