GM Response to the AV Bans

Not taking sides. Just pointing out your statement was false.

Oppositional defiant disorder. There are people out there that will always try to argue the exact opposite of what your argument is, no matter how asinine that other position is.

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You are correct. Plus, the real problem is… what is like 10 people are defending and while everyone else is zugging those 10 just sit there and report all BG. Could you be going against the spirit of the team by not zugging but then the people actually reporting arent zugging.

That is why, in my opinion, doing AV just isn’t worth it anymore. You get punished based on who is willing to report who the most. Yeah, that doesn’t mean the reporters are banning people, but it does mean they are choosing who is getting investigated which can always eventually lead to something. Because from the spreadsheets eye it looks like well… the team didn’t want to zug zug…

As usual a whole lot of text is used to say NOTHING. Let me cut through all the useless drivel and explain it, something they won’t do. They suspend you when they see logs that have little to no damage/heal numbers. That is all it boils down to. People that defend lack numbers on the logs so they are the ones that get hit. If you always attack however, you are in far more combat so there is no risk of being wrongfully hit. Basically, do not defend unless you’ve already had plenty of action first. This is what Blizzard SHOULD be telling you but won’t, not even if they suspended you. All they will tell you in the ticket is that they “reviewed” it and won’t do anything, and to reference the equally useless EULA.

“No, it does not. The point of the original statement was directed more for someone who continually is defending the tower, for multiple games, where the group they are with may be employing different tactics, and doesn’t see value put on simply defending a tower. A tower, mind you, that might not be challenged at any point” - Vrakthis CM

If your group does not see value in what you’re doing, you put your self at risk. Again do as you like.

Where did they say that? They say they have more metrics then just simply the afk report

I know that guys text is blue but from what I can tell he just runs around saying “we right you wrong” in as many ways as possible but actually has no real power or knowledge on subjects. I mean all day yesterday he was telling people the wrong stuff and once exposed moved to the position of “I got nothing to do with this” although hours before he was EXTREMELY open to constantly talking about it.

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Are you choosing not to read, or just one of those people who choose to argue with others because your behind a monitor?

Blizz has been caught flat out lying many times in the past. You think one more lie means anything to fanboys?

Yes, you put yourself at risk of triggering one of the metrics the algorithm uses to assess non-interactive behaviour. That does not mean

Sure, perhaps that was too certain of a phrase. You can and possibly will be banned.

Again, if that’s something you’re ok with, then by all means do as you like. I, however, will be erring on the side of caution.

For sure won’t. You got green text hunters and just blind trolls. Of course its a little hotter now because 2/3rds of the player base is sitting in ques that… oddly enough… aren’t getting anything done for them either. Minus the “come on… transfer to that dead realm so you can pay us to come back if things ever come back to normal”

It would be more accurate to say that if you make a habit of getting the deserter debuff you have an increased chance of being actioned.

And that’s fair. There is obviously a flaw with the algorithms and I understand your risk-averse approach.

I think people in this thread are overreacting to the fact that that these algorithms exist, and a lot of the fear comes from not understanding how they work. They sound reasonable, in theory.

Defending towers is not afking

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I know that. Allow me to repeat myself.

I don’t afk in BGs all the time! And SHB/Farm/Fel Reaver are basically my in-game homes

And at what point does essentially just being a scare crow cross the line from contributing something to blatantly afking? When someone caps the tower from under your nose because you were watching netflix on the other monitor?

Streamers have gotten their viewers to mass report their characters as an experiment. Turns out that account actions are automated, and can happen instantly when people mass report.

Staysafe and Asmongold have put vids out proving that Blizzard did not tell the truth in that reply.

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It’s Bloomsday. He’s one of those people that likes to play Devil’s Advocate when no one needs or wants one.

Issue is many have varying views on how pvp should go. some get petty and false report.

you have what I call the meter maids. Damage meters or death. I have 100K damage. what do you got?

Umm…10k, I back cappped an empty SHB to reset horde timer when they come back. and another rogue showed up so we agro pulled mobs to flip that. No more horde SHGY…and your turtle break out window happened

edit: where the defence rants are coming from. its needed…as this is what rogues and druids live for. empty flags to take lol

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