It can be dispelled with some PvP flag trickery, but it’s a heck of a lot harder.
7 day ban. Make their raid night nonexistent.
they banned this guy faster than they have been banning bots.
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As someone who’s not a jerk, this being bannable affects me in no way so 
Let’s ban someone for doing PvPin things in PvP against another PvP player while flagged in PvP. The mod that quickly banned the player to show favoritism towards his favorite streamer should be banned himself. We should be talking more about the mod who is abusing his power like this against players that aren’t even breaking any rules.
Oh I do. Especially one that goes around with special treatment using a threat like this, “Hey if you do something that I don’t like, my friend is a GM and will ban you!”.
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Exactly. Banning this person so quickly without even understanding the rules, shows he is incompetent of his position and has probably abused his power before prior to this public incident.
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My impression is their entire customer service/GM division is woefully overrun and understaffed in relation to the extra demand created by people returning to WoW for ventures like Classic WoW.
They saw thousands of players purportedly renew subs when Classic WoW came out.
I think they seriously underestimated the popularity, and it reflects in the customer service and the lack of server population management / planning.
Pretty sure there’s a reason they hired the woman who’s been working on EverQuest previously to come work for Blizzard in 2020 around the same time they had job openings for new programmers/designers.
It was obviously too late for Classic and Shadowlands…but made sense if they were ramping up a dedicated team for TBC as opposed to having somebody’s dog try to juggle Classic WoW while the rest of the WoW team struggles to finish and ship Shadowlands.
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Never underestimate Blizzard’s incompetence.
Are they planning to tell us how this matter was resolved? Or is this issue considered closed now?
I am glad someone else believes mostly what I saw too. When they told us that “you think you want this, but you don’t”…i think Blizzard whole-heartily believed that in the moment and through development.
They expected the Classic tourists to show up because it was basically free. They were prepared for that. But they were in no-way prepared for the amount of people who actually wanted this. It seems like everything could be traced back to the woeful underestimation of Classic’s popularity…from not enough servers to not enough customer-service to meet demand.
Unfortunately, the damage from this misjudgment is all ready done. We can only hope they learn from their mistakes with future servers or “classic” expansion.
I do believe it is against California law to publicly discuss work discipline in a public manner.
They gradually shed a bunch of people that weren’t necessarily sick of WoW…but didn’t like the direction the current design team had gone in.
WoD was a huge dud for them and a bunch of people who hadn’t quit in Mists (which lost subscribers) quit in WoD…because WoD was just a dumpster fire barring some of the raid content.
Then they had Legion…which from what I’m told was essentially a ‘hail mary’ throw that scored a touch down for Team Blizzard after the game had gone into ‘OVERTIME SUDDEN DEATH’ mode. Ie. It was a legitimately good expansion.
BFA comes out and they just dumpster the game again with multiple poor design decisions players warned them about in development…but they went ahead with anyways.
Now they have Shadowlands…and Ion Hazzi has convinced himself that his philosophical approach to game design will pan out with Covenants and the power choices they represent. A lot of people are watching from the sidelines…but more in a “LOOK AT THAT DUMPSTER FIRE GOOO” kind of watch as opposed to “I might want to get on that train” type of watch.
They’ve just bitten off more than they’re going to be able to manage in Shadowlands.
TBC is going to be popular and it’s going to be big.
Part of me actually feels bad for this GM even though his decision/behavior was improper here. I know they’ll never discuss whatever action they took internally, but it’s my hope they didn’t fire him.
Looking at customer service at Blizzard right now is like watching 5 people with buckets run around throwing water from them on a burning factory.
They need a fire truck and a full team of people so the people that are there aren’t overwhelmed.
The ‘dispelling people’s buffs’ thing has been complained about on the forums for months. It’s clearly an issue for people (which doesn’t mean it should be changed necessarily- just that the developers should acknowledge it as such and talk with their community).
You know what would have been helpful to everybody (including this GM and the players involved here?)
If the developers had come out and said on their official forums:
“Hey guys, working as intended. Sorry not sorry.”
or
“We’re making a change, and it’s gonna be (X)”
Instead, what happens a lot of the time with Classic WoW is we get total silence and a lack of engagement from the developers.
Kaivax shows up occasionally when there is a pre-planned release to announce, or when something like this goes into Chernobyl melt-down and they need somebody to pop into the forums and go:
“Yeah guys, we know the countryside is glowing…we’re doing stuff…thanks for telling us about it we seriously had NO CLUE and were definitely not ignoring it hoping people would just shut up eventually so we wouldn’t have to do stuff”.
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Why does this streamer play on a PvP server if he doesn’t want to deal with PvP and if someone dares PvP him that person should get banned?
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He wants to say he plays on a pvp server for street cred but doesn’t have the groombas to play on a pvp server.
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Companies don’t sack employees over even major offenses if the employees actions can be argued to be in the company’s interests. The GM won’t even be reprimanded nor should he
What a hilariously stupid position. Wow, sometimes these forums can still impress!
Damaging the integrity of the company, or even appearing to damage the integrity of the company is the easiest way to be fired. Stuff like that is written into every single employment contract ever.
Having a GM at the beck-and-call of a single player does so much damage to the credibility of the support team would be grounds for instant termination…otherwise it would cost Blizzard untold dollars in loss subscriptions because of people quitting the game over the “idea” of corrupt GMs. They don’t even HAVE to be corrupt, just the idea that corrupt GMs could even exist is enough to do irreparable damage.
So yeah…your take is pretty bad on this one.
I’d say that’s a huge overreaction. A write up/warning would be enough.
This isn’t streamer privelege.
How are streamers uniquely able to befriend and leverage GMs? GMs aren’t a special class of people that ONLY streamers are famous enough to befriend.
There is no way that this individual being a streamer priveleged him.
- He pressured a friend to take action against the player, and compensated him a $5 value for the favor.
- If he wasn’t streaming, he wouldn’t have been sniped, and this never would have happened.
- If he wasn’t streaming, there wouldn’t be video evidence of his conduct, and we would never have known he leveraged friendship with a GM to get a player he didn’t like banned.