Guild Wars 2

Griefers pose a problem to our gaming community. A griefing report button should be added in game.

Furthermore, should a griefer be found guilty, i suggest that they should be locked in an in-game prison where they must stay online for an period of time before they are released rather than temporary ban

Problem is, how would ANet staff know someone was guilty of what they were accused of, unless they saw them doing it? It would add a lot of work to the staff to have to run around, find the player who has been reported, and then spend x amount of time watching them to see if they are actually guilty.

While I agree people can be annoying sometimes, to police such actions in game would require some way of monitoring their actions besides following them around, as that is just going to add time they don’t have to ANet’s workload.

While they do what they can, such policing would require too much workload hence why they give us these options. Namely the block feature.

Block & move on.

it can be hard to tell intentional griefing from someone simply playing without paying attention to what you want. Even something as apparently cut and dried as someone sitting at a turret at Teq may be someone who got called away from the computer or it could be someone who is new and doesn’t pay attention to map chat and doesn’t realize that the turrets are important to the event. In other words it’s very difficult to tell if the griefing was on purpose or accidental or a angry response to other people yelling at him after making a mistake.

It is very rare, but there are cases like this:

In crown-pavillion I witnessed a player tagging commander on even though every boss had a commander. Then he proceeded to pull all the extra-mobs he could to the players and even asked players to attack bosses that were already in dmg-stop. While this might seem long ago, the problem still stands: There are people griefing so obvious that everyone just wants to report them.

Especially orgas have their problems being targeted by haters. You can ban them from Ts, but somehow they’ll always find a way to enter the map and place boxes of fun right where the eles will be dropping conjures, pull husks into the zerg at TT and knock abominations into the zerg and batterie at Tequatl. Currently the only option to report such people is to record a video and send it to ANet’s Support.