Guild Wars 2

I read the Rules of Conduct today while browsing on reddit and §22 says :“While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder.”

So.. If you join or maintain a private PvP server with possible progression and set the rule that Red/Blue always wins, aren’t you basically manipulating the outcome of the match via setting rules and threatening bans (I still don’t know if it’s even possible to ban someone from a specific private PvP server) while providing rewards for it or does this rule (and the whole Match Manipulation thing) only apply to Ranked / Unranked Arena since you don’t really “ladder” in HotJoin (you still progress in ranks/reward tracks, but you won’t be listed in the leaderboards) ?

On a sidenote, what are your opinions/thoughts on those RankFarm-servers? People apparently either hate or love them, and I haven’t found any real discussions on the forums here either.

Rank farming has already been nerfed quite a long time ago, you can’t get more than 10,000 rank points from custom arenas and you get far less rank points for a match that finishes within a few minutes. The only thing to ‘farm’ is certain achievements that can be done outside of rated games, although you’d get AP faster by doing jumping puzzles.

Because of this, I don’t particularly pay much attention to rank farmers since they’re basically wasting time.

I´ve been there once, just because i was interested in the outcome of it. thb it´s really not worth it and much more relevant: it´s extremly boring and you don´t feel rewarded at all.
It´s like hitting a puppet and expecting to get 100xp each hit.
But hey, if you´re into that, why not, bore yourself and complain about GW2 being boring in the forum later…

AmmokK.5437:

I´ve been there once, just because i was interested in the outcome of it. thb it´s really not worth it and much more relevant: it´s extremly boring and you don´t feel rewarded at all.
It´s like hitting a puppet and expecting to get 100xp each hit.
But hey, if you´re into that, why not, bore yourself and complain about GW2 being boring in the forum later…

Rank is a factor in matchmaking. By farming rank via match manipulation, they’ll mess up matchmaking once they go ranked.

Besides it’s illegal and those players should be banned.