Guild Wars 2

I have read in some game news that another MMO will implement something new: A prison server. And I consider this could be taken in consideration for GW2 too.

Here is the idea applied to GW2 system.

We all know that there are always players who infringe the terms of service and user agreements. Some are doing it on purpose and some are doing it accidentally.
We also know A-net has some polices for suspending and complete banning accounts.
All banned accounts are no longer in service but this is not stopping the “bad players” to buy a new GW2 account and start their own thing again..

The suggestion is to create an Exiled Territory server where all accounts who are suspended or banned will be assigned to:
The suspended ones will be assigned for the suspension period
while the banned ones will forever be locked to this server

The Exiled Territory server will have restrictions for the players:

- no selling in the trading post (they can buy stuff tho)
- no mail service (no sending or receiving messages even from the game itself like birthday email, etc)
- no “gold to gems” exchange while “gems to gold” will be allowed
- no whispering to accounts outside the Exiled Territory server while all other chat within the server will be allowed
- no party or guild with players from other servers but they can join local parties or guilds. When an account is sent to the Exiled Territory server, they will loose the guilds they were in and they will also lose the friends list. (no need of the list if you cant whisper to them right?)
- no PvP or WvW options. Just PvE and private arenas
- no LFG tool because they can’t join other servers so they need to do the recruiting locally
- no transfer allowed to other servers even if all characters are deleted.

The character selection light background will be changed into a prison cell background

The Exiled Territory server won’t be listed in the server list due to “no transfer from or into” policy and also will not count into “Merging servers” system

The general idea is this.
A-net won’t send their accounts to “death sentence” but instead they will sent them to “life imprisonment”

They have been bullies, they will live among bullies but they wont be able to scam each other. They will be able to buy things from the gem store if they want to or they can just live a simple experience.

So, instead of semi(blocking access for a few days) or permabanning(complete deletion) an account, you want to torment them too? Those deserving of a semi-ban wont be able to log in at all and that is fitting punishment for being a kittenhead. (Yes, I typed kitten)

It’s far more punishing for peoples accounts to be deleted than to be exiled. Why? If they were genuine players that were just being kittens, they would lose their character names forever, that’s a big deal to some people. They have to rebuy the game, which at the moment is the expansion price, again why? Because they have to part with something IRL to play again. Something something psychology, which would benefit Anet with another account purchase.

Don’t fix what isn’t broke.

People that breaks the rules should be punished, not just moved.
Why should ArenaNet spend time and resources creating something for people that breaks the rules?

The fact that you also seems to want them to still be able to actually effect the economy in the live game would also make this completely pointless.

If this game was in development then maybe this could be an option.

But since it’s already out, I don’t think it would work. Because it seems as if they wouldn’t mind cheating. Since they already have a policy of banning you and stuff.

Again, a lot of other companies are doing this and it is a fine option… but not for a game already released. It would be too much backpeadaling. (sp)

Here is a game already released

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq2/index.php?threads%2Fthe-prison-server-experiment-drunder.562937%2F

Ronah Lynda.2496:

All banned accounts are no longer in service but this is not stopping the “bad players” to buy a new GW2 account and start their own thing again..

And your solution would prevent this how?

Turamarth.3248:

Ronah Lynda.2496:

All banned accounts are no longer in service but this is not stopping the “bad players” to buy a new GW2 account and start their own thing again..

And your solution would prevent this how?

Of course they could buy a new normal account and start the things again… but why would they do it? On the Exiled Territory server will be no rules of conduct or any terms of use. Banned people could play the way they want: botting, grieving, insulting. etc. They will be among people like them. Usually, bad people are not among bad people to see how they actually are. They are bullies with the weak ones.
Being a bully with a bully its a different situation.
So, Anet will still be making money out of them becasue the gem store will be open.
They won’t necessarily want another account in the same Exiled Territory, so in the case they are buying a new normal account they could be more careful with it becasue if they want to be bad they have already the opportunity to be.

That is of course assuming that they would use the gem store, and simply not stop playing and/or buy a new account.

What you are suggesting is basically that ArenaNet should spend time and resources on creating something that will only ever benefit people that broke the rules. Something that is completely idiotic in my eyes.

I’m not seeing the value of lumping together in one server all the people you would normally ban and stop supervising or controlling them. This gives them free reign to locate each and every exploit or way to crash the servers and spread the information to the players in the non prison servers. (Because anyone who thinks they won’t still be talking to guildies, friends and like minded people who are on the regular maps is naive).

GW2 servers dont look they cant handle much (game engine), if u take out some of that power even on virtualization to host a “private” server for cheaters, sound a bit to costy solution for nothing, players that does not follow the rules should be banned.

They would research exploits and such in the prison server and buy a new account to terrorize in the non-prison servers. The bullies would still find a way to terrorize their targets.

Solves nothing and probably makes the problem worse due to their ability to freely research and discuss in chat with others who feel the same way with no risk of being reported.