Player is so nice that he gets banned

In World of Warcraft you can get banned for many reasons – but apparently also for being too friendly.

If you do mischief in World of Warcraft, you will usually be reported very quickly by your fellow players and will face a penalty in a timely manner. Everything from small warnings to long account bans is included. But there are always players who are wrongly banned, sometimes for the most absurd reasons.

In the WoW subreddit, a fairly popular player now reports that he was wrongly banned. The reason for this? He was just too nice and offered things for free that others would charge hundreds of thousands of gold pieces for.

Why was he banned? According to his own statements, Critzler was banned because of mass reports. The reason for this is not entirely clear, but upon closer consideration it seems obvious. Because Critzler helps people defeat the current final boss Fyrakk on heroic difficulty and thus achieve a special achievement.

This is a service that other guilds often advertise in the service channel and, depending on the additional services, want between 80,000 and 200,000 gold pieces per participant.

Since Critzler organizes these raids without asking for gold, he ensures lower income for the other guilds who want to earn money from them.

The assumption is therefore obvious: relevant guilds reported him en masse in order to achieve an automated ban. That this works has been proven again and again in recent months, for example in the case of the elementary loop cartel. Anyone who wanted to undercut the market was simply systematically reported by jewel cutters.

This is particularly annoying because Critzler repeatedly received automated answers when contacting customer service. In fact, the processing wait times were so long that the 10-day ban expired before he got a proper answer. This made it doubly annoying for Critzler, as he missed the entire Hearthstone event and some exclusive rewards.

Is that really true? Of course, it would be conceivable that there was another reason for the mass reports from the person concerned in this case. After all, there have been frequent cases in the past in which people have tried to take advantage of community calls in order to quickly be unblocked again.

However, since Critzler’s sentence has already expired and it seems that he wants to draw attention to the general problem of mass reporting, his story at least sounds plausible. In the comments, several people also mention him positively, whom he has already helped in obtaining the achievement for the current final boss.

In the past few months there have been repeated frustrating experiences reported by the community. Automated responses to tickets that do not deal with the case at all lead to anger and dissatisfaction.

It’s not just bans that take a long time in WoW – farming a toy also takes over 6 years.