That’s Necronomica’s point, that they could if they wanted just vector those 100 GE rewards at you or me or anyone else if that was Gaijin’s policy. All they’d have to do is put the target’s player ID as their referral link.
But yeah, odds are is it’s just one guy with access to a server cluster and a bot script who’s been making a nice little 10,000 GE/day income from it. Use that GE to buy ALL da GE premiumz then sell THAT account would seem the obvious monetization route here.
Pretty sure Gaijin can easily trace this and ban the main account (who invited hundreds of “players”) too. Since creating multiple accounts is against the rules aswell. And there is obvious intent.
So, 5,000 accounts this report, 2,500 more naval bot accounts in the Nov report, all using the same basic botscript and naming convention. So if referral IS the game… were any of the referral accounts banned as well? That’s why I’m saying Gaijin should say something a little more at this point, if that’s their theory of the crime.
If it’s not, if there’s no pattern in the referral accounts to action, then it’s basically just a quasi-DDOS/for-kicks thing on someone’s part, which is both better and worse in some ways.
I hope they’re looking into accounts with a large number of referrals. Chances are it’s suspect.
Bassssssseeeed
I think I got banned because of using razer cortex 😭
I would never cheat, I spent over $15000 so I would never even attempt to jeopardize my account
Please contact support about your ban. The forums cannot help here.
true, i am waiting for their response
Very much appreciate, thank you.
I think after 7,500-ish bans over three months, over half their total number of player bans in that time, were bans of basically the same player, or the same small group of players, using the same botscript over and over, Gaijin should say a little more, more than just listing their banned aliases, about what is obviously a very specific problem by a very small number of bad actors who are hurting players and their business, and tell us why they can’t address it more effectively. Or will we just get another 2,500 bans a month like this from now on ever after and NRB ~BR. 3.7 will just continue to be a sh*t experience on NA?
peak yo i had someone from taiwan get into my account. already got access back. but guess the bot farmers got mad
If you spent that much on this game, you wouldn’t need some dodgy software trying to boost your frames, you’d have invested in your hardware to ensure that your frames are plentiful.
Dude, I downloaded razer synapse software for my new headphones yesterday and razer automatically downloaded cortex too and it ran without my intent
Wouldn’t happen with Audio-Technica
This doesn’t really make sense though, The player that made the referral only gets SL unless the new account also turns on 2FA AND makes a Purchase of rank 4 or higher (they get 100 GE) or a purchase of rank VII or higher (they 2500 GE). At that point, if you’re doing it for the GE and premiums, why not just buy the GE and premiums on the “main” account to begin with?
I tried to get an estimate of how many recently returning cheaters are banned. I therefore decided to look for the start of the IDs with a 2 at the front. And right there I found this player, added in april 2025, basically 9 months ago. Newer than him are 75% of the ban list.
But what I find odd is this: His account played 30 min altogether. Probably newby battles. But he got banned. After 9 months! Does that make sense to you?
Ok, so let’s work it through.
It’s been 3 months, 7,500 bans. Every account played a Leopard long enough and well enough to easily research German bluewater tech tree up to rank 4 and buy a rank 4 tech tree boat by playing 24/7 til Gaijin cuts them out. That gets you 100 GE plus SL on referral. There’s no 2500 GE award in naval anymore due to previous GE farming.
So in three months that’s 750,000 GE that was farmed. Use referral links to chunk that out to 15 fresh accounts with 50,000 starter GE on each. Sell those accounts for their GE value (say $200). Gross profit of $3000 in three months. Only victim is NRB.
The alternative, as mentioned, is pure maliciousness. The only way to really stop it unless the farmer makes a mistake would be to close those referred accounts, or close bluewater to brand new players.
This still.
Also: It would be interesting to look for a pattern in the joining dates and the ban waves. Like if the number of players that join shortly after a ban wave is significantly higher than that in other time spans.
