Guild Wars 2

Robert Hrouda.1327:

did you report him? Because we do ban for that type of behavior.

We’re always working on ways to keep people from trolling and exploiting others. We recently made it so that the party leader can’t leave the group and kick everyone out without his instance being destroyed, so this is just the latest iteration in people trying to abuse other people. I will alert our programmers to this if they are already not aware.

While I agree that you are taking a step in the right direction with this I think that it’s not a real long term solution. The party leader isn’t always going to leave just because he/she wants to grief the other party members. His/her Internet connection might have died or maybe the power went out. Maybe there’s some kind of emergency that he/she has to attend to. Players who are not the party leader can leave at any time and they can be easily replaced. No one will call them out for griefing/trolling.

A real long term solution would be to make it so that players are not kicked from the instance when anyone, including the “party leader”, leaves. Now I know this might not be technically feasible simply with the way instancing was designed but there has to be some workaround to make it happen. Yes, this would also solve the problem with the leader going AFK. If anyone else went AFK for an extended period they can be easily kicked and you wouldn’t label them as griefers for going AFK in the first place.

Report and ban such people isnt solution for this trouble. Anet need to fix grouping. Please!