That’s awesome. But where are the dev’s when there are people flying and and going invisible for an indefinite period of time?
I remember a while back when we were facing Far Shiverpeaks and there was a Thief who was descending in to towers, killing people while both invisible and invulnerable and some other guy (I assume a different guy) who was using an invisible unkillable golem to take keeps and towers. I even have screenshots of my conversation with the Thief that I had sent in and nothing was done. This was just one of many incidents that have occurred as well.
I don’t expect these people to be banned immediately. GM’s are only human being and sometimes it may take a while before they can take action for what ever reason… But with the evidence provided and the frequency of the claims, you’d think they’d be a bit more swift in their policing. If a hacker is so comfortable with abusing the game that he/she can say to me they won’t get caught because they’ve been doing it for a very long time, I think something is wrong.
If Anet has a policy to let players play how they want, that’s fine. I understand that posting specific names of people can result in you getting in to trouble instead of the person you’re trying to get “arrested” so to speak. But when it comes to a situation like this… I just plain do not understand how GM’s decide to handle it.. Which is basically not handling it at all and deleting your thread.
Why that Gm should be visible ?
Was that necessary?….Look the posts now..You are judged about the game and how the Gm’s has Neutral stance against incidents like this…..
If i want to contact i know where i can find the support team that’s for sure …that’s why you have given me those tools to report or….. those tools doesn’t work?
Anyway does Anet knows what the Gm’s doing ??….and how you will protect your customers that SPENDING money for this game ???
Crius a river, why so angry about some GM checking out what is happening. Least they show their presence now – something lots of people including me are welcoming it to perhaps get rid of the stubborn hackers/cheaters out there. It is not an easy job but they are willing to put up with it now.
Keep the good work up Michael and comrades and Merry Xmas to ya all at Anet!
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Thank Prime for referees. (When they laid off the referees was when oRvR in WAR fell completely to the exploiters.) And doubly thank Prime for referees who work holidays. A million times thank you.
this is really awesome, theres been quite a lot of exploit and hacks going on by a few individuals in tier 1 NA ruining the gameplay somewhat. i would also like to suggest making some improvements to the report procedure to allow reporting for flyhacking/speedhacking /glitching, currently we report it as just botting.
I haven’t read this entire thread because it started to become a lot of “I heard he/she did this”. Here’s what is happening and you’re going to see more of it.
There are 6 GMs with the power to monitor WvW in the live environment and all work directly under me. The shots above are of me (GM Proheals) standing in Bay after BlackGate took the point.
I ran all the way from TCs Gari into Bay visible and was a Guardian the entire time. No tool exists to allow anyone to switch professions.
We have the ability to switch to any of the 3 teams (blue/green/red) in order to properly police WvW. This allows us to visibly take action against players due to recent outcry that we aren’t actually there doing anything. We can also switch to a fourth team making us ‘friendly’ to all teams but we can’t communicate with you when we do. We also can’t communicate with hostile teams which is why we’re team switching.
These characters are separate from both our play and work accounts – and when used in WvW are only policing. Any interaction such as killing or taking a point (standing in the circle) will flag for audit.
This wasn’t a test. I was there doing live monitoring of the WvW environment. We’re looking for hacks, invisible players, siege griefing, and more. We’ll be present on all servers randomly for both NA & EU and have no bearing on the outcome of a match.
Many of you know me in game and I thank you for the positive feedback we’re getting while we work on keeping WvW balanced and fair. If you helped me take down a cheater – cheers!
that’s nice. is there any new upcoming content for wvw? it’s pretty much dead game.
Since this looks like one of the only posts where the Dev team is actively awnsering questions, plz anet, fix the walls @ SM, S outer+inner+NW inner are jumpable/lootbagjump. Also it is possible to put a trebuchet @ red spawn (jump down the rock @ waterfall and throw it upstairs) and it is possible to place rams on the klovan side WG lowlands since it’s always a paper gate this clearly doesn’t work like intended ^.^ (btw GJ on fixing WG valley+broken bottle)
It’s obvious a lot of people in this thread seen the title and pictures then commented before actually reading what was going on….
It’s actually great from my point of view to see the Devs out and about again in WvW, for a while there I thought maybe WvW was cast aside due to the low revenue we produce compared to the PvE playerbase
I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
There are 6 GMs with the power to monitor WvW in the live environment and all work directly under me.
6 seems like a small number to monitor all of WvW. Is this a test before expanding the team or is your data indicating you can monitor everything with just 6?
I’m not trying to be critical, just mildly curious.
Either way, I think it’s cool that we may see visible dev oversight when there’s a problem.
Great question. The total number is much larger, only those 6 and myself will ever be visible.
6 people… and I bet all only in tier 1 or maybe 2. Always seem to forget about the other tiers :/
I think it would be cool if ANET gave their in game enforcers/monitors a referee skin to show they are in game to referee….to include a whistle as an accessory :-)
Also…this thread pleased me. It demonstrates ANET’s commitment to policing WvW to identify cheaters….well done!
I haven’t read this entire thread because it started to become a lot of “I heard he/she did this”. Here’s what is happening and you’re going to see more of it.
There are 6 GMs with the power to monitor WvW in the live environment and all work directly under me. The shots above are of me (GM Proheals) standing in Bay after BlackGate took the point.
I ran all the way from TCs Gari into Bay visible and was a Guardian the entire time. No tool exists to allow anyone to switch professions.
We have the ability to switch to any of the 3 teams (blue/green/red) in order to properly police WvW. This allows us to visibly take action against players due to recent outcry that we aren’t actually there doing anything. We can also switch to a fourth team making us ‘friendly’ to all teams but we can’t communicate with you when we do. We also can’t communicate with hostile teams which is why we’re team switching.
These characters are separate from both our play and work accounts – and when used in WvW are only policing. Any interaction such as killing or taking a point (standing in the circle) will flag for audit.
This wasn’t a test. I was there doing live monitoring of the WvW environment. We’re looking for hacks, invisible players, siege griefing, and more. We’ll be present on all servers randomly for both NA & EU and have no bearing on the outcome of a match.
Many of you know me in game and I thank you for the positive feedback we’re getting while we work on keeping WvW balanced and fair. If you helped me take down a cheater – cheers!
I can only imagine the temptation to break out the loot stick and spam 1 is overwhelming! If I had this power, you could bet your kitten that I would be at Eboneigh / Brownmane / Blackwicker camp killing all those kitten centaurs! I am so sick and tired of people not taking the eliminate the centaur threat event seriously. Centaurs are monsters and every single one of them, be it in Kryta or the Mists, needs to be hunted down and slain like the filthy flea and tick infested loathsome beasts they are!!!
Getting rid of hackers and cheaters is always great news, please keep up the good work!! And if possible, please introduce a friendly NPC like Heal-O-Tron in the centaur camps so I don’t have to constantly respawn to kill the chieftain there. I’m up to about a 3% success rate, which I honestly feel is pretty good, but an NPC healer would probably boost my percentage at least 5 points! :D
Are there any GMs in EU, mostly prime time at 7pm GMT that we can contact? Because in last year I have seen few guys cheating all the time, no responses for sending mail to exploits.
Really good to see GMs in game, and responding in this thread! Great work!!! Good to see ya all are actively ready to pull the ban stick out……I don’t mind seeing you at all doing your god mode thing in WvW.
And to those posters who are still whining in this thread…….don’t you need to go clean your room, take the trash out, write your ‘what I did over Christmas break’ paper, or something like that? /smh
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Yesterday I was killing the enemy sentry turrets in EOTM that no one else on my team could be bothered to kill, but there was 1 I couldn’t get – it was actually inside the altar underground. Some player must have been able to get inside and put one in there – making it impossible to destroy. The audacity an enemy player had to do that and cheat in order to find out our locations was unbelievable. So I fixed it by equipping my handy dandy scepter/focus on my ele and destroyed that cheater’s sentry turret with Dragon’s Tooth
Erm. Why is the GM on monitoring duty visible at all? The only explanation I could figure is that you want to show that you’re there to enforce the rules and catch hackers, sort of like police patrolling in uniform for pre-emptive law enforcement. Could work, of course, if the hackers learn that they might be monitored at any time, they might be discouraged from hacking in the first place.
