Guild Wars 2

I was thinking that a lot more people would report gold sellers and bugs if there was an incentive to do so.
It wouldn’t have to be anything massive but if there was a reason the game could be improved dramatically.
Ensuring all reports were valid would be tough but if that were overcome I’m sure this would benefit the community.

Yeah, except for the whole “Gee i want that award so I’m going to report everything in site. They won’t have time to check it out anyway”.

As he said. The problem with adding a tangible incentive to reporting is that there will be some players that will report far too often in hopes of getting the rewards. There will be an increase in false reports, making more work for Anet. There would be a desire to punish players abusing the system, but that too may create problems and is undesirable.

I can imagine a one-time achievement for your first report to emphasize its importance, but that might be more suited to the Hint interface.

As I said in another thread, bots should not become a part of the game by creating achievements around them. They shouldn’t even be in the game in the first place.

Shouldn’t knowing that you are helping the game improve be reward enough?