Guild Wars 2

When arenanet just went down I was booted from my sPvP match. I got back into the match, but I received the Dishonorable debuff. I would like to have this debuff removed, I did not quit the match, and do not warrant the debuff.

same here. i was dropped maybe 4 or 5 times now and that trait popped up. almost 3 days of no pvp allowed. the server gets attacked or whatever and we get these debuffs. need this removed, also! put in a ticket for it on toon Raif Twelve Kill.

Unfortunately, you will need to let it expire naturally. Support does not have a way to remove this so contacting them will not help you.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/61078147-The-Dishonorable-Debuff
How do I get rid of it?
The only way to get rid of the Dishonorable Debuff is to wait 72 hours for it to expire. If you gain another flag for dishonorable gameplay while you are flagged, the timer will be reset, extending the time your account may be subject to the Dishonorable Debuff. The Guild Wars 2 Support Team is unable to remove dishonorable gameplay flags or otherwise alter the Dishonorable Debuff.

Perhaps you could make a thread on the PvP forum about it?

Remember, as well, you only get the debuff after 3 times. It is suggested to stop playing in that context whenever you experience several disconnects.

Good luck.

i doubt their final answer is going to be “yeah, our servers were attacked, and yes, you were dropped because of this. but no, we cant remove the debuff because its obviously your fault.” i mean, they could say that, but they have control over these things. i dont think theyll ever include an asterisk in their explanations stating “unless our servers are attacked and its completely out of everyones hands” but in the spirit of community service, no?

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i doubt their final answer is going to be “yeah, our servers were attacked, and yes, you were dropped because of this. but no, we cant remove the debuff because its obviously your fault.” i mean, they could say that, but they have control over these things. i dont think theyll ever include an asterisk in their explanations stating “unless our servers are attacked and its completely out of everyones hands” but in the spirit of community service, no?

The quote says they are unable to remove the debuff. What they are saying there is they don’t have the tools, the ability, to do so. At that point, it doesn’t matter whose fault it is. If they can’t do it, they can’t.

ill post whatever it is they answer with, if they ever answer it. i can see how youre reading that, but since they dont have a line there that says “because we dont have the resources to do so” im hoping it means “because we dont know of any reason that we should do it.”

Makes perfect sense to prevent CS from mucking with database in terms of removing a penalty. If they allowed it then every PvP player who disconnects will claim local ISP outage, power failure, cat ate the Cat 5 cable, etc. as the reason they disconnected. Easiest way to stop that from happening is to not allow anyone access to that flag.

With my experience in game support, even if game support or even the higher-ups with more advanced in-game tools can’t get access to making these DB-level+ modifications, when there is a large-scale issue like this, it’s good practice to notify the DB team to perform such modifications to the database and not penalize players for something which was not their responsibility or their fault.