11-08-2006, 12:10 AM
I've been doing a fair amount of playing in BGs with my rogue lately and on many occasions I've seen people AFK for 15+ minutes while the rest of the team is going about their business trying to accomplish tasks and such in the BG. When I see this kind of behavior, I report the person in a short note under the physical harassment category.
I wanted to share a couple of my experiences on this topic.
1) person standing in the AV cave and mouthing off about not helping the entire AV in the /bg channel. I Reported them and told them in /bg I had done so and would ask them if I saw them later what happened. A few days later I saw the guy in an AB (actually playing and helping). He was nice about letting me know he got a 3 hour suspension. He said he didn't blame me for reporting him, and that he was kind of curious what would happen as well.
2) I always report people AFK in the defiler den in AB. I report people after it's very clear they've been there for a long time (10-15 minutes in and they are 0 / 0 / 0 but with a bonus honor total that indicates they've been in the BG since the beginning.) On a day of serious PvPing I might see 2 of these or so. Today I reported someone for the third time in the last week. I also happened to catch one of the more informative GMs on this particular ticket who said something to the extent of:
"Thank you for bringing this exploiter to our attention, do you have a minute to talk about your ticket?"
as an opening line. This is definitely the most forward a GM has ever been with me, calling the person an exploiter right out of the gate. Near the end of the conversation, the GM said something akin to this:
"Apparently he didn't get the hint the last time, and I assure you he won't have the opportunity to make the same mistake again"
Ouch. It's good to know something happens though. I was doing a bit of wondering if my tickets were accomplishing anything before I started getting this kind of feedback. I thought it might be of some interest to others to know that submitting tickets about these kinds of people ARE valuable.
I wanted to share a couple of my experiences on this topic.
1) person standing in the AV cave and mouthing off about not helping the entire AV in the /bg channel. I Reported them and told them in /bg I had done so and would ask them if I saw them later what happened. A few days later I saw the guy in an AB (actually playing and helping). He was nice about letting me know he got a 3 hour suspension. He said he didn't blame me for reporting him, and that he was kind of curious what would happen as well.
2) I always report people AFK in the defiler den in AB. I report people after it's very clear they've been there for a long time (10-15 minutes in and they are 0 / 0 / 0 but with a bonus honor total that indicates they've been in the BG since the beginning.) On a day of serious PvPing I might see 2 of these or so. Today I reported someone for the third time in the last week. I also happened to catch one of the more informative GMs on this particular ticket who said something to the extent of:
"Thank you for bringing this exploiter to our attention, do you have a minute to talk about your ticket?"
as an opening line. This is definitely the most forward a GM has ever been with me, calling the person an exploiter right out of the gate. Near the end of the conversation, the GM said something akin to this:
"Apparently he didn't get the hint the last time, and I assure you he won't have the opportunity to make the same mistake again"
Ouch. It's good to know something happens though. I was doing a bit of wondering if my tickets were accomplishing anything before I started getting this kind of feedback. I thought it might be of some interest to others to know that submitting tickets about these kinds of people ARE valuable.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.