The whole idea of the opposing faction screwing you over is the whole basis of world PvP.Corpse camping, Fearing you into mobs and yes dispelling your precious World Buff's it all comes with the territory.Playing on a PvP server you MUST accept this kind of thing will happen more often than not.One positive is that he acknowledged his action were wrong accepted the outcome.Which is more than can be said about the GM, they really should have known better.
My opinion that GM should be suspended or removed and put else where in the company. Debuffing enemy players on a pvp server is standard and expected play. Streamers not wanting to get sniped stop streaming. It really is that simple.
That GM should be fired, no remorse. :-)
Handled so incredibly poorly. If this is how the authority figures in this game are using their powers then this is not a game I want to invest any time into.
He shouldn't have been suspended. Sometimes these streamers think they are above everyone else. If that was bannable then say good bye to PvP cause everyone would be complaining during matches or have war mode on. The Blizzard employee should be suspended for a week for doing that.
That streamer is a joke.One of his latest video's was about him being unrightfully banned and having a GM in his stream sorting stuff out. He then said that if you wanted help with your ban appeal or tickets just message him and he'll get in contact with the GM.
No perspective matters here.At any point at any time can someone setup a campfire, stream snipe you and dispel ur ass if thats what they want to.This dispelling thing is funny AF.
They should just give that Gm a yellow card. I agree that player was a dirty scoundrel, but being targeted is the risk for a streaming, you have to come up with strategy, oh also I think Gms should keep in check their personnal feelings/relationships, unless you're taking a risk of being unfair.
Most PVP I've experienced is griefing there's little if any actual PVP unless PVPing is finding a situation where you won't lose and exploiting it.
I remember a few years ago I had a similar situation, but in a different way:I was playing Warlock for the first time, and a feral druid killed me in the Plaguelands. So I waited about 10 minutes, ressed, then continued my quest. I died again. Third time I died, I decided to move to opposite side of zone. He followed me, he killed me again. When I respawned, he was waiting in stealth to instantly kill and camp me. So I decided to move to another zone: I moved from Western Plaguelands to the zone with Sunken Temple, forgot the name. So it was an entirely different zone. Guess what? A few minutes later, I was instantly killed by the same feral druid. I don't know how he knew I was in Sunken Temple zone within minutes of me being there, I don't know why he would go there, when the feral druid was 5 levels lower than the quests and mobs that you could get in the zone, so he wouldn't been able to even acquire the quests in the zone, but for some reason, he was in that zone.I then logged out, and a few days later, the feral druid was a few levels higher. I went to an entirely different zone again, and after 5 minutes, low and behold: the feral druid killed me 30 minutes after I logged online after a 3 day break. I rage quit and I haven't played the Warlock since. Moral of the story; that level of griefing should be bannable. That level should not be allowed. I do not stream. I don't publish videos. There is no motivation whatsoever for the feral druid. I found it really odd that he immediately killed me minutes after I moved zones. This was about 8 years ago during Cataclysm, but still, it should not be allowed. PvP should be allowed, but there should be a limit on the extent it goes on.
If a customer asked me to do something on their service outside a ticket, I would lose my job. Even if they have every right to request the changes. Even if we say for the sake of argument the person deserved to be banned that itself is a fireable breach of process. Now if it turns out I did something and broke the customer's service and the person was not authorised to make the request, I would lose my job and probably face criminal charges.This guy unleashing his pet GM to falsely get someone banned because he wants the benefits of streaming but can't handle the downsides, even assuming they were being steam-sniped which they apparently weren't, is pathetic. They named and shamed someone and used a corrupt friend at Blizzard to get someone falsely banned. Based on them giving gifts, you can argue they were also bribing a Blizzard employee. They should be permanently banned.This GM completely deserves to lose their jobs for gross misconduct, violating processes, and numerous ethics, bribery, and anti-corruption policies within Blizzard. People have lost their jobs for only a fraction of what this idiot did.
But the ban used Blizzard’s authority, and Blizz hasn’t punished or reprimanded the GM (that we know of, and they’d probably post some kind of statement if they had).This is emblematic of, at the very least, a complete lack of any decent guidelines or direction from Blizzard toward the GMs, and a general strategy of “you guys feel free to ban anyone for anything, if it gets us bad PR we’ll just review and overturn the banning”. If Blizzard had given the guy guidelines, he wouldn’t have been so eager to ban in the first place. Blizz does have a reputation for ridiculous bans.I shudder to think of the thousands who have been unjustly banned by power-mad GMs, and even specifically by this streamer and his pocket ban machine.
Streamer: “I’m gonna play on a pvp server to get attention and money from people to like world pvp!”Also streamer: “WAAA another pwaer huwt me in world pvp, GM ban the big meany!”That streamer’s such a loser lol. Hope he loses a bunch of viewers.As for the GM - he’s going to continue to ban people because he feels like it, and Blizzard won’t do anything. We all know Blizz’s attitude toward banning. (Are all of Blizz’s bans motivated by helping streamers and/or China? Or do they just let GMs make decisions with impunity and only overturn the bans that get them bad PR?)The article talking about how it’s “not a clear-cut issue” lol. Is this author going to write another piece called “Why defending Hong Kong in interviews is morally wrong and bannable”? Maybe the author is Taliesin cuz they sound like a massive Blizz shill to me (love u Tally)
Just dispelling someone without any intent to attack them might not be griefing, but it's beyond &*!@ty, so it's no surprise a lot of people would consider it griefing.The GM banning someone who is considered to be griefing is right in my opinion and he shouldn't be fired just because Blizzad doesn't actually uphold any griefing rules and there is no clear line on what griefing is since no one ever gets banned for that pretty much.Arleus acting as if it matters that he got dispelled is sad and what's worse, complaining about it and asking someone to get banned is sadder. I don't think streamers should complain. You are making money playing games, so getting some setbacks or bonuses(getting gold gifted for example) should be accepted without any whining.Basically life should just carry on. I don't think anyone did anything major worth taking any action against, especially the GM losing his job over this stupid thing.Still the guy saying that he wasn't stream snipping and was essentially just walking around dispelling people is just as sad as what Arleus did.
If you roll on a pvp realm you agree that any open world pvp mechanics can unfairly screw you over and annoy/inconvenience you at any point. Blizzard has specifically created pve realms for people like him who dont want to deal with that, so he has only himself to blame.