Guild Wars 2

Ok, I’ve joined a few games in the Mists with one side at 0 points and the other at… well the rest. I go to the area where I see the rest of my team at and low and behold, they are just standing around while the other team gets the points. Neither side is fighting one another. Is that actually within the rules to do? Seems to me it’s cheating to farm Glory.

prob’ly commercial glory powerlevelers

Definitely cheating. Next time take screenshots or make a video, then report them.

I report them, but not sure what to classify it under.

Well I think the actually trading of matches would totally fit with the ethic of the game.

Sorta like in WvWvW, if blue and green agree to beat up on red, or to trade an asset between themselves, that’s really just part of politics, just like real life.

What do you suppose they’re getting by doing it? No big advantage over you, so what do you care?

I care because I joined a match for PvP. If neither side is actually participating and is instead farming glory ranks then I believe they should be reported.

It’s completely fine to team up in W3 as that’s the main reason behind having 3 sides fighting, to ensure even and fun matches. What they are doing in sPvP is equivalent of Red winning because Blue/Green just stood at the home base and did nothing. Helping each other out to overtake Red is good, having all of both servers stay back and do absolutely nothing to give Red easy wins is not.

Pretty sure glory farming is not allowed and should be reported, which I’m sure ANet will act upon.

Seems most of the “emptyish” games are filled with people doing it. I must have come across at least 5 games of one side wearing no armor just standing around doing nothing while the other side capped everything then killed them. Was hoping for some decent smaller scale matches but I gave up on that.

They’re using the system in a way it was not intended so I’d say exploit?