Blizzard Ticket Number: US71075460 (screenshots are included along with a list of everyone in the BG and their server). In the ticket I also included the time of day of the Alterac Valley match so that Blizzard can review the chat log.
I waited 48 hours from the time this happened to make this post. #1 Because I wanted the punishment from Blizzard to expire. #2 I wanted to research more into it to find out what happened.
I have removed the player’s name from this story to avoid the post getting taken down.
AV threat - “PASS ME LEAD RIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!”
So I’m playing Alterac Valley and I receive a whisper. A player says “Pass me lead now!” I replied “We’re doing good this AV, and I do not want raid warnings popping up on my screen…so no.” He then responds “PASS ME LEAD RIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!” I replied “No”. I haven’t done anything wrong…so what can he possibly do to me? Within a minute of refusing to pass Raid Leader the second time…I was logged off of my World of Warcraft account.
I tried multiple times to log back into World of Warcraft but it kept saying “Character with that name already exists and you cannot log in.” After trying to log in for about 5 minutes over and over I was finally able to log in. When I entered Alterac Valley again I was met with a whisper from the guy saying “I warned you. If you don’t do exactly what I tell you to do in the future you will get kicked again. Enjoy being squelched.” I then replied to him but the message didn’t go through. Maybe he ignored me. What does he mean by squelch?
I then messaged a friend of mine to find out what squelch meant but the message didn’t go through. I then tried to message another friend and that message didn’t go through either. I thought “Maybe this guy got me banned from sending whispers.” So I said screw it…and tried to look for a group in the LFG chat channel but I couldn’t post there either. I then realized what he meant…he meant that my account is unable to talk to any other accounts. I then went to the forums to post about this issue, but when I tried to log into the forums it said “Your account has been silenced and you cannot post on the forums.”
After doing a lot of research I realized what they did. A group of them were in a discord (or some other social platform) call. When I refused to pass lead he told the group in discord to mass report me to Blizzard for things that I did not do. Knowing that would get my account removed from the battlegrounds and punished. I did not know that players can threaten other players in battlegrounds and have their accounts punished for things they never did without any type of punishment for the people making the false reports. I certainly did not think that my account would be silenced for 24 hours for simply refusing to give into someones demands.
My account now has been punished for 24 hours. So the next time I refuse to do what someone in game demands me to do…my account will be punished for 48 hours. I think that the people who engage in threatening others should be punished…not me.
i started a thread about this exact thing…the right click report is being abused and activision doesn’t care at all. The same thing has happened to me two different times. This should be a bannable offence
It really seems like Blizzard is completely comfortable with bullying behavior so long as it originates from “elitist” groups. Keep in mind, the man who runs the company was himself an “Elitist Jerk”…
I’ve been talking about this for years in HotS where it’s abused like crazy. Even with the clear damage it’s done in that game, people still cling to the ‘if you got silenced, you deserve it’.
And that should tell you all you need to know- it’s been there for years in HotS, and nothing has changed. So, don’t expect them to change it here.
Silence penalty is the worst thing Blizzard ever came up with. And dont believe for a second that “its not fully automated” or that a “live GM checks every ban and will review on any request” because that is 100% LIES.
Silence mafia is the reason I quit retail years ago. When people were selling silences to other players or guilds.
And dont even get me started on Overwatch or Heroes of the Storm (I dont like the skin you’re using. You have been Silenced.).
This is true. They will also get you suspended from the forums when you “troll” but are able to come here constantly trolling, gloating, and name calling the other faction and get away with it.
I believed you then (still do, now) and was equally harassed, for having such a thought. To the point, people were reporting me on the Forums, in attempts to “shut me up”. All I can do is just laugh about it, now. I just want to say that I may be crazy, but don’t say we didn’t warn you. It’s a lot worse on the Forums, though, as a Casual, than in the Game, for me.
However, I still believe the Report Feature is being abused, in the Game. I just don’t play the Game competitively, so it’s easier for me to avoid those Reports. Very difficult on the Forums though. Simply disagreeing and not following the “popular” opinion is Report worthy. Anything to ruin other people’s lives, I guess.
It’s OK, at the end of the day, IK that you and I were right, and the ones with the last laugh, in the end. It’s just comical, at this point. Those that appear crazy may not actually be crazy…
I think you are wrong about this Glinda. In AV raid lead is assigned randomly. Some people pass lead. Some people attempt to lead. Many people just ignore it. Since when is there some un-official team lead that is supposed to get the random raid-leader job? It’s a game. No one should ever be subjected to bullying.
Yeah I don’t get it, just pass lead or give out assists. I pass out lead in dungeons and world pvp groups all the time. Team > Me and I know I’m a subpar leader.
You give assist to everyone… That’s fine, thats what you do. Others may not bother. That’s fine too. If a raid is created by players, those players get to decide who leads it. In this case the raid is just created by the system - and lead is random. Anyone can do as they please.
The moment someone makes a demand of me in game, I guarantee my answer will be NO. I don’t like authoritarians. And this game is of no real consequence anyway.