A ban worthy experience? I get I could have handled some interactions better but at no time did I use “Hate speech and discriminatory language is inappropriate, as is any obscene or disruptive language. Threatening or harassing another player is always unacceptable, regardless of language used”
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From the context of your post, I am assuming that you received some form of an account action do to social interactions during PVP. The best advice I could offer you is to improve your interactions with your fellow players.
This is easily done by not saying anything rude or offensive to people. It takes conscience effort to type something out and hit enter.
Hopefully you have taken this action against your account as the learning tool that it is intended to be and reflect on what you could of done differently.
If by chance you believe this action against your account is in error you could appeal the decision made and the appeals team will look at the evidence that they have and determine if it was indeed a violation of the CoC or not.
I wish you the best of luck
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Something does not need to fall into the category of hate speech or profanity to be inappropriate for the game. Being “toxic” is just not something Blizzard wants. So if you are being rude, insulting, and abusive towards your fellow players they are likely to report you. If a GM sees that sort of thing in the report logs, they are likely to action for it.
The penalty system currently goes as follows (subject to change without notice):
- 1st penalty 1 week Silence
- 2nd penalty 1 week Suspension
- 3rd penalty 2 week Suspension
- 4th and up - they get longer and can result in a license closure.
- This whole thing may be skipped and a GM may go straight to the higher penalties or closure if an offense is serious enough.
Even if your current offense is not that bad, if you are on your second or third offense it will be a Suspension. Those penalties don’t drop off the account or age out. That is why you have a Suspension now for whatever social infraction the GM rule on.
They don’t look at the “seriousness” of it when determining the penalty, except the really bad cases. It just goes by the penalty tree.
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Absolutely. What does it accomplish besides putting other people down and diminishing the player experience for those players who may not meet your expectations? Think back to that old adage - “if you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all.”
At no time are you paying for anyone else to be able to dictate their skill. Yes, you may be teamed with folks who may be new or learning, or gearing up. You were that person once too. If someone asks you for your advice in how to be better? Then perhaps you can make your suggestions, but unless that happens - you don’t get to comment on how someone is being bad or whatnot. I don’t care how it may have been acceptable behavior before. Blizzard is finally working to try and remove that toxicity as they should have always been doing.
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As an avid PvPer, yes. Telling someone they’re bad isn’t helpful to anyone, let alone your team. I’m sure the player in question is very aware the battle is not going well.
All that is successfully accomplishing, if anything, is making less people try PvP than they already are.
I make it a point to focus on myself and what I can do better, and see how it goes. If someone asks for advice I will share what I think is helpful, but I won’t insult someone because they are underperforming, or shove advice down someone’s throat.
If you must complain, do it to yourself. No one else can hear it, and you aren’t just slagging someone. There’s no reason to drag other people down.
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I acknowledge what you said but you didn’t answer my question
If the actual question is if someone should be banned because they repeatedly violated policy that has been agreed to. Then yes, it is appropriate. I also find it appropriate to ban accounts that have heinously violated policy on a first offense.
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This makes sense and I accept this. Personally I think it was heavy handed ban, not my game to make the rules however. I just kinda wanted to pick everyone’s brain
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It’s hard to say without knowing what you said and how you said it. If you’re giving someone advice in a positive way on how they can improve, there should be nothing wrong with that. I would suspect, based on how you asked this question, that your “advice” was likely much more on the toxic side, which could definitely get you a short vacation.
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Maybe in a polite way you offer to help them improve! But anything else you should keep it to yourself. Not everyone out there is good at pvp.
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