Thelrok.7354

Hey! I am a returning player with experience in commanding, zerg busting, havoc, and all that fun stuff. I am currently on Crystal Desert, but am an OG of SBI, but I am open to changing servers. I'm not very interested in joining a guild on a server that is already full, unorganized, or toxic. Currently, I play condi rev frontline, but I also have a lot of experience with backline power rev, core guardian, soulbeast, and mirage. In the NA central timezone, but I tend to play late. HMU in-game Thelrok.7345.

right here: Can you link the source ? It's the Code of Conduct, which you have read and agreed to. At least, I'd hope. Can you link :3 or put a screen shot? Because that's pvp seems like spvpYou said it seems like sPvP. But it's clearly not sPvP. It does not say "Structured Player-vs-Player". They said "PvP gameplay". Are you implying that WvW does not contain any PvP gameplay? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/ Well based on 22 all who afk are breaching terms bro. For pip s. Also there's no ladder in wvw because there is no tournament. Also actively participating this is a catch all. You afk, you breach. You gvg you breach. You do right club you breach.I mean, it is if the server is full. Otherwise, it isn't because you aren't taking the place of someone who is actually trying to play. Also, there is a ladder. There is literally a WvW leaderboard and people involved pay attention to world rankings. That's also not important because it's an OR. Manipulating a match is enough, but you're probably going to say that weekly "matchups" aren't a "match". To that, I'm not sure if it's hilarious or sad that you actually think that. There are other clauses within the terms of service that could be applied to any of this kind of behavior. They are written intentionally broad and just because something you like isn't explicitly defined, that doesn't mean it isn't covered especially in cases where it is damaging to other people's experience and Guild Wars as a brand.

right here: And here youre wrong. Thing you quoted is about sPvP, not WvW. in any form of match manipulationMatch manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladderactively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching Match manipulation, leeching, rankings and ratings of the ladder exist in sPvP, not WvW. WvW is not sPvP, and sPvP is not WvW ;) Ahh, you're a lawyer, I see. I guess I've been defeated by restricting intentionally broad terminology to what is convenient for one's purpose.

right here: Can you link the source ?It's the Code of Conduct, which you have read and agreed to. At least, I'd hope. Asking for it suggests otherwise.

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Of course that's also always a possibility, and should be all the more reason for punishing a player. In our current situation I actually had a serious talk with the player pulling off things like this (I assume that what I screenshotted above was also his doing) and he told me all about these issues he has with some leading figure on their server and apparently does this as a form of protest... Either way there should be rules against this sort of behavior. There's no justification for it. Technically, there are rules against this sort of behavior, they just aren't enforced. A simple solution that would be effective is to just IP/hardware ban every account that does this kind of thing or at least disabling the ability of people who troll to queue for WvW (not on a per-account basis but on a per-IP basis). It would also ease the burden on support, because they'd have less tickets to deal with from repeat offenders. Unfortunately, it will never happen. These problems have existed since the game released. There's no reason for anyone to fear punishment from anet for ruining other people's experience out of spite. Worst case scenario is a throw away account gets a short temp ban if they do something extremely egregious. Ip ban is too much. Such should be reserved to hackers If you just account ban, you limit your ban to the offending accounts, which are just throw aways. It doesn't actually solve anything. An IP ban gives actual punishment because, you know, you can't just log in on a different account and keep doing it with zero risk to the primary account. Additionally, I'd argue exploiting the system in this manner is on-par with hacking in severity because it ruins the experience and creates an unfair advantage with zero ability to combat this kind of behavior. It accomplishes everything that hacking does.

Of course that's also always a possibility, and should be all the more reason for punishing a player. In our current situation I actually had a serious talk with the player pulling off things like this (I assume that what I screenshotted above was also his doing) and he told me all about these issues he has with some leading figure on their server and apparently does this as a form of protest... Either way there should be rules against this sort of behavior. There's no justification for it. Technically, there are rules against this sort of behavior, they just aren't enforced. A simple solution that would be effective is to just IP/hardware ban every account that does this kind of thing or at least disabling the ability of people who troll to queue for WvW (not on a per-account basis but on a per-IP basis). It would also ease the burden on support, because they'd have less tickets to deal with from repeat offenders. Unfortunately, it will never happen. These problems have existed since the game released. There's no reason for anyone to fear punishment from anet for ruining other people's experience out of spite. Worst case scenario is a throw away account gets a short temp ban if they do something extremely egregious.