Guild Wars 2

I’ve suspected for awhile now that in-game reports achieves SFA, so….

After losing too many games (not to mention rating points) to AFK’ers I decided to try something different. I submitted a “Report A Player” using the support ticket system.

Got a response within 24hrs, here it is:

Thanks for the report. I’ve looked into it and found that they have been manipulating matches. I cannot discuss the actions taken against the account but rest assured that is being handled appropriately.

Now I’m not sure what “handled appropriately” means, but at least it got a response and was acknowledged.

Few tips on what to include in your report so it can be handled quickly:

• Take screenshots, including end result showing loss of rating points. Cos you know you are going to lose that match.
• Toon name or username (eg MissCee.1295) of player you are reporting
• Date & time (include timezone) of occurrence
• Details of situation of when/why they went afk

You will receive an automated response from the ticket system. Reply to this and attach screenshots. I could not find a way to attach pics to original ticket.

I know its extra work and a pain in the kitten none of us should have to deal with, but its a start and may compel Anet to start addressing the community’s broader concerns about match manipulation.

good tip, i think if everyone did this once a day to a person who they knew was manipulating it could weed these players out pretty well.

it is not manipulating. they are just pve people who want those free ascended so all they do is afk in the matches and do no work (just like pve) and get rewarded. this is how anet works, do nothing and get rewarded for it.

also, many things can go wrong for players and reporting them for being “AFK” may not be the situation. I personaly have crappy internet and it scares me that if I dc or freeze someone may Report me for manipulating :I
so even though you want to get rid of these players there is no real purpose behind your plea. there are just many variables that you have to look at to suspect that people are actually match manipulating.

p.s. if you are getting mad at people for giving up half way in because maybe the team/scores are ridiculous it does not mean that they are match manipulating because at least they tried.

A few days ago I decided to try my warrior that I play only in PvE in PvP. I ended up in a match with 3 other warriors and since my main for PvP is a Thief I decided to switch. For the 20sec it took me to get back in the match I got reported, the dude actually apologized for the report, he thought I was quitting. 4 warriors in 1 match and he thought I was quitting!!! Nice work dude, nice work!