Guild Wars 2

About an hour ago I was in a game of ranked arena in legacy of the foefire. We were losing when a rev announced that he was going afk because he thought our thief was a bad player. After the score had reached about 400-50 to the enemy team I jokingly said in chat that I liked it when people went afk and I think it helps the community improve (I didn’t use any insults of any kind, I just said it as a joke, trying to be funny) and I sent the guy who went afk 10 gold and said it was his reward. this is what I do with everyone who rage whispers me or otherwise is angry with me in game. I just find it funny to give gold to people who are annoyed at me. Next game I was with the same person and he stayed afk all game, demanding that I sent him another 10 gold, which I did not do although he told everyone I gave him gold the last game.

Until someone said in team chat, the thought of this being match manipulation never even crossed my mind, I just thought I was having a bit of fun. Concerned that I had broken the rules, I said what had happened in heart of the mists and asked if what I did was match manipulation and one person said that it was. I have already said that I won’t do this again to afk people but I want a definite answer if what I did was match manipulation or not (not that I am going to do this again even if it isn’t, just to avoid confusion).

I am going to make myself very clear here, I did NOT pay the person to afk. He was already afk and the game was already lost when I sent him the gold. The only reason I sent him anything at all was as a little joke and because I think it is funny. I would not support anyone going afk under any circumstances and I have said this in previous forum posts as well.

Was what I did match manipulation or not?

P.S. I am extremely scared of being banned for accidentally breaking the rules so that is what made me feel like I had to post this because I want to make it clear to everyone that I would never intend to break any of this game’s rules.

It can be seen as such, the fact you paid gold out would make it look worse for you, hell if I ever see you I’m gonna rage at you so I can get ten gold out of you.

I will make sure to rage quit everytime i’m in your team…. I needs da money

dude what

/15chars

if that’s match manipulation, your doing it wrong. normally you would pay the other team to afk so your team gets the win. but you should never give money to people in pvp as it will always be seen as shady, just block the afker and use the new report option and leave the sulking child for anet to deal with.