These pieces of proof—along with the encouragement from the WoW community on Reddit—came in useful as Blizzard responded to the player more quickly than normal, fixed the problem, and gave Shamm-Bamm back control of the account.
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Blizzard Entertainment has come under fire from a World of Warcraft Classic player who claims they wrongly banned them after mistakenly labeling their account as a bot. Last night, a user going by the name of Shamm-Bamm posted to the Classic WoW subreddit to let the community know about their problems.
They said that while working for the game’s most difficult accomplishment, Insane in the Membrane, their account had been accidentally permabanned. Thankfully, according to the player, they were unbanned, but not before suffering from a few migraines and missing a raid night. If you need more information about A WoW player who achieved the hardest achievement in the game’s grinding was mistaken for a bot and wrongfully banned, then read carefully, and don’t forget to share with your friends.
One of the most challenging achievements in the history of World of Warcraft to obtain is Insane in the Membrane, which calls for you to obtain Honored with one reputation and Exalted with six different reputations. You’ll need to spend a lot of time in areas like Gadgetzan, Booty Bay, and other comparable goblin-controlled zones farming mobs for hours on end in order to even scratch the surface of the achievement because the reputations necessary are primarily aligned with or against the pirate- and goblin-focused Steamwheedle Cartel faction.
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Additionally, you’ll need to farm dungeons to acquire the rare item drops required for the Darkmoon Faire reputation requirement and the Heavy Junkboxes required to finish the Ravenholdt reputation grind. The biggest issue Shamm-Bamm faced during the achievement was at that point.
They were apparently banned because the game identified their frequent dungeon entering and exiting as bot-like behavior. While it is true that many WoW Classic bots repeatedly run dungeons, Shamm-Bamm’s actions were entirely compliant with the TOS given that they assert to have no third-party software installed on their computer and that all actions taken regarding the account were carried out manually.
“I have never broken TOS in this game and have been playing since the launch of Classic it’s pretty ridiculous how this happens,” Shamm-Bamm said in their post. “I am guessing me resetting those dungeons flagged me or something. I remember seeing someone else post something similar to what happened while they were farming this.”
WoW, Classic has been plagued by bots and hackers in recent months as a result of the widespread use of speed-leveling and gold-farming bots. It’s possible that Blizzard’s anti-botting tools immediately identified this player’s behavior as being similar to that of a bot and swiftly imposed an arbitrary ban. Fortunately, Shamm-Bamm had a ton of screenshots and proof that they were really farming the accomplishment in the traditional manner. Additionally, the player asserts that any guild member might attest to them because they have been sharing their progress on the grind for weeks.
These pieces of proof—along with the encouragement from the WoW community on Reddit—came in useful as Blizzard responded to the player more quickly than normal, fixed the problem, and gave Shamm-Bamm back control of the account.
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