Guild Wars 2

hello, i’ll start to the point, i was running eotm(overflow) as frostreach, my zerg was lead by someone nick named kimberly blabla, after she capped tytone she was asking for another tag to replace, because of no one tagged up i decided to tag up and lead my zerg to statuary then to eastern altar gate( i decided that because i see orange sword at BL keep, or let me say OG was there) and when my zerg was ramming the gate the OG zerg not finished their job at BL keep but they just run toward my zerg and wiped my zerg, and after that when i was about to continue my run from FR zone i got whispered by someone(maybe gw2 staff) he has name ‘Banbot’ he said that i was reported for doing a setuped match there…

my fact :
- im not in any voice chat
- my guild tag the time i represent was only me as a member( this is my private tag )
- im grouping with random FR dudes
- im not whispering anyone while im tagging up that time

thank you for that random dude who reported me,
i hope if that ‘Banbot’ guy is real staff and i’m not guilty the one that reported me should punished

sorry for the bad english

thank you
Walking Bag

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First, posting names on the forums is against the rules. Either black out the names/ remove names from your post, or send this information in an email to support.

Second, what makes you think the person wasn’t trolling you? (Hint: devs don’t use purple chat). If this guy was trying to impersonate an ANet dev, support needs to know.

Third: see ‘win trading’ that occurred all of Season 2 (tournament.)

goldenwing.8473:

First, posting names on the forums is against the rules. Either black out the names, remove names from your post, or send this information in an email to support.

Second, what makes you think the person wasn’t trolling you? (Hint: devs don’t use purple chat).

Third: see ‘win trading’ that occurred all of Season 2 (tournament.)

1. go see question 2
2. IF this dude trolling me let the other player know, if he troll
3. i know what is coordinated(trading win) which i didnt do, this make me scarred to tag up again in eotm, if i can i prefer my tag refunded, ill never tag again

thank you for repplying

That’s not ANet staff. Add the name to your “Friends” or “Blocked” list and you’ll see who it is. S/he has a history of complaining about “Match Fixing” in EotM here on the forums. Guess this person doesn’t know impersonating Staff is bannable.

Southern.8973:

That’s not ANet staff. Add the name to your “Friends” or “Blocked” list and you’ll see who it is. S/he has a history of complaining about “Match Fixing” in EotM here on the forums. Guess this person doesn’t know impersonating Staff is bannable.

Ding!

Send screenshot and any supporting info to support.

Southern.8973:

That’s not ANet staff. Add the name to your “Friends” or “Blocked” list and you’ll see who it is. S/he has a history of complaining about “Match Fixing” in EotM here on the forums. Guess this person doesn’t know impersonating Staff is bannable.

is that so, i hope the real staff do something to him (acc block or IP block)

thank you

This is why I try not to say a word or get noticed when I’m around any PvP community.

adika.1809:

hello, i’ll start to the point, i was running eotm(overflow) as frostreach, my zerg was lead by someone nick named kimberly blabla, after she capped tytone she was asking for another tag to replace, because of no one tagged up i decided to tag up and lead my zerg to statuary then to eastern altar gate( i decided that because i see orange sword at BL keep, or let me say OG was there) and when my zerg was ramming the gate the OG zerg not finished their job at BL keep but they just run toward my zerg and wiped my zerg, and after that when i was about to continue my run from FR zone i got whispered by someone(maybe gw2 staff) he has name ‘Banbot’ he said that i was reported for doing a setuped match there…

my fact :
- im not in any voice chat
- my guild tag the time i represent was only me as a member( this is my private tag )
- im grouping with random FR dudes
- im not whispering anyone while im tagging up that time

thank you for that random dude who reported me,
i hope if that ‘Banbot’ guy is real staff and i’m not guilty the one that reported me should punished

sorry for the bad english

thank you
Walking Bag

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You’ve admitted leading zergs to be farmed by enemy zergs in the past… and you have the gall to post this?

NightWalker.1405:

I don’t see anywhere on there where they say they are anet. Looks like a roleplayer.

Use of the word “we” implies ANet; hence implied impersonation.

goldenwing.8473:

NightWalker.1405:

I don’t see anywhere on there where they say they are anet. Looks like a roleplayer.

Use of the word “we” implies ANet; hence implied impersonation.

Actually, I was talking about my guild, hence the “we” – I guess he must be paranoid because he’s actually guilty of match fixing and bag farming.

1. called “ban” bot.
2. has said “we’ve received reports.”
3.“we will be forced to investigate”
4. “we will be forced to take action against your account”

Combined, all of these are impersonating statements. Only ANet is capable of taking action against an account.

However, that’s not up to us to decide. Support needs to know.

Use of the word “we” implies that Banbot is representing ArenaNet. Sounds to me like someone is committing fraud.

goldenwing.8473:

1. called “ban” bot.
2. has said “we’ve received reports.”
3.“we will be forced to investigate”
4. “we will be forced to take action against your account”

Combined, all of these are impersonating statements. Only ANet is capable of taking action against an account.

However, that’s not up to us to decide. Support needs to know.

Take action = report the OP to ANet for match manipulation.

“Impersonating statements” really? Impersonating someone = pretending to be them, e.g making a character called “Arena Net Staff” or saying “Hello, I am Jeff from Arena Net.” If someone chooses to infer something from something someone else says, that’s their problem. I’m guessing the OP inferred “we” to mean “Arena Net” because he’s broken the rules and is afraid of being caught. If he was innocent, he wouldn’t have made this thread, he’d have just replied “lol” or something.

NightWalker.1405:

I don’t see anywhere on there where they say they are anet. Looks like a roleplayer.

The player is insinuating they have the authority to take action against another player’s account which means they are trying to impersonate ArenaNet staff. It doesn’t matter if they are “roleplaying”. You can’t go around telling people that you, personally, have the power to ban a player’s account.

To the OP:
I highly doubt Anet staff would send you a whisper for a rules violation. They have a habit of looking at the situation first and if they find you are violating the rules they will straight up take action against your account. Their policy in the past (and may still be today) is that a temporary suspension, or permanent ban, from the game is the warning. You would probably receive an email explaining what you did wrong if that were the case.

If Anet staff were ever visible in the game they would most likely have a special tag on their name such as “GM_Username” or something similar and/or their name and/or message in the chat may have a special color for the text.

I highly doubt an Anet GM would have a character named ‘Banbot’ or anything close to it.

Dude, someone has a character name they think is cute and they are messing with you to try and be funny. If it happens again report them for harassment and if possible explain that you think they are impersonating ArenaNet staff. If anything they will get suspended for harassment.

99.99% chance of troll
0.01% chance he is disgruntled and reported you to Anet, in which case nothing will happen to you.
0.0000000000000000000% chance he actually represents Anet
I agree that you should report him for impersonating Anet. worst thing that will happen from that is nothing.
You should also black out his name from the picture you post here, as well as in your post (in your report to Anet, you can send the non-blacked-out version). Even as a public service announcement, you’re not allowed to name people, because it would be too easy to falsely do this and ruin someone’s reputation, and start wars, etc. If you were allowed to name him, he would be allowed to name you – do you really want him able to tell people you’re purposefully feeding enemy zergs and rigging matches? I’m sure he doesn’t care about his reputation, but you probably do.

fyi: EotM is not part of WvW matches.

Banbot should be reported for impersonating a staff member.

As far as your situation goes, OP – don’t worry; even if you were running a “rigged” EotM match, it’s not against the ToS. People who say it’s against the ToS aren’t very well read on the ToS.

adika.1809:

hello, i’ll start to the point, i was running eotm(overflow) as frostreach, my zerg was lead by someone nick named kimberly blabla, after she capped tytone she was asking for another tag to replace, because of no one tagged up i decided to tag up and lead my zerg to statuary then to eastern altar gate( i decided that because i see orange sword at BL keep, or let me say OG was there) and when my zerg was ramming the gate the OG zerg not finished their job at BL keep but they just run toward my zerg and wiped my zerg, and after that when i was about to continue my run from FR zone i got whispered by someone(maybe gw2 staff) he has name ‘Banbot’ he said that i was reported for doing a setuped match there…

my fact :
- im not in any voice chat
- my guild tag the time i represent was only me as a member( this is my private tag )
- im grouping with random FR dudes
- im not whispering anyone while im tagging up that time

thank you for that random dude who reported me,
i hope if that ‘Banbot’ guy is real staff and i’m not guilty the one that reported me should punished

sorry for the bad english

thank you
Walking Bag

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You have nothing to worry about. ANet would not contact you IN-GAME about anything. They can review all chat logs without ever getting into the game. So you were just being trolled. Just block them and continue killing zerglings in EOTM.

hannah mee.7925:

Banbot should be reported for impersonating a staff member.

As far as your situation goes, OP – don’t worry; even if you were running a “rigged” EotM match, it’s not against the ToS. People who say it’s against the ToS aren’t very well read on the ToS.

Who did he/she impersonate?

I think you should read the ToS yourself, since you seem to be unaware that it IS against the rules to fix matches.

We’re not talking about two sides ganging up on the third team, this is a guild attempting to control all three sides at once to avoid fighting and/or farm each other… and harassing people who don’t want to fix matches like they do.

Who has the authority to investigate game incidents? Who has the authority to take action against accounts? It appears that Banbot has that authority based on their statements.

unicorngirl.1487:

Who did he/she impersonate?

I think you should read the ToS yourself, since you seem to be unaware that it IS against the rules to fix matches.

We’re not talking about two sides ganging up on the third team, this is a guild attempting to control all three sides at once to avoid fighting and/or farm each other… and harassing people who don’t want to fix matches like they do.

This. No sympathy for OP.

I hope it really was Anet and they take him and his whole guild for rigging the game like that. If it was a troll, couldn’t have happened to a better guy.

Are you worried?

Southern.8973:

That’s not ANet staff. Add the name to your “Friends” or “Blocked” list and you’ll see who it is. S/he has a history of complaining about “Match Fixing” in EotM here on the forums. Guess this person doesn’t know impersonating Staff is bannable.

That’s what I was thinking. First I don’t think staff make an announcement like that ,second I don’t think they ask you if you’re doing something wrong they just look at your chat long (which has been a thing since launch) and finally the text color is all wrong. This person is trolling you, you need to send a report to support so they will get banned for impersonating staff, the forums is the wrong place to post this. But I do have to say that since there are obviously still people selling boss fights in PVE dungeons because their class just happens to be powerful enough, I wouldn’t say that OP is entirely innocent.

This is the only information in their Legal Documentation I could find about match manipulation.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-conduct-breaches-outcomes/:

Engaging in PvP match manipulation, disrupting a PvP match by not actively playing in good faith, or any other form of PvP griefing, exploitation, or abus.e

No other mention apart from PvP.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

22. While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.

No other mention apart from PvP.

Veeber.3192:

This is the only information in their Legal Documentation I could find about match manipulation.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-conduct-breaches-outcomes/:

Engaging in PvP match manipulation, disrupting a PvP match by not actively playing in good faith, or any other form of PvP griefing, exploitation, or abus.e

No other mention apart from PvP.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

22. While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.

No other mention apart from PvP.

WvW is PvP… it doesn’t say “sPvP” does it?

Sabotaging an entire (sorta) WVW map of (probably many) unaware players (like i was before i read the topic and the reddit link)? Explains so much to me now, was leveling a new char in the edge recently and something really was off with the enemie colours… as for the op… seriosly you deserve it and i guess it was just a troll..sadly, a real staff member would be better. Sabotaging other players with such dirty tactics is the bottom of the barrel. Atleast i know where i will be next time something fishy like this pops up in eotm… not on the map.

That………..was pretty obvious trolling to be honest………right now that person is likely laughing there kitten off at this topic.

Anyways as others have said, report them and move on. Impersonating Anet staff is a pretty massive thing against the rules.

If this makes karma train commanders in eotm afraid to tag up, good.

Why do people still take eotm seriously? You can’t match-fix pve.

i think what this guy is saying is “according to contested areas green team must be hitting red keep” but “green team decided to backtrack and smoke out my entire squad”
anyway, that’s a non arena net player.. if they even suspected you of violating game terms you would be instantly disconnected and banned.. they do it in this manner on the forums, and also in the game..
i know this because today i was disconnected during Manual Open World play, thought it was another server crash.. and could not log in, “account permanently terminated” because “botting”
it’s possible i was reported and they decided that killing more than one sparkfly within the hour is some new appalling and inhuman grind tactic        ..my bad, right?

unicorngirl.1487:

Veeber.3192:

This is the only information in their Legal Documentation I could find about match manipulation.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-conduct-breaches-outcomes/:

Engaging in PvP match manipulation, disrupting a PvP match by not actively playing in good faith, or any other form of PvP griefing, exploitation, or abus.e

No other mention apart from PvP.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

22. While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.

No other mention apart from PvP.

WvW is PvP… it doesn’t say “sPvP” does it?

Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder.

Again, it’s about being well read into the ToS – how exactly is organizing ktrains for all 3 sides manipulating a match outcome? You’re doing yourself no favors by throwing out contrivances against these people.

hannah mee.7925:

unicorngirl.1487:

Veeber.3192:

This is the only information in their Legal Documentation I could find about match manipulation.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-conduct-breaches-outcomes/:

Engaging in PvP match manipulation, disrupting a PvP match by not actively playing in good faith, or any other form of PvP griefing, exploitation, or abus.e

No other mention apart from PvP.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

22. While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.

No other mention apart from PvP.

WvW is PvP… it doesn’t say “sPvP” does it?

Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder.

Again, it’s about being well read into the ToS – how exactly is organizing ktrains for all 3 sides manipulating a match outcome? You’re doing yourself no favors by throwing out contrivances against these people.

You must be trolling…

Please stop pretending EotM is anything but PvE.

dietzero.3514:

Please stop pretending EotM is anything but PvE.

It’s WvW. Please stop misusing a WvW area. Thanks!

As I understand it Anet will never notify you via whispers that you’ve been reported, they will just investigate the report.

Anet only really has 2 punishments for problems in the game: temporary suspensions or permanent ban. Either way, the first time you’ll hear of it is when it happens. If you’re in game they’ll boot you and send you a pop up message stating you’ve been suspended/banned. If you’re out of game you’ll find out when you log in.

If it’s not a suspendable/bannable offense then I believe they just make a note in their records and you never hear anything about it. And if it’s a spurious report I believe they investigate the person doing the reporting.

In short, contact support, block the account and play on.

Open a service ticket, and report.

This is banable impersonation.

Michael Henninger.7451:

4. GM whisper text is golden; not purple.

This is REALLY interesting to know. I’ll be sure to let my guild know about this if they ever encounter a situation with someone claiming they are a GM.

Michael Henninger.7451:

Hey everyone,

I want to clarify a couple of points for you that I feel are important.

1. ArenaNet GMs very rarely send unsolicited whispers.

2. ArenaNet Senior GMs all have character names akin to GM Madi Walker and have the ArenaNet Guild Tag.

3. All ArenaNet GMs have GM ‘Hopefully Cool Alias’.#### for a display name.

4. GM whisper text is golden; not purple.

5. Impersonating a employee or agent of ArenaNet will result in an immediate suspension or termination of your account.

Hope this helps you identify real GMs versus the imposters out there.

Hunt safe.

i assume the perpetrator in question will get the ban hammer

Zackie.8923:

Michael Henninger.7451:

Hey everyone,

I want to clarify a couple of points for you that I feel are important.

1. ArenaNet GMs very rarely send unsolicited whispers.

2. ArenaNet Senior GMs all have character names akin to GM Madi Walker and have the ArenaNet Guild Tag.

3. All ArenaNet GMs have GM ‘Hopefully Cool Alias’.#### for a display name.

4. GM whisper text is golden; not purple.

5. Impersonating a employee or agent of ArenaNet will result in an immediate suspension or termination of your account.

Hope this helps you identify real GMs versus the imposters out there.

Hunt safe.

i assume the perpetrator in question will get the ban hammer

I don’t think we’ll ever know but it doesn’t look pretty.

Perhaps you should try playing Protoss

Very, very good clarification. Thanks.

unicorngirl.1487:

dietzero.3514:

Please stop pretending EotM is anything but PvE.

It’s WvW. Please stop misusing a WvW area. Thanks!

I WvW in the actual WvW areas. EotM is for dailies then leaving. It looks pretty, but it is not WvW.

dietzero.3514:

unicorngirl.1487:

dietzero.3514:

Please stop pretending EotM is anything but PvE.

It’s WvW. Please stop misusing a WvW area. Thanks!

I WvW in the actual WvW areas. EotM is for dailies then leaving. It looks pretty, but it is not WvW.

It is what players make it to be. While it was originally designed to be a WvW area, players have made it something else. If the players’ mindset were to change, it could be the WvW area it was meant to be. Alas, I do not see that happening anytime soon.

There’s PvP going on in EotM? Something’s gone horribly wrong.

phaneo.4597:

unicorngirl.1487:

goldenwing.8473:

NightWalker.1405:

I don’t see anywhere on there where they say they are anet. Looks like a roleplayer.

Use of the word “we” implies ANet; hence implied impersonation.

Actually, I was talking about my guild, hence the “we” – I guess he must be paranoid because he’s actually guilty of match fixing and bag farming.

Funny nobody (atleast I think) seems to have noticed that unicorngirl is talking about him/herself from the chat in the screenshot where he/she mentioned “We”. Also funny how if you try to add Banbot to your block list, it shows unicorngirl. Hmm…

An anet rep has seen it, I am guessing we won’t see that poster for awhile after today.

I really hope Ban Bot doesn’t get banned for this. Funny troll, but never did he claim to be A-Net Staff, just spoke with authority, and you fell for it. If he gets Banned, I may just stop buying gems from A-Net, as I wouldn’t want to support a company that can’t take a joke, especially one that follows their own rules.

Sincerely, someone who laughed when he read the chat box.

Loboling.5293:

I really hope Ban Bot doesn’t get banned for this. Funny troll, but never did he claim to be A-Net Staff, just spoke with authority, and you fell for it. If he gets Banned, I may just stop buying gems from A-Net, as I wouldn’t want to support a company that can’t take a joke, especially one that follows their own rules.

Sincerely, someone who laughed when he read the chat box.

This Banbot/UnicornGirl person will either get suspended temporarily or have their account terminated. The wise thing to do would have been to stay quiet about it after being called out on it. Because then no one would realize, except for ArenaNet. Instead, he/she comes on the forum to brag about it, tries to defend his/her actions, and then all but proves that he/she is the one that carried this out. Even if the OP had been win trading, it doesn’t make impersonating a GM right.

Michael,

Michael Henninger.7451:

2. ArenaNet Senior GMs all have character names akin to GM Madi Walker and have the ArenaNet Guild Tag.

3. All ArenaNet GMs have GM ‘Hopefully Cool Alias’.#### for a display name.

does this mean that ‘GM’ is always written in two capital letters? Players are not allowed to create characters with multiple capital letters in a row, so this may be a distinctive difference between them and people who read this post and try impersonating them (outside of whisper chat).

Anyway, thanks for clarification – it’s really nice to know what’s real and what’s not out there!

The reason why eotm is full of pver’s pve’ing is that when it first opened the fighting guilds all showed up, said ‘w t f skyham’ and left, never to return.

adika.1809:

hello, i’ll start to the point, i was running eotm(overflow) as frostreach, my zerg was lead by someone nick named kimberly blabla, after she capped tytone she was asking for another tag to replace, because of no one tagged up i decided to tag up and lead my zerg to statuary then to eastern altar gate( i decided that because i see orange sword at BL keep, or let me say OG was there) and when my zerg was ramming the gate the OG zerg not finished their job at BL keep but they just run toward my zerg and wiped my zerg, and after that when i was about to continue my run from FR zone i got whispered by someone(maybe gw2 staff) he has name ‘Banbot’ he said that i was reported for doing a setuped match there…

my fact :
- im not in any voice chat
- my guild tag the time i represent was only me as a member( this is my private tag )
- im grouping with random FR dudes
- im not whispering anyone while im tagging up that time

thank you for that random dude who reported me,
i hope if that ‘Banbot’ guy is real staff and i’m not guilty the one that reported me should punished

sorry for the bad english

thank you
Walking Bag

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This is why you will never be first.

Coldtart.4785:

The reason why eotm is full of pver’s pve’ing is that when it first opened the fighting guilds all showed up, said ‘w t f skyham’ and left, never to return.

Doesn’t give anyone the right to dictate other people into adopting their style of playing even if EotM was never intended to be just a loot/karma farm. Just like people who demand that Temple events in Orr have to fail so they can farm them repeatedly, or people who get angry when you defeat a champion in Queensdale before their champ train arrives there… Basically people who’re playing the game in a way that it’s not intended to be played (basically exploiting a “design flaw”) and then get upset with people who play the game as it was meant to be.