Guild Wars 2

A player asked this question in the dungeons forum (question #3 is not relevant to WvW):

So say two buddies join a group on the LFG that is at the last boss, kick everyone out, then give the slots away to their friends.

1) What would be done to these players?
2) Would it matter if it was their first time?
3) Would it matter if the instance that they stole was listed by a seller?

If you could answer those three questions, I think it would clear a lot of things up. We’ve heard vague, sometimes conflicting answers to these, and it’d be great to have an clear-cut response.

This was the dev response from Michael Henninger. (It’s a new policy, I’m not 100% sure whether it’s currently being applied):

- #1 & #2
1st offense would be suspension.
2nd time would be bye-bye.
– #3
It wouldn’t matter outside of doing bad things. A seller being involved is irrelevant to the outcome of our investigation.

Also – any time an account has multiple notes for being a ‘bad seed’ we take those other things into account and make decisions on a case by case basis. That’s why you hear us spout that phrase so often.

Edit for formatting.

Anyone one else agree that it’s just as easy — or even easier — for a GM to determine whether someone is siege trolling, golem jacking/suiciding, or turning siege around 180 degrees.

So why no GMs for WvW? Why are we discussing automated fixes (that all have significant negatives, and even if implemented, won’t be coming for quite a while)?

P.S. And one of the worst griefing methods: draining supply during an attack by buying merchants should be just as easy to investigate (of course this one is a but more fuzzy in terms of determining guilt, but I’d say one warning after doing it twice then punishments after that should be fair).

One GM to the other: Dude i see a topic about World vs World, whats that? New living story update?