Guild Wars 2

Hey i got a question.

I was wondering how one of my friends friend makes money he has about 500 or so gold. He told me he was in a guild once about a month or so ago he was in a guild and took everything from the bank then got kicked 10 or so minutes later

Would he eventually get banned from the game though for it? Or can you not get banned for guild bank stealing?

Edit: P.S Dang i said or so alot, or so.

well it’s pretty low. don’t see it being against the ToS though.

Not against the ToS. Unfortunately, being a jerk is not always a bannable offense.

It’s really a case by case basis type thing I would think.

If the guild reported him for it, I think Anet would look into it. Not sure if they would take any action as it is a player issue and not a hacking or exploit. And since he did it a month ago and still has the money, it would seem that no action was taken against him for it.

The guild trusted him enough to give him high enough status to withdrawal from the guild bank. So it is kind of on the guild leader for giving him access to all their gold. Anet really can’t do much about it as there was no scam or anything involved. It was just simply misplaced trust.

But it is a grey area really. Other games will ban the person or remove the gold for doing such things, while others will chalk it up to player error and do nothing. No one really knows for sure.

I don’t think you could get banned because it’s not against the ToS.

And really it’s a fairly obviously possibility that guilds should consider when defining ranks and permissions. Guild leaders can decide who has access, not just to the guild bank as a whole but to each section of it, so it’s their responsibility to make sure members only have access to items the leader is willing to let them have. (I’d also say regular guild members have a responsibility, to a lesser extent, to consider who can withdraw items they deposit and what they might do with them. If you’re not ok with someone selling it on the TP for personal profit don’t deposit it unless you trust everyone with access not to do that.)

Same way you have to accept that if you give everyone permission to claim/unclaim WvW forts someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing might come along and mess things up.

You might get banned eventually if many people report you for the same reason. They’d probably ban your friend (if he was reported via email support) for scamming and that even depends on which GM is reviewing the logs…and what they consider the point of when to punish someone.

I sure hope so.

I have had this happen to a guild in several games. In 2-3 of them, the items were restored. In one case, the player received a temp ban, even though there wasn’t anything specific in that game’s ToS that allowed it. In other cases, we were simply told to be careful who to trust and no further action was taken. It depends a lot on the game’s policy and possibly on the particular GM.

Personally, I’d hope GW2 falls on the end of the spectrum that punishes these things, since the overall game isn’t a FFA sandbox that encourages predatory behavior. (If it was, then yeah, I’d say the guild should just have to suck it up.)

Lets just say i’d find a different friend, anyone like that will steal from you the moment they get the chance, oh and they are not your friend those types of people have no friends..

Dante.1508:

Lets just say i’d find a different friend, anyone like that will steal from you the moment they get the chance, oh and they are not your friend those types of people have no friends..

Don’t worry its my friends friend. I dont like the dude much either but hes just a friend of my friends.

The more common situation is for guild leaders to steal from the bank to enrich themselves while denying common members from doing the same. Does that ever get punished?

Without knowing more about the circumstances of each case, I’d withhold judgment and hope Anet does the same. If this case is what it sounds like, the guy is a jerk but the guild leaders were naive.

True i heard cases of that as well with a guild leader telling everyone to put money in the guild for a grand prize drawing on a date and swiped all the cash.

And its true if they are naive enough to trust anyone its more fault then theirs.

But eh idk both sides r true.

Well i guess my answer sums up as no they dont.

But if anyone else has a different opinion feel free to give it.