WOW - Over 114,000 Accounts Banned In April : World of Warcraft General Discussions

Blizzard EU has made this announcement for us today highlighting the accounts that have been closed due to cheating, have a listen...

In our continued efforts to combat cheating in World of Warcraft, more than 114,000 accounts have been closed across Europe in the month of April for the use of “bot” programs. The banned accounts were taking part in activities that violate the World of Warcraft Terms of Use, specifically, using unauthorized third party programs to automate game-play. Such behavior not only negatively impacts the game’s economy, it diminishes the achievements of those who play legitimately.

It is our goal to provide a fair and enjoyable play experience for all World of Warcraft players. To aid us, we ask that you abide by the Terms of Use, which, among other things, provide for the security of your account details, payment methods and login information, all of which can be compromised if you choose to use third-party services or programs.

Over the coming months, we will continue to take an active and aggressive stance against botting, as well as work to resolve other issues such as in-game advertising for the sale of World of Warcraft content and for-pay power-leveling services. Many account closures come as the direct result of tips reported to our GMs in game or emailed to our Hacks Team by legitimate World of Warcraft players, and we thank you for your assistance in preserving the integrity of the game experience.

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I think Blizzard is actually working with certain gold sellers like IGE and the like.

I think Blizzard allows them to buy gold from and sell gold to players as long as IGE gives them a list of the players who do it.

So Blizzard gets to ban all the players who are breaking the TOS (and probably make a lot of money from people who re-buy WoW) and IGE gets to keep making it's money, too.

possible, but not probable. anyways, it said most of them were banned for botting, im not sure how many people got banned for buying gold, if any.

I disagree, if any of you have gotten tells from ww.peonsforhire.com or whatever the site is, blizzard made it so you can't say peons4hire, but now instead the peonsforhire people just say p3ons4hire, soon blizz will fix that as well