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A fresh ban wave rolled through World of Warcraft this week, hammering accounts for both cheating-tool detections and boosting. If you woke up to a blank login screen or a “Game License Suspended” e-mail, you’re not alone. A ban wave is Blizzard’s periodic, all-at-once action that removes flagged accounts in bulk rather than one by one. Instead of real-time penalties, …
For the past few days, there’s been an ongoing Diablo 4 ban wave for botting, starting as of June 13. This takes place almost a month after Blizzard issued a ban wave for WoW as well, back on May 16, albeit for boosting. Nonetheless, the current Diablo 4 ban wave is taking place about 7 days after the game’s official …
WoW ban waves have been quite scarce lately. However, that changed today, on May 16th, when Blizzard issued quite a significant one, due to allegations of boosting. Boosting bans in WoW are some of the most common types of penalties, ranking alongside third-party usage and real-money transactions (as in, gold selling or buying). This comes as a surprise to many …
Ban waves haven’t been what they used to be for quite a while now. And, apart from waves of WoW account bans every now and then, they’ve been quite scarce. But, that until today, March 10th, when Bungie issued a massive ban wave for players suspected of using “account recovery” services. What is Account Recovery in Destiny 2? For those …
It seems that Blizzard has issued its first ever WoW Classic ban wave today, specifically for allegations of third party usage, commonly known as bots. This really goes to show how seriously Blizzard takes cheating and botting in WoW Classic, as this current and first ban wave happened merely 3 weeks after release. That’s of course not to say that …
