Dear WoW community, Developers, and Game Masters, hello.
This is Shado. I have come back to WoW after many years and play as a lvl 29 Twink to enjoy some BGs on my free time after work or school. Unfortunately I have come to encounter a highly toxic community currently seriously affecting the 20-29 BG bracket.
As I understand it, a free version of the game is available, with a level cap at 20, which places F2P players in the 20-29 BG bracket. A number of these players are not at all happy with having lvl 29s in their team as a lvl 29 is superior to a lvl 20 in various aspects.
They are seriously displeased and threatened by the presence of lvl 29s and have created a horrendously toxic environment. I can’t enter one BG without some lvl20s chastising me for playing as a lvl29 and telling me that it’s not fair for me to play as a lvl29.
Had it been limited to words and insults, I could totally live with this as there are also some very friendly and supportive players in the bracket, however the action of some of these 20s are not limited to words as they have started to abuse and exploit the “Report-AFK” system.
Meant to have actual AFK players eventually forced out of a BG, these players have found that multiple coordinated reports result in the reported player being instantly kicked from the battleground without the 1 minute timer debuff which kicks the player if the player doesn’t take any action during that time.
They have done this to the degree I get kicked from more than half the BGs I enter before I can participate in any of the action.
Approximately 10 seconds after 2 minute preparation time elapses and the gates of the BG open, I get instantly teleported out of the BG and receive the 15 minute deserted debuff.
I have recently spoken to an in-Game guide player who advised me to gather proof of this phenomenon and report it, so I have been ScreenRecording BGs from which I am insta-kicked.
I have uploaded these screen recordings to youtube, and decided to add their links to this complaint as I believe it will unequivocally prove the abusing and exploiting of the reporting system.
I will keep playing in the 20-29 bracket as a 29 and will not allow people who don’t even pay for the game to dictate to me or other fellow 29s how we ought to be playing the game. We are not breaking any Blizzard rules, and we should not be persecuted for how we like to play.
I am hoping these players will be held accountable, and that some technical fix to this reporting system will be implemented as I believe Blizzard would not want their customers to be persecuted and made their game time turned to hell by resentful and toxic groups of players.
Thank you for reading through this long complaint, and please find attached 7 different links to 7 short screen recordings proving this phenomenon is ocurring.