Quick question on support policy
ArenaNet Communications Manager
Yesterday there was a player in Queensdale calling out events, providing the waypoint location. Which sounds fine, except that he (assuming gender simply for clarity throughout the post) was calling them out even when no event was active.
I left Queensdale and did other things, but he was still going when I returned. I finally blocked him just because I didn’t want to hear it any more. This works fine for me, but I have to wonder if this is a reportable action or not.
After all, the only thing he’s doing is calling out events. It’s not really verbal harassment, or spamming, or scamming. None of the categories in the report options seems to apply to just plain “making other people waste their time and coin on travel” (a.k.a. griefing) but I certainly can’t see it as truly desired behavior. In his mind he might even have been very funny, though it was clearly frustrating many people who zoned in and got caught by his “trolling.”
TL;DR:
Is calling out a non-existent event reportable?
If a person was to report behavior like this, how should it be done?
It’s certainly unfriendly. It’s certainly a time waster. Is it actionable? I guess I wonder under what category you would report. It’s not offensive. It’s not harassing. It’s not about gold sales.
I don’t condone it, I guess it would just require someone to submit a ticket to get it reviewed, and if that happens, we would be glad to take a look at the chat records.
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet
Sounds like scamming since the player is tricking others into spending ingame money to warp to a waypoint for a nonexistent event.
If he is calling the same event over and over again, it can be spamming no ?