Sure they can. If a report is sent in, and enough people indicate it’s the same player, an anet guy can go into game, without tags, and monitor the player … They’d know exactly where they were on map, etc … There were incidents of this happening to one guild, many many players put in reports which wound up in accounts getting banned. Whether those reports were just a mass trolling or not is neither here nor there. Anet does take action, although to be fair to them they can only go by what they’re fed. And I have heard the accounts that got banned were monitored in-game by untagged anet folks for a week or so.
I would personally send in reports and images and let anet decide what to do … Enough people indicating the same player and I would suspect action would be taken by an untagged anet guy at least checking it out.
I find this hard to believe, this is why … Anet would not have come on and said to anyone “hey thanks for putting in all those reports, we logged in tagless and followed said person around for a week and then decided to ban them”.
I think someones blowing smoke up your bum, or they have an unfounded opinion of what happened and ppl ate it up like cake.
Typically A gaming company would announce something along the lines of “we have procedures in place to track the individual(s) under suspicion. If they are found to be exploiting the game in a way that is unintended, we will take action that could result in suspension(s), and or permanant ban(s) dependant on the sevarity of the situation”.
It would also typically be posted somewhere for all to read (such as the forum or main paige of their webby) as this is meant to prevent it from happening before it happens. In the case of actual bans, its very rare a company will tell you the process they used, once people know how they track certain things, then someone will find a way to avoid it.
I could be wrong but I’m finding your post hard to swallow.
But none the less its still a pretty crappy thing to do.
Any company getting multiple reports about a single user will investigate. Because they designed the game/software it’s fast and efficient to locate the person complained,about in game to investigate. Other mmos I’ve played I’ve had a gm magically appear beside me in game to resolve a petition, etc. because they have the technology to track and trace.
I’m suggesting if this kind of griefing is going on (and face it, that’s what it is) they have the ability to monitor and subsequently ban. Enough complaints about one user and they have the documentation to start determining a course of action.
Again, let anet decide how to handle it. Submit your reports and let them deal with it from there. But DO submit the reports.
I don’t deny it happens, I also don’t deny that Anet should take action and players should definately report it.
Don’t believe everything you read/hear from random players. Gaming companies have procedures just like every other business in the world, they tend not to discuss these procedures with consumers for obvious reasons.
So I hope actions were taken, but don’t hold your breath as I said in my original post its next to impossible to prove.
Example #1 … I’m a spy … does that make it true and should I be banned ?
Example #2 … I’m going to report you daily for a month (not really) for being a spy, should you be banned ?
You gave a fictional story to backup your other post, I call it fictional because what you posted would not have happened. Giving someone a reason to investigate and proving fault is two completely different things. Gaming companies reserve the right to ban whomever whenever, but thats not smart business.
Example #3 … If I sit at the portal area for the next week while I watch some TV, does that make me a spy ?
I hope your seeing how impossible it is to determine if someone is indeed spying, my gf also has an account, she plays on a different server (which has been an enemy server) so should one of us be banned do to IP ?
I could go on but I’m hoping you get the point.
