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Maybe it is just me, but I think that Arlaeus should be given a ban by Twitch - specifically for "cheating" or some other abuse of power clause since he has a GM friend and is calling on them for support a normal player would not have. It is like a FPS player having a program that provides some form of support that is above and beyond a normal player. Seems the two are analogous for their respective genres.
Get rid of the GM or temporarily remove them from their position, A GM should never rely on the word of his friend, he should do what his job asks of him and investigate first.
need more crybabies complaining about wpvp on pvp servers
What I think it really comes down to is that dispelling isn't world PvP. There is no counterplay to it, there is no benefit to the person doing the dispelling in the game. Even if you kill the priest who is dispelling people as long as they got off one dispel, which they will always do as it is instant speed, they won. People suicide camping on level 40 priests in Kargath dispelling level 60s aren't fighting level 60s, they are greifing them.
There are two things here:1) The GM absolutely acted inappropriately, no ifs ands or buts.2) SHOULD it be considered griefing? People have hid under "PVP on a PVP server" for years with no consequences doing things that in any other game would be considered griefing and get punished and Blizzard has let it go on. Maybe it is time to take a stand against things like this which obviously aren't actual PVP but designed to piss people off and goad them into PVP.
LOL this made my day, qq more please
If you want to be a streamer go to PvE servers and take Lordviho with you.
Good, not only is the GM fired but now they'll be denied unemployment because they're fired for cause by likely breaking some internal regulations around using GM powers in unauthorized ways. Way to #$%^ yourself out of a job and money because you subscribed to some idiot you pay to shout your name on camera.
I think the GM was clearly in the wrong. They should have told him to create a ticket, that they could then investigate into. Just slapping a ban on someone because a streamer said so is a clear abuse of power.
wow, someone who must have never been in vanilla pvp server is actually crying? It's a freaking buff. Want it, do the raid again.That's always what my experience with Blizzard..."..Sorry for the inconvenience, but you can get the buff again..."If the buff was NOT meant to be dispelled, then that is a bug and should be reported.IF the player cannot handle being interacted with the other faction, then they shouldn't be on a PVP server at all.This situation shouldn't even raise to amount of questioning is it ban-able by dispelling another faction's buff.OTHERWISE, since Vanilla you would have the outcries from many of who "messed" up a raid intentionally so the raid would not get the items,is that ban-able, too? And Blizzard should then give the raids all the loots that they would of, could of gotten?
Also, If I go onto a classic pvp server, and someone intentionally camp & gank me. I could cry to blizzard to have that person ban, too, right?Cause this is exactly how it will amount to. /sighs. Especially all those Gold Shire starting zone ganking in PVP...make sure players, you must submit complaints and cry to blizzard so those ganking will be ban.
So like, I always stayed away from pvp servers and war mode because I don't want to get my playtime interupted by other players. Can I just stream myself playing for immunity now? :O Or perhaps just update people in world chat of my location so if anyone engages me in pvp they're griefing? Some of those pvp abilities look fun and the extra rewards aren't bad either. If I can get people banned for attacking me because it's harassment I might as well, you know?
I agree with everyone saying "that's what you get for playing on a pvp server." As for whether it's griefing or not, i don't believe it's griefing per se. It's more jjust general trolling rather than griefing in a more extreme case. Typically griefing is more "bothering players in a way that disrupts general gameplay" such as a fairly notorious bit of world pvp im familiar with in mass slaughters in Hellfire Peninsula. Being on the Horde side, i've been victim to max level Alliance players going out of their way to kill at level players (58-62 range) and the npcs of various Horde settlements to keep them from doing anything. That's more in line with "griefing", even if it does still fall under the purview of world pvp. If all the supposedly griefing playing is doing is dispelling buffs as per the general idea of world pvp and nothing more, then is it really griefing? Are the now buffless players suddenly unable to do anything or are they still able to raid or run dungeons, albeit at a less optimal setting given the loss of certain more powerful buffs like dragonslayer?My opinion, what needed to happen was this:
Streamer: I lost my buffs. *proceeds to whine to a GM he knows is watching*GM: Uh oh! My favorite streamer just got dispelled. This player is griefing him. *bans*Yeah... tell me this isn't a whiner and favoritism.