FF14 has a “GM Jail” system where a player will be yeeted from whatever they’re doing, and confronted in a jail cell by a GM. An example below (starts at 47 seconds):
While the GM’s comments appear to be templated, this scenario is what I would consider very “impactful” and “personal”; having to stand in front of a GM and acknowledge you screwed up, rather than reading faceless tickets or emails.
I’d like to see Blizz put the GM Jail concept into WoW.
Most of the responses are the usual customer support, click to answer type of responses but they can put their own as well. There was one video of a GM that wrote a poem about forcing someone to change their name lol.
True I 100% Hope they do this. The support for wow customer service sucks butt and its blizzard sided, the customer always gets the backhand or silent treatment. It’s barbaric and old school, that’s why I’m moving to FF14 permanently once my sub lapses. I have been harassed, scammed, and told sexist things. Over there they nip this in the bud and it’s no issue.
On WoW they know they can get away with this with a little slap on the wrist or get away with it for a long time before anything happens.
Also, the new update for reporting a player doesn’t even apply to the ticket system for reports lmao! Its whack. And for both scams, I have been given the exact same templated response, even when I said “I Know I won’t get my gold back” So lazy.
Yeah just what we need…Biased GM’s playing mr politics and yanking us from content because we respectfully disagreed with what someone was saying in trade chat - and four people reported us at the same exact time for it. Wow community and FF community are not the same. And the GM’s that are employed at Blizzard are totally different from FF GM’s as well…or at least the direction the receive is completely different.
A more proper solution - is routing re-opened or escalated tickets to an actual escalation path - and NOT the GM that originally handled the initial ticket in the first place. There is literally no way to get above someone when treated unfairly. No way to raise things to the next level, unless they deem that you should be able to. And when they’re just covering their own tracks, they will threaten you not to re-open the ticket again and immediately close it.
Blizzard customer service, quite honestly, gets a 0/10 from me (as a 15-year player and supporter of their services).
You think WoW’s employee base is a good thing to give power to?
These are people who have consistently failed every single job they’ve been given.
Blizzard isn’t Square Enix. Blizzard is sexual assault and multiple lawsuits Blizzard. They’ll do whatever they think makes them look good even if it’s wrong.
I’m having troubles processing your message.
Are you implying that Blizz doesn’t already have any power over your account? O_o
WoW players aren’t as mature as Final Fantasy players. We’ll just log out the second we see where we are.
ArcheAge had an interesting system.
How bout NO… We need more freedom not thought police jails.
long ago, GM Island hosted an interrogation cell.
i can’t think of a joke so: Xinjian
Ready to defend your beloved square enix?
Publicly for everyone to see? No they definitely do not.
They “do”, but if they acted on it, they’d most likely be facing federal litigation on top of civil litigation worth more than Blizzard’s currently worth, which seems to be a number dropping massively every day. (Sorry to the folks who believed in them, maybe that stock bounces back after their next trial! D:)
Now could they easily go in and just shut down every single person who disagrees with them? Yup. But would they? Nope. Because they know how that’ll end.
Blizzard’s at the end. They’re hated and despised by the gaming community, they don’t have a single decent product up to save them, and their entire hierarchy is filled with people facing sexual assault allegations or abuse allegations. CoD flopped. WoW flopped for 8 years straight almost. Overwatch flopped. Every single thing that Activision Blizzard touches, dies. But hey, they make a lot of money off of it before it dies, so I guess that’s reason to celebrate, right?!
did they do that with gm island once
till players purposely to see if it was true then the game masters said enough?
Should be a spot in Stormwind Stockades for Alliance or U/G Orgrimmar for Horde where they just get teleported and stuck there without a hearth or ability to leave until the ban is done.
like the talking or just being placed there and no gm showing up?
As someone who played a healthy amount of FF14 befores coming back heres for a bit, let me explains:
Generally speakin’, if a GM caught yous saying some questionable stuffs in /shout for examples (It’s like a chat channel where everyone can see it in an area. Populars in big cities like Ul’dah) you’d be yeeted into a cell to have a little conversations with a GM, who’ll be like, “No. BAD. Don’t do thats!” Usually for minor infractions.
…I dunnos how I evaded the gaol myselves, I’ve said some raunchy things in my times!
Anyhoo, I always found GM interactions fun whens I had 'em way backs in the day, so I think this would be fine. Not that I’d do anythings to warrent such a talks anyways.
i do miss the old gms even when they leave they ask anything more i can do
most of the time if you are nice they might grant the request and if its not dumb
God could you imagine WoW’s edgelords if they were pulled into a room and asked to be polite?
The last few weeks here you’ve seen them throwing fits over the social contract.
I hope Blizzard implements this, the rage from the edgelords would be quality entertainment
Thematically I find that to be a pretty cool, and fun interaction. It’s just a physical extension of the RP that GMs already play into.
That said, I don’t think it would have any impact at all on whether or not someone violates rules. It wouldn’t change a thing.
Lmao people thinking you can sue a video game company for banning you will never stop being funny.
This, the second clowns like the previously quoted were pulled aside for breaking the rules they’d start ranting about their freedums and calling anything in earshot woke.
I mean if that gets them perma-banned then I’m all for it, but I wouldn’t want to have to deal with them as a GM.