What is better than playing WoW alone? Of course: Playing World of Warcraft with someone you love. It’s just unfortunate when you wait for years, only for Blizzard to intervene suddenly.
What happened to Dad? Recently, the WoW player DroopingFig appeared on Reddit to ask the community for advice. Since the birth of his now 13-year-old son, he had been looking forward to exploring Azeroth together. When the time was ripe, he got an old PC running, set up a Battle.net account for his son, and bought a month of game time.
The plan was to show the young one the basics in the Season of Discovery of WoW Classic first, only to switch to WoW: The War Within when the interest was there. However, that didn’t happen at first.
The young one had only been online for a short time – his father was just guiding him through the starting area of Durotar, where pigs were to be slain – when the connection was interrupted. A notification clarified: The Battle.net account was permanently banned for allegedly violating the game’s terms of use. What a frustrating start…
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So what to do? That’s exactly what the frustrated dad was wondering at that moment. There were no issues with the payment for the game time, nor did he see any other reason for the account ban.
He hadn’t even given his son any gold or items from one of his accounts, as he had only sat down next to his son to guide him through the first minutes of gameplay. He didn’t find a way to quickly appeal the ban.
Contacting support through the account was initially not possible since it was banned. After some time, he found a way to create a ticket. The automated response (via Reddit) from Blizzard confirmed the ban but did not provide any details on the reason for the ban.
I am so disappointed that his first experience with the game ends this way, and I know that when the issue is resolved, his vacation will probably be over and the window of opportunity for this chance will have closed. I have been playing this game for almost 20 years and had been looking forward to experiencing it with someone from my family for over 13 years, and this was the worst that could happen.
DroopingFig on Reddit
What is the current status? Many players wanted to help and asked questions to bring possible reasons for the ban to light – such as the hardware used, the character name, or whether items had changed ownership. They also explained that one shouldn’t be discouraged by the automated Blizzard response from appealing the ban.
Various cases in the past have shown that it also helps to raise awareness of such a case on community platforms like Reddit. And indeed, DroopingFig provided an update in the original post:
“The account has been restored! I’m glad it was resolved, definitely frustrated by the process and still don’t know what the reason was or how I could have avoided it, but I’m glad I will be able to try again. Thank you for all the suggestions, advice, and encouragement that helped me resolve the issue!”
Have you ever been unjustly banned in WoW or another MMORPG? Were you able to resolve the issue? Share it in the comments. By the way, some WoW players come up with remarkable ideas to avoid being banned again: A player from World of Warcraft gets banned and builds an addon to prevent it from happening again
