A WoW player’s account has been banned. Unfortunately, it appears he doesn’t even play WoW .
It is well known that Blizzard regularly excludes cheaters, hackers, and other fraudsters from the game – but now it seems a player has come under scrutiny who hasn’t even played World of Warcraft.
On Reddit, the user TimiNax reported that he has now received a message in the Battle.net client that his account has been excluded from World of Warcraft. But what happened? Did he cheat or did something else to become unpopular? Neither – TimiNax didn’t own World of Warcraft at all. Therefore, he was all the more surprised to read this message. After all, he only uses his account for Overwatch and Hearthstone.
The solution to the riddle seems to be that TimiNax recently bought a second-hand PC and that it was banned due to its hardware ID. Blizzard may have already associated the PC with a “fraudulent” account and immediately banned the new account as a precaution. A response from Blizzard is still pending.
Update: As it turns out, there is indeed a World of Warcraft license on TimiNax’s account, but the ban has now been lifted by Blizzard. How he got hold of this account, he himself does not know. He suspects that a botter or cheater may have created an account in his name… but – hmm, perhaps a case of selective internet amnesia.
Warlocks in World of Warcraft, by the way, are in desperate need of help.
