r/Blizzard

I make this solemn vow to the Blizz I once knew, not what it is now. Wow used to be a massive fan of wow and all it had going for it. It had story, it had art, it gave me something to look forward to every two years! But after Battle of Azeroth was finished, everything has gone downhill or became lifeless. Characters felt hollow, things felt rushed, dear God shadow lands is the first expansion I felt was legitimately BAD, and this is coming from the guy who enjoyed warlords of Draenor. Because of this, I've found my fun in private servers, servers people put time and energy into, and had massive fun in them, starting with turtle wow..... And then you shut it down. Why? Because you were getting greedy and wanted the money they were making, don't even try to deny it. And now, you're trying to go after Ascension, which is practically the pinnacle of Private Server innovation?!... That tears it.

As an artist, that game has my support. It took what has become garbage since Activision took over and turned it into genuine gold again, and now you're trying to turn it into rusted scrap. That's where I draw the line. I am writing this comment now as a petition to everyone to join their signatures (nothing more than a simple "I" in the comments is necessary since obviously you don't want to lose your accounts anytime soon) here not as a threat but as a warning to blizz: If they shut down Ascension, we will shutdown our payments to blizz. Maybe it won't feel like much, maybe only the entirety of the ascension fan base will leave, but as a simple note, I leave this: if everyone who is a fan of ascension leaves, even going by the people who try to play daily, that's 40,000 players. 40,000 players will leave this game, taking their $15 monthly subs with them, and that's a solid $600,000 a month you'll lose in the process. And that's not even taking the larger side of the daily players into account which is around 60,000.

So I leave this.

If you don't want to explain to managers and business execs why the company is suddenly down half a million a month, there are two options for you: 1- create a system that links private servers to blizz so people playing on private servers still have to have a monthly subscription to wow to keep playing, which honestly benefits everyone.

2- drop the lawsuit and forget it. Cause with the amount of backlash you're already suffering from taking down TurtleWow, you're going to drive your business 6 feet under before 2030 at best...

Somebody stole my account not even reaching my mail he just changed my mail somehow and I lost my access. Then I create ticket to this 3 iq company's support. I provide game time code used in account, character names, photo of changed mail (the mail I contact with them is the mail acc was created) account creation date. They decided to not trust me and somehow they let the hacker change my mail without even asking to me. Trash company.

I'm posting this because I'm at my breaking point. I've been playing WoW for 20 years, including Retail – Midnight. I've never seen anything like this.

What's happening:

There's a community that has completely taken over the /services channel in WoW Retail – Midnight. They run 150-200 trial accounts (no subscription, no Midnight patch) that log in simultaneously, mass-report anyone outside their group, and log out again.

They don't even need to see your message. Their bot can:

• Report cross-realm (not normally possible in-game)
• Report cross-faction (not normally possible)
• Report by GUID (not by character name)

If you post ANY service in /services, you're silenced within 30 seconds. I timed it.

My personal experience:

In the past 2 weeks, I've been silenced 8 times in WoW Retail – Midnight.

Every single time:

• I open a ticket
• A GM reviews my case
• They confirm I did NOTHING wrong
• They overturn the penalty

Here's my penalty history (6 overturns shown, 2 more happened before):

Silenced – 22 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 23 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 24 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 25 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 26 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 27 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 28 Jun – Overturned
Silenced – 1 Jul – Overturned

And 2 more after that.

I've been proven innocent 8 times by Blizzard's own GMs. And I'm still being silenced.

The exploit:

This community has built a bot that abuses the reporting system. Their accounts are ALL level 10. They have no game time. They just exist to mass-report.

I've sent Blizzard:

• Screenshots of level 10 bot armies (hundreds of them)
• Video footage of them logging in together
• PDFs explaining the entire exploit
• Evidence that their own members can post freely while outsiders get silenced

Blizzard's response? "We've overturned your penalty" and "We're working on it."

But it's been 2+ months. Nothing changes.

The exploit:

This community has built a bot that abuses the reporting system. Their accounts are ALL level 10. They have no game time. They just exist to mass-report.

I've sent Blizzard:

• Screenshots of level 10 bot armies (hundreds of them)
• Video footage of them logging in together

Blizzard's response? "We've overturned your penalty" and "We're working on it."

But it's been 2+ months. Nothing changes.

The worst part:

I've heard from multiple people that this community charges a WEEKLY fee to allow you to post in /services. You pay them, and they "whitelist" you. Otherwise, you're silenced immediately.

I have screenshots of these conversations.

What I'm asking Blizzard to do:

1. Fix the reporting system – automated silences based on mass-reports are broken
2. Restrict /services to level 80+ – trial accounts should not be able to abuse this channel
3. Do not allow characters below level 80 to use the /services channel
4. Do not allow trial accounts (no expansion, no subscription) to use the report system at all
5. Investigate this community – cross-realm/cross-faction reporting is an exploit

These simple changes would stop 90% of this abuse instantly.

I'm paying for game time I can't use. My only hobby is being destroyed. And Blizzard's support team keeps removing my silence without fixing the actual problem.

I've done everything right. I've reported the bots. I've sent evidence. I've been patient. And I'm still being punished.

and more ...

u/BlizzardCS u/WoWDevs – please fix this. The /services channel in WoW Retail – Midnight is completely unusable for legitimate players.

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Who is the idiot that made it so you have to be logged into your authenticator...TO LOG IN TO YOUR AUTHENTICATOR! Honestly, I want to meet who hired you and chemically castrate them.Why the hell do I need to be logged in to log in? I cannot stress just how idiotic it is. Oh and all the support runs you in the same damn circles.

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I have never played WoW before and today was supposed to be my first day playing the game I was really excited to finally try it out but my experience with support has been super discouraging I bought a 20 Euro Blizzard Balance code but ran into a region error when redeeming it My main Battle net account is registered in Saudi Arabia SAR but in my launcher my game account is listed as WoW1 EU Since the code is EU and the game account is EU I thought support could help me out I opened a ticket and explained everything but the GM just gave me a quick copy paste response telling me to go back to the retailer for a refund because they cannot change currencies and then closed the ticket The retailer obviously won't refund a revealed digital code so now I am just stuck I am really disappointed because I thought support would be able to check that the code is unused cancel it and just manually add the balance or credit to my EU account which is a standard fix for region mix ups

As Tolkien gave us hobbits, so too did blizzard give us another brand new race with its own culture; Murlocs. Congratulations to Blizzard for this unrecognized achievement.