Player harassment = "game mechanics"
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:08 pmSo today while doing the quest Are There We There, Yeti? Pt. 2, I ran into 2 players of the guild <Kaamos>, Hosq and Jaakko.
If you've done this quest before, you know the drops from the Yeti Matriarchs and Patriarchs are quite rare. However this quest was made even more frustrating by Hosq, a Priest who would routinely mind control yetis I was fighting and reset them so his partner Jaakko could sit on their spawn point to tag them. If I beat Jaakko to the tag, Hosq would just mind control the yeti and reset it again.
There's a whole cave full of these yetis, so I consider these actions nothing more than plain harassment. To me it's the same thing as abusing Polymorph to heal mobs and kill other players, which people have been warned about abusing. And it's worse when it's conducted by team mates, since PvP isn't an option to counter this sort of childish behavior.
So I submitted a ticket to a GM. I received a response about 5 hours later, and honestly I was a bit surprised.
So at first he says that as long as it's using "game mechanics" then it's okay. Which is a slippery slope, since a lot of totally not-okay things can be boiled down to being just "game mechanics."
Then he caves a bit and says that if I could prove this went on for a significant period of the time, then maybe he'd do something about it. However, how long player harassment has to continue for until a GM takes action appears to be up to discretion.
So, as someone who has never really played WoW before (old EQ veteran), I've been having a lot of fun here. Some drop rates and such have given some players an unfair advantage, but it's nothing outrageous and many retail MMOs have run into similar problems. But this experience with the GM staff has by far been my most disappointing experience on Nostalrius so far. When there are over 6000 simultaneous players on a server, you really can't just throw your hands up in the air and say there are no rules. The GM couldn't even take two minutes to send a message to the offenders warning them of the consequences of repeat offenses. That could at the very least cause these players to think twice about using such tactics against other players in the future.
Anyways, I'm over this particular instance, but I would like to see the staff take a more active approach in ensuring that the server remains fun for everyone playing here.
Your thoughts?
If you've done this quest before, you know the drops from the Yeti Matriarchs and Patriarchs are quite rare. However this quest was made even more frustrating by Hosq, a Priest who would routinely mind control yetis I was fighting and reset them so his partner Jaakko could sit on their spawn point to tag them. If I beat Jaakko to the tag, Hosq would just mind control the yeti and reset it again.
There's a whole cave full of these yetis, so I consider these actions nothing more than plain harassment. To me it's the same thing as abusing Polymorph to heal mobs and kill other players, which people have been warned about abusing. And it's worse when it's conducted by team mates, since PvP isn't an option to counter this sort of childish behavior.
So I submitted a ticket to a GM. I received a response about 5 hours later, and honestly I was a bit surprised.
So at first he says that as long as it's using "game mechanics" then it's okay. Which is a slippery slope, since a lot of totally not-okay things can be boiled down to being just "game mechanics."
Then he caves a bit and says that if I could prove this went on for a significant period of the time, then maybe he'd do something about it. However, how long player harassment has to continue for until a GM takes action appears to be up to discretion.
So, as someone who has never really played WoW before (old EQ veteran), I've been having a lot of fun here. Some drop rates and such have given some players an unfair advantage, but it's nothing outrageous and many retail MMOs have run into similar problems. But this experience with the GM staff has by far been my most disappointing experience on Nostalrius so far. When there are over 6000 simultaneous players on a server, you really can't just throw your hands up in the air and say there are no rules. The GM couldn't even take two minutes to send a message to the offenders warning them of the consequences of repeat offenses. That could at the very least cause these players to think twice about using such tactics against other players in the future.
Anyways, I'm over this particular instance, but I would like to see the staff take a more active approach in ensuring that the server remains fun for everyone playing here.
Your thoughts?
