Because Blizzard Support simply doesn’t do “Insert Joe Pesci swearing from Home Alone here” about it, I’m going to leave a thread here and only hope that this thread will be read by as many people as possible before it’ll get moderated by Blizzard.
UPD1: Previous similar thread was removed and I was suspended on the forums for 2 days, reason for which was:
inappropriate: the community thinks it is offensive, abusive, or a violation of our code of conduct.
Somewhat paradoxically, Blizzard also mentioned this:
It’s important for us to provide a civil and friendly environment on the forums, where all players can feel comfortable sharing their thoughts with each other.
And I know, I’ve brought up my stalker’s character names in this post, it’s the only real reason to suspend it. I still find it somewhat both funny and sad, but that’s just me doing a small flail of arms high up in the air. So much for feeling comfortable to share my thoughts. Prev mod in my 2 years ago thread, at least just edited out the names I mentioned. So I’ll remove mentions for now and in case someone wants to know, I’ll find a way or a workaround to mention it safely.
Note: I’ve decided to include some proof to my story by providing screenshots through imgur website. Some screenshots are edited for a reason. I don’t want to bring into focus that I am a GM of a guild, it has nothing to do with that whatsoever. It’s an issue between me and a psycho. So please, respect that.
My twitter post: https://twitter.com/GrumpMushroom/status/1611731469042417672
My /r/wow fail: https://imgur.com/a/vaqQFTF
Story:
There is a person who resides on Argent Dawn, playing both alliance and horde faction. To put it mildly, they are delusional by treating RP & WoW literally as a tinder service, trying to find that “sacred second half that would dom them with care”. It all started with me, unfortunately…
In 2012/13/14, there was a small period of time when 3 people became internet friends, I’ll provide different nicknames for easier understanding: Nil, Mir and Lan. Playing WoW, roleplaying and just chatting, things were going good until Nil and Mir got into a conflict and called it quits, no longer talking to each other. Mir didn’t really want to let it all go after being ignored by Nil, so they created a “fake persona” just to continue having talks with Nil and asked Lan to be silent about it. Lan was stupid enough to give such a promise and when all things blew up and fakeness was revealed, Nil confronted Lan, asking if Lan knew about it all. After a positive reply, Lan was also put on ignore.
I was that Lan person.
In 2017, I was approached by Nil on a different character in WoW. Later on they told me who they are and I saw it as an opportunity to fix my wrong doings. I tried to be supportive, friendly, even caring, just to compensate at least somehow, for my mistake I’ve done many years prior to that. But apparently I’ve outdid myself.
So I had a few months of decent RP, time and talk with this person, going as far as to even live at their place for a little while during my vacation. Problems started right after I left. He really wanted a relationship and I remained completely ignorant to it, because I didn’t care nor want one. We tried to “find common grounds” and there was struggles but with each cringefest this person was pulling out, I grew more and more distant away from them. It’s around that time, same year, where I became a target of their stalking as they really didn’t want to move on and carry on with their life.
Now, I’m telling this course into history, to give context and reasoning of why this person acts the way he is. Jealous. Imagine you have a crush on someone and then you spot them with someone else. You’d feel upset, some will feel jealous. This person goes over unacceptable extents and the way he treats RP, it only makes it worse.
(E.g - in roleplay, actions of my characters do not portray my own thoughts/believes or opinions to a degree. If my character doesn’t like yours, it does not mean that I, as a person, don’t like the other narrator with whom I roleplay. But in this case, my stalker doesn’t see the difference. If my character likes someone, my stalker believes, that I too like that other roleplayer or am attracted to them, it’s just mindboggling)
They also used to write me emails and SMS, but I blocked all his addresses and phone number. I cannot provide any evidence about SMS, because I’ve changed my phones already and old one had stored all “blocked messages”. But I can provide e-mails, last one being dated as 2021.
RP comes and go, my characters live their lives, they meet others, they engage sometimes into relationships (if it makes sense to the story) and that’s where my problem kicks in: Stalker appears.
If I RP with someone or log on an alt, he’ll show up and throw pumpkins on my character, as a reminder that I’m being watched and he knows my alts, despite my API being disabled and I’m invisible on check-pvp website.
Example: https://imgur.com/a/XZOOaLF
Plant toys. Do anything to disrupt RP.
Example: https://imgur.com/a/ZRoaKzQ
If I go into an instanced area, he’ll begin to whisper people he knows I RP with or contact them a day or two later. (Thats just a small fragment, I cba sit and edit each and every screenie I have).
Example: https://imgur.com/a/bbYaRPf
Or go as far as to spam in trade and general chat about me and the other person.
Example: https://imgur.com/a/EEiIg2T
“Hurr durr, you just erp, shame on you!” - some may state. But ironically so, in one of the Blizzard replies in my tickets, a GM actually told me to either “Change locations in a non-predictable pattern or go to an instanced area.”
Here’s proof: https://imgur.com/a/9nKgRJN
Now it can sound ultimately as “Its your problem” but it isn’t. This person has a tendency to whisper people I RP with or RPed with. Either asking them questions that are just cringe or try and attempt to fish out information about me if I’m inactive in-game. This happened to my friends, to randoms that know me, and it just continues.
Another point to bring up is his alt-awareness. He -learns- any alt you may have, even if your API is disabled. He has two accounts so even if you ignore his main one, he can drop a bomb on you from his 2nd one. I roleplayed with someone? Went into Garrison? Other instanced area? Doesn’t matter what we did, my stalker already knows another person’s alts and will message them.
Now the worst part of it is that a friend of mine with whom we RP now and then, has fallen into my stalker’s radar and now he pulls out exact same sh*t on my friend. With exactly what I’ve written above.
I’ve made a lot of tickets to Blizzard throughout this year, with last one being in a queue for an answer for -weeks-. Literally, 1 month has gone by for me to receive multiple answers with a week or two of interval between each answer.
“We’re going to investigate this situation, it’s something we don’t allow and usually it comes to a tempa or perma ban” replied a GM and today my friend informs me how my stalker pulled his cringefest on him, by disrupting RP or leaving creepy messages like “I can stop if you promise a deep connection with me I want to feel.”
Blizzard, you have access to chat logs, you can see literally what anyone does, no matter how long ago it was. Stalker was reported by multiple people, not 1, not 2, it’s like 10 at the very least by now, throughout the years, and yet he just continues to happily play the game while being a completely anxious rtrd to others.
In case I need to make it clear, I don’t care if Blizzard don’t care or won’t do much. Or that “hurr durr you are a filthy erper you deserve this”. No one deserves such a treatment in the end. You spend your money and time to play the game you like, you violate ToS, you get banned/suspended, whatever, it’s a fair deal, no questions asked.
But to play the game and being crippled, by knowing that there’s this -one- person who watches your every move, ready to jump in and ruin your mood or mood of others, is a situation I got used to, which isn’t normal, but it’s normal for me, paradoxically.
I’d bite the bullet but when it spreads onto other people who now have to suffer the same, I just can’t be silent anymore. This post is written in one go, on full hatred and emotions, in case there’s some inconsistencies, grammar mistakes or things that doesn’t make sense and later on edited with screenshots since original thread was deleted by mods that don’t care.
Blizzard CS replies compilation: https://imgur.com/a/gIgR50X
<Here I mentioned my stalker's character names in my previous thread that was deleted, so it's been now removed here in advance. People who have seen me in-game on my other character with my stalker issue, will know his character names because I have them all out in my RP profile because I don't care at this point if I'll get banned or not, least I can do, is spread awareness because clearly, Blizzard just doesn't care, no matter how much they pretend they do. They don't.>
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
sure would be nice…