[MERGED: Bannings] Wanna see ANet ppl right here, right now ! (this is insane)

Originally Posted by dr_james2k

The assasain dance makes you look like a robot, so this is obviously the fault.

Originally Posted by Hengis Stone

Having read through this thread and the similar ones on other GW Forums, my guess as to what happened is as follows:

1) The team working on bot detection tightened up their parameters on what is and isn't detected as being a bot. One of those parameters is how much time is spent "playing" the game during a week.

2) The Dragon event encouraged people to behave in a very bot like manner by being AFK on the rings game for 24/7 in order to gain the Lucky/Unlucky titles.

This would seem to me to indicate a lack of internal communications at ANet who should have predicted that people would spend several days AFK in order to gain the new titles, however at the same time the bot detection team tightened up their detection system and accidentally detected lots of people playing more than a "normal" amount of time over the last week.

I too was AFK on the rings for long enough to gain the Lucky/Hapless titles, so I am actually dreading going home from work tonight to see if my account has been caught up in these bans. I am actually betting it has been...

It would probably have been sensible PR to blanket unban ALL the accounts that were banned last night. Those accounts that really are bots will be caught again next week, and those people who occasionally use bots but are mostly legitimate players would also have had a wake up call showing them that bots are now being actively hunted down, so it would have been a win/win for ANet.

Just my opinions and guesses of course.

Originally Posted by halire

I got banned! The day after I get my 15k armor! I spent day and night farming for that armor and the day I get it, I finally go to sleep and when I wake up I get banned. I am sorry but this makes me very upset. Is there any sort of way that I can get my account unbanned?