Guild Wars 2

I guess that the GM was feeling like a glummy goose yesterday. Or maybe they are abusing their power? 72 hours seems a bit steep either way. I would like a transcript of my “Inappropriate Language” if you don’t mind. I wouldn’t want to offend the ADULTS that play this game. I’m pretty sure that whatever was flagged as inappropriate, the player that it was said to had it coming.

72 hours is the norm for a first offense, it gets longer with each offense after that.
Apparently you did offend someone as they reported it, and support agreed after reviewing it. As to that last sentence, there is your problem right there, no one “had it coming”, if you cannot be civil to other players, it’s best to not say anything at all as you have just found out.

Your first suspension will always be 72 hours. that is the minimum. Nobody had faul language coming, if another player misbehaves, you simply report him/her and if you want to block. It is not good to answer bad things with bad things.

So bottom line. You had a warning when you agreed to the user agreement (and agreed to keep your tone civilised). You could have given the bad person your treatment but instead you decided to ask for it yourself.

I hope you learn from it. You got 72 hours to think bout it.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

72 hours is the norm for a first offense, it gets longer with each offense after that.
Apparently you did offend someone as they reported it, and support agreed after reviewing it. As to that last sentence, there is your problem right there, no one “had it coming”, if you cannot be civil to other players, it’s best to not say anything at all as you have just found out.

No, some people have it coming. If you don’t believe that you live in the fantasy land that you are playing your toon in. Disrespect is returned with disrespect. Civility is a relative term. If ask a question and get disrespectful answers back, you had better believe they will get the same treatment. Whatever though, It doesn’t really matter anyway since the banhammer holder wanted to flex their muscles. 72 hours is just stupid for something like this. 24 hours is sufficient.

Well, looks like you had that 72 hour ban coming! Don’t believe that you live in the fantasy land where you get to type all the naughty words you like without consequences. It doesn’t sound like 72 hours is going to prevent you from acting just the same when you come back, so I’m not sure how 24 hours would be “sufficient”.

swilkers.5938:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

72 hours is the norm for a first offense, it gets longer with each offense after that.
Apparently you did offend someone as they reported it, and support agreed after reviewing it. As to that last sentence, there is your problem right there, no one “had it coming”, if you cannot be civil to other players, it’s best to not say anything at all as you have just found out.

No, some people have it coming. If you don’t believe that you live in the fantasy land that you are playing your toon in. Disrespect is returned with disrespect. Civility is a relative term. If ask a question and get disrespectful answers back, you had better believe they will get the same treatment. Whatever though, It doesn’t really matter anyway since the banhammer holder wanted to flex their muscles. 72 hours is just stupid for something like this. 24 hours is sufficient.

And thats the behaviour we (the mayority of the community and Arenanet) doesn’t want. I know some games are governed that way, but GW2 has indeed a zero tolerance policy. You can try to go against it (and get longer suspensions in the future), or just give them the treatment you just got in the future. The reason it is 72 hours is that it starts at the moment the suspensionb is given, some people dont play for 2-3 days or longer and dont even notice the ban.

swilkers.5938:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

72 hours is the norm for a first offense, it gets longer with each offense after that.
Apparently you did offend someone as they reported it, and support agreed after reviewing it. As to that last sentence, there is your problem right there, no one “had it coming”, if you cannot be civil to other players, it’s best to not say anything at all as you have just found out.

No, some people have it coming. If you don’t believe that you live in the fantasy land that you are playing your toon in. Disrespect is returned with disrespect. Civility is a relative term. If ask a question and get disrespectful answers back, you had better believe they will get the same treatment. Whatever though, It doesn’t really matter anyway since the banhammer holder wanted to flex their muscles. 72 hours is just stupid for something like this. 24 hours is sufficient.

Read some of the other threads here. There was just another player who thought the same as you. That player no longer has an account as his account was permanently banned simply because he was not able to control what he said. You seem to be heading down that same path.

“Disrespect is returned with disrespect”

Followed by suspensions. With a lot of luck this will be your first and only suspension, because they only get longer from here on. It takes effort to type stuff out to someone. It takes a lot less effort to verbally say what you want to say. Be lazy and just use your voice. You will avoid suspensions.

swilkers.5938:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

72 hours is the norm for a first offense, it gets longer with each offense after that.
Apparently you did offend someone as they reported it, and support agreed after reviewing it. As to that last sentence, there is your problem right there, no one “had it coming”, if you cannot be civil to other players, it’s best to not say anything at all as you have just found out.

No, some people have it coming. If you don’t believe that you live in the fantasy land that you are playing your toon in. Disrespect is returned with disrespect. Civility is a relative term. If ask a question and get disrespectful answers back, you had better believe they will get the same treatment. Whatever though, It doesn’t really matter anyway since the banhammer holder wanted to flex their muscles. 72 hours is just stupid for something like this. 24 hours is sufficient.

Using your reasoning here, you believe that it is perfectly reasonable to cause a car wreck, and not get in trouble for it, because the wrecked car “had it coming” because they did something to you (cut you off, did a ‘brake check’, etc) and you did it back to them.

Unfortunately for you, the real world doesn’t work this way. And neither does Tyria. If someone is doing something that makes you want to swear at them, simply REPORT them, and ignore them. Let Anet “give them what they have coming” – and you don’t get into trouble over it. If you feel the simple options using the in-game report feature are too simple to explain the issue (maybe the person was also emoting gestures meant to provoke in some way, perhaps) the go to the support site (linked to at the top of the forum and main site) and use “Ask a question” to file a detailed report.

You are all reported for hurting my feelings.

swilkers.5938:

You are all reported for hurting my feelings.

No problem. Thing is we didn’t break any rules and you did. Ow and btw you might want to read this rule:

‘You may use the Guild Wars 2 reporting system within the Game to alert the company to in-game issues such as inappropriate behavior, offensive names, the perceived use of a “bot,” or other misconduct. You may not use the Guild Wars 2 reporting system to inflict harm upon or harass another player, to submit false reports, or to cause undue load on our servers. Individuals who abuse the reporting function will be investigated and will face possible account suspension or account termination.’

Thing is, this isn’t bout you think is ok to do or not but by what you agreed on when you started playing. You agreed with the user agreement and therefor also the rules of conduct. In this is stated that what did isn’t allowed. You also agreed to the Conduct breaches and outcomes. So you also agreed that you would get a 72 hour suspension for your first offense. The user agreement is a binding legal agreement so you are legally considered to be warned.

Often people claim that they didn’t read or understood the rules fully. This is not a valid excuse. However if you now with hindsight don’t agree with the rules, you can get out of the agreement. The only thing you have to di us uninstall the game and stop playing. From that moment onwards you are free of this user agreement. (unless you reinstall the game and log in again).

swilkers.5938:

Disrespect is returned with disrespect. Civility is a relative term. If ask a question and get disrespectful answers back, you had better believe they will get the same treatment.

That only works on crab boats and reality TV shows. Everywhere else it gets you fired or suspended from MMOs.