Guild Wars 2

Pouring one out for all my dead homies!

It’s been a wild ride boys. Godspeed

Shatter dies with me…

Ding dong cheaters are gone. Why can’t kiddos just play fair.

This is why we can’t have nice things!

permanent dishonor meaning just this season? Or For all seasons to come?

“Where’s the proof?”
- Sly

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

When grown adults cheat on a game.
Smh.
Y’all just need to go lay down.

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

Justice. Now give them a dishonored tag instead of a crown or league icon, finish the job.

Wow I commend anet for actually doing something, this should deter all future buyers trying to cheat monthly AT as well.

“Thanks for sharing”

“press F to pay your respects” doesn’t press anything at all

It would not deter future buyers because the buyers are now only prevented from participating in pvp (which they did not participate in previously), they are pve-ers. In no way was their regular routine game play affected (aka pve and some wvw for pips). Slap on the wrist for the pve-ers. But better that something was done as opposed to nothing at all.

Naru is most likely relieved he cant get 1v2d by zorh without moa anymore now.

giving PvErs permanent dishonor seems like way less of a punishment than giving PvPers permanent dishonor.

CJTheKilla.1054:

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

Good bait, but needs more salt.

@valun, considering they threw 400 dollars to these guys and now have nothing to show for it seems like it might make up for that.

Andromeda.8293:

It would not deter future buyers because the buyers are now only prevented from participating in pvp (which they did not participate in previously), they are pve-ers. In no way was their regular routine game play affected (aka pve and some wvw for pips). Slap on the wrist for the pve-ers. But better that something was done as opposed to nothing at all.

The buyers are down $400 each and I doubt they are getting there money back, Abjured did there job and got them first place, not their fault the buyers had likely never pvp’d before thus making it super obvious they paid someone to play for them.

Nos.9803:

It’s been a wild ride boys. Godspeed

Bye Nos my bestest friend ever

Well done. Keep up the good work.

wheres sly when you wonna say “Btw LULz” to him/her

Thank you for taking action.

tfw when naru’s last big play was getting 1v2d by zorh. lul.

Hannibal.6294:

tfw when naru’s last big play was getting 1v2d by zorh. lul.

LMAO

Lascax.2163:

CJTheKilla.1054:

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

Good bait, but needs more salt.

Wasn’t bait. Was the truth. Legit banned the NA pvp scene so now what high tier gameplay are we gonna watch?
NA pvp scene is officially non-existant now ezpz

Storm.6408:

Shatter dies with me…

God bless THE BOY. May he rest in peace.

R.I.P

Here’s your freaking proof Sly.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoweGN8cm5g]

aerodynamique.5267:

Storm.6408:

Shatter dies with me…

God bless THE BOY. May he rest in peace.

R.I.P

I second that, God Bless THE BOY. Shatter mesmer will never be the same.

CJTheKilla.1054:

Lascax.2163:

CJTheKilla.1054:

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

Good bait, but needs more salt.

Wasn’t bait. Was the truth. Legit banned the NA pvp scene so now what high tier gameplay are we gonna watch?
NA pvp scene is officially non-existant now ezpz

And? Should they have let them be?

Good work. People like this only serve to ruin the game for everyone else. Good work to get these people out of the game for good.

RIP NA PVP. We just can’t have nice things.

Sucks you guys got banned from the only game your good at

Anet will likely do more tournaments with cash prizes with the expansion as a publicity stunt. I presume these people will be banned for those. Hilarious and awesome. They spend thousands of hours playing a game nobody else plays to a reasonable level and then get themselves banned before a potential restart of anet prize money,

Literally the best example of karma ever. These people really kittened themselves over lol

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

In addition, we have removed prizes gained by the winning players and have cleared the statues. They will retain the titles for a short while until we can remove them in the future.

I just heard one of them was running around in wvw with the crown, confirm/deny that the crown was removed please.

lulz
/Sly

It’s a sad state of affairs. I hope the 0 tolerance for unethical behavior in sPvP continue.

if nos and zeromis can no longer do leagues that means they wont show up in my matches anymore!

I do believe that their actions are serious, and I appreciate anet’s transparency. However, a permanent ban from pvp for people who only pvp is basically a perma-ban entirely, which seems contrary to anet’s usual banning philosophy. From what I understand, perma bans are almost never given out-bans are usually a 1-2 year-thing.

I’m speaking not to defend the actions of these players, but to ask why anet has taken a somewhat different and aggressive stance here. I kindly ask Ben or another dev here to explain this decision further.

Aeroxe.8140:

I do believe that their actions are serious, and I appreciate anet’s transparency. However, a permanent ban from pvp for people who only pvp is basically a perma-ban entirely, which seems contrary to anet’s usual banning philosophy. From what I understand, perma bans are almost never given out-bans are usually a 1-2 year-thing.

I’m speaking not to defend the actions of these players, but to ask why anet has taken a somewhat different and aggressive stance here. I kindly ask Ben or another dev here to explain this decision further.

RMT, account sharing and basically ruining the first Monthly Tournament (on NA) would be my guess.

Aeroxe.8140:

I do believe that their actions are serious, and I appreciate anet’s transparency. However, a permanent ban from pvp for people who only pvp is basically a perma-ban entirely, which seems contrary to anet’s usual banning philosophy. From what I understand, perma bans are almost never given out-bans are usually a 1-2 year-thing.

I’m speaking not to defend the actions of these players, but to ask why anet has taken a somewhat different and aggressive stance here. I implore Ben or another dev to elaborate on this decision further.

Maybe because Anet spent months working on this new tournament system only to have the FIRST monthly AT cheated by the top players they built this specific system for, for personal gain and greed. What they did was disrespectful and toxic and makes SPvP, something Anet has been trying to rebuild and promote, a joke.

Aeroxe.8140:

I do believe that their actions are serious, and I appreciate anet’s transparency. However, a permanent ban from pvp for people who only pvp is basically a perma-ban entirely, which seems contrary to anet’s usual banning philosophy. From what I understand, perma bans are almost never given out-bans are usually a 1-2 year-thing.

I’m speaking not to defend the actions of these players, but to ask why anet has taken a somewhat different and aggressive stance here. I kindly ask Ben or another dev here to explain this decision further.

Are you kidding me? They just earned $400.00 each for their actions, they can buy new accounts if they want to play that badly…

There’s some people on that list I wish weren’t banned but I’d rather you guys have a hard stance than a weak one (like Blizzard does in Overwatch). Good job.

Im so happy and thankfull this happend, now we can have fair game and a MUCH less manipulated matches, GOOD JOB anet u deserve my admiration on how efficient u did this. CHEERS, keep up the good work!.

CJTheKilla.1054:

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

If they hadn’t broken the rules many times already maybe you’d have a point worth discussing.

CJTheKilla.1054:

Lascax.2163:

CJTheKilla.1054:

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

Good bait, but needs more salt.

Wasn’t bait. Was the truth. Legit banned the NA pvp scene so now what high tier gameplay are we gonna watch?
NA pvp scene is officially non-existant now ezpz

Bro kitten, ill be there to kitten really quick, cheers. because you know manipulating the game is so pro!, GOD im so happy about this xD!!!.

Aeroxe.8140:

I do believe that their actions are serious, and I appreciate anet’s transparency. However, a permanent ban from pvp for people who only pvp is basically a perma-ban entirely, which seems contrary to anet’s usual banning philosophy. From what I understand, perma bans are almost never given out-bans are usually a 1-2 year-thing.

I’m speaking not to defend the actions of these players, but to ask why anet has taken a somewhat different and aggressive stance here. I kindly ask Ben or another dev here to explain this decision further.

It is obvious. They spent ages making flagship automated tournaments and then in the very first one it was ruined by players. This hurts anets business. Hype for these ATs is now dead due to the actions of these players. It has killed ATs as players no longer have faith in them. It cheapens the winning of the tournaments. In short, this really hurt anet and the pvp community. Such an action deserves a long ban.

Just to clarify my statement as a lot of people seem to replying to it→I understand the reasons for the ban: RMT, account sharing, abuse of game systems, etc. What I’m looking for though is clarification as to why it was necessarily a perma-ban, as opposed to the usual lengthy temp ban of a one to a few years.