Individual GMs do not get to decide the rules. All they do is enforce policies. A GM ignoring policy to help a friend is unacceptable.
There is no policy against dispelling. Dispelling is not griefing, it is PvP on a PvP server. Banning him at the personal request of a customer is unacceptable.
Quote from blizzardâs tos
âBehavior that intentionally detracts from othersâ enjoyment (such as griefing, throwing, feeding, etc.) is unacceptable. We expect our players to treat each other with respect and promote an enjoyable environment. Acceptable behavior is determined by player reports and Blizzardâs decision, and violating these guidelines will result in account and gameplay restrictionsâ
Dispelling is not griefing. It is PvP on a PvP server.
So a lvl 20 waiting to res and dispell you is pvp to you huh
Yes. Absolutely.
Getting jumped out farming herbs detracts from my enjoyment
Still not griefing
Is it a player engaging a player?
it is thoughâŚonce enough people report youâŚfor literally anythingâŚblizz will action your account. Thatâs how right click report features work, blizz allows the players to dictate what they will and will not tolerate.
Maybe you should reroll on a pve server ?
I have not got dispeled yet. i get summoned to ubrs usually. But I still donât like those little trolls
Bans or suspensions are never automated though. A human being always reviews them first. The only things that are automated are squelches and name changesâŚneither lead to game-play bans.
If dispelling really were considered griefing, then a lot more people would be getting banned. The problem in this case is that dispelling is fine and this streamer got a personal-favor from a GM who was a fan.
your going to take a quote from blizz and question me about it?
If GMs are allowed to be this corrupt, we might as well just go back to pservers.
Yes. Itâs a very vague definition that applies to basically all WPvP so excuse me if I question it
Aside from the fact that simple dispelling is not griefing, you can not even prove that it was intentional. The streamer said it was because apparently a low key streamer like him obviously has to be sniped and he obiously was targeted by a macro⌠right. No way he could have been just the unlucky one who got targeted by the priest. Just because you are not up on your end of the screen does not mean the priest could not have seen the avatar.
So you already lack the proof for an intentional act against this person. It could have been a coincidence that he got targeted.
Lets check out wether he griefed.
According to wikipedia (And that is as good as a scientific explanation goes i guess): Griefing is the act of chronically causing consternation to other members of an online community, or more specifically, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay.
What exactly was chronical about dispelling a person one time? Unless this priest dispelled the player everytime, every single day for weeks, it does not even remotely come close to griefing.
The GM got a free sub as well. Thats just pure corruption and nothing else
Ebonroc not dropping DFT is reducing my fun. Better ban Ebonroc.
I was going into DMN the other day when a player killed me at the door.
Better ban him too as it reduced my fun. Seriously hate that walk back
That tank wouldnât carry me through Stockades! My fun has been objectively loweredâŚban him.
This is comical that anyone would argue for this ban to be legit in any way. There is a clear and obvious personal bias on behalf of this GM here. It is clear as day to see it. The streamer calls out for a ban, is responded to in chat (not in game, no ticket) and a ban is issued withing mere minutes. Thousands of players dispel world buffs all day every day on my server. Nothing has ever happened to them and Iâm sure they get reported all the time. Looking at the comments on the Reddit post, this guy also dispels all day every day. Why wasnât he banned before this? Because it isnât against the rules and isnât considered griefing, except by one GM in the case of his streamer friend. Other big name streamers have been mind controlled for hours, relentlessly camped in pvp, and dispelled every raid and nothing was done to those people in game. Not so much as a warning. Now this one GM gets to change this and create his own precedent because he has a personal bias and wants to do his friend a favor in RETALIATION for allowed in game actions? Get real. I donât like getting dispelled either but I would never expect anyone doing it to get banned for 1 hour let alone SIX MONTHS. Open and shut case of abusing his powers. This GM should be reprimanded.
Itâs crazy to me these people who dislike the activity on a pvp server support this blatant bs. They signed up for the classic experience and willingly chose to be a pvp server. Lol where was the bans during phase 2 when alliance got destroyed in open world then camped in the actual alliance cities? dAT wAs gRiEfINg accord to some of these blizzard boot lickers
I really hope Blizzard addresses this corrupt GM situation itâs making even us retailers look bad.