Originally Posted by
endersblade
Meh, I didn't plan on responding to this OP, but this made me.
So I have the app on my phone that requires using a stupid code to sign in and all that, before that it was the keychain, so I highly, highly doubt anyone hacked my account and used it without me knowing. In the past, I was a botter, but not on this account, and not any time in the recent past - I think Cata was the last time I did it, and I don't have that account anymore. I have two accounts now, both of them are clean as far as that goes. I have had absolute zero issues on either account up until this initial shut-down for 3rd party software. Blizzard of course would never give me a straight answer as to what exactly was triggering this. I even went so far as to wipe my hard drive, I got a solid state, and reinstalled everything from scratch. That's when the second 6 month hit me. Absolutely clean drive, WoW plus addons were the only thing installed, which I carried over from my backup drive.
The ONLY thing I could think of is that I had some sort of addon that has been flagged as a bad juju addon, and was getting loaded up. I've had the same backup folder of addons since...fuck, BC? But it still doesn't explain why I was able to play ~3 expansions without a single issue, and then just suddenly out of the blue get hit. My second account is still in good standing. I actually continued to play it WHILE the other, main account was banned. Never got hit on that one, using the same exact addons.
If I'd just gotten hit for botting or for using something I was intentionally using, I wouldn't be here making this post, and I would never have made the original one like 8 months ago. I'd take my licks and move on, as I've done in the past. It just completely floored me that I got a 6 month hit like that out of the blue. And then getting a year-ish long ban WHILE already on a 6 month ban? C'mon, why don't you just permanently ban the account at this point lol.
Any theory I come up with just gets busted by the fact my second account never got hit. I have two accounts because I used to dualbox a tank + healer in dungeons, back when level 80/81/84 twinking with MoP BoE blues was a thing. That died when WoD came out. I played all of WoD perfectly fine, I leveled up all 20 or so of my characters through it from both accounts.
You guys can slander me and hate me all you want, saying I'm a cheater and that I got my just desserts, I don't care at all. I'm not looking for sympathy, especially from MMO-C. You guys are ruthless and bloodthirsty, I've been here long enough to know that! I'm just stating for the record, for the tl;dr, that if I HAD done something, I would own up to it, never would've made the post, and nobody would be reading this right now. Something screwy happened, and now my account is locked until middle of next year, I have no idea why, or why time was added onto it. I just made this OP because I thought it was funny and wanted to share my experience.