I am posting this on behalf of all of the people who were recently falsely banned for RMT in the RBG community.
Above you will find a link to a video made by prolific RBG leader Kasper Larsensen.
In it he describes how the in-game report function is being abused by all facets of the player base (regardless of MMR and CR), to get other players banned for supposed counts of “RMT.”
“For people who don’t believe the system is being abused in this way, here is video evidence of people using it against Perturb, another gold booster:
As you can see, the players involved in this reporting are doing it REPEATEDLY. Mentioning that they will get (Perturb) banned AGAIN and make it “impossible” for him to play the game.”
People are being selectively targeted based on their affiliations and popularity in the game world, spam reported for “RMT”, and then banned – even if they have NOTHING to do with RMT.
He stresses that this kind of mass reporting could happen to anyone.
People who are most at risk are individuals participating in gold boosting services (which is allowed based on the TOS.)
Although these are anecdotal accounts, here are some quotes from his postings on Reddit which describe the video better and help provide context:
“I covered two very distinct points in my video, but I’ll elaborate on them again here:
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GM’s don’t have the time nor do they really care about looking into these types of reports fully. This is why the system has been partially automated. The reports SHOULD be looked into, but you said yourself that they are disregarded. This is incredibly dangerous because it leaves room for the GM in charge of said investigation to make assumptions based on patterns he/she sees or doesn’t see.
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People will report other people who they deem as boosters regardless of if they are even boosting or not. I have played a 1300 MMR yolo where people in it said, word for word, “Report the 1500 boomkin on the enemy team, he is boosting them!” Simply because he was the highest CR player in the game by a margin of 200! This thread should be proof enough that yes, people WILL go out of there way to report people like me. The hatred for boosting teams (especially this season, with the influx of new players in RBG) is REAL.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that yes, I was boosting. However, I did it for gold and therefore I was abiding by the ToS. What got me caught up in this mess were the x 500 reports that were sent in by players who simply didn’t know any better about what is allowable in-game and not, and people with malicious intent. Full stop.”
In regards to Mes and streamers like him:
Mes and people like him don’t need to encourage their viewers to do the reporting.
In fact, Mes is not the issue here at all. Neither are other streamers like him.
All they need to say, offhandedly mind you, is, “Oh these guys are boosting.”
And that opens the flood gates most of the time for their chats to take action - simply by virtue of them being so watched and well known.
Whether it is intended or not (most of the time it is not, fyi.) But even one hundred people acting righteously in a 3,000 viewer stream (let’s be more conservative and say just 30) is enough to ruin someone’s day in the grand scheme of things.”
“Let me give you an example of what happens in games like these where gold boosters are involved. More often than not, a player on the team where are fighting will instruct his team either in voice or in-game that we are “boosters”, and that we should be reported.
Think about that for a second. 9 players in a match have just been instructed to report myself, and the other highest CR players in a match simply because we are gold boosters. All it takes is a simply right click on my portrait frame, and a few clicks to report me for cheating, then “Boosting.”
That’s 10 reports I have just accumulated before the gates in a match have even opened!
I queue, on average, 100 matches per character per week. I have 3 max level characters on my account. If the math works out (even conservatively speaking), you can safely assume that I am being reported over 300 times just from in-game reports alone!”
…a very large % of the community absolutely hates PvP carries since it interferes with their own climbing up the ladder, makes playing alts a pain, etc.
