What a title huh?
So before I go into the matter, about me:
- I have had an account of 10 years back, i started back when i was a teen (15-16), I still have this account to this day, but its empty now since I moved my charcters out of it for their safety. Details bellow.
- I was a little arrogant- admitedly, quite annoying kid, as everyone else.
- Got a few strikes on my account- some rightfuly others not so , and others absolutely question them to this day (getting a penalty for saying “shut up” ?).
- This month my account got falsely flagged which resulted to me appealing it multiple times, just to find out it was falsely flagged indeed which resulted in me getting my perma ban revoked. So far so good.
- I decided the best decision would be to move my toons to a new account- as I did.
Just to be safe. - Before I move on to the next part, here are some objective facts to remember on how penalties work:
- Penalties increase in severity but they never diminish, even if a lot of time has passed you will still be judged harshly if you had multiple strikes even if its 4 years ago.
- The only thing that resets is the “Warning” window.
- The “Warning” window can go to waste for false reports. Meaning you might or you might not have an extra chance.
- No matter if you were rightfuly or wrongfuly banned. You might or not have to wait days to get unbanned.
- Bans might be a cash-grab. Why? Because you can keep your collections in case you get perma’d but you have to pay for a new expansion and a new subscription plan.
So what happened after I got perma- banned and unbanned?
As i said above- i had too many strikes on my account from back when I was a teen, didnt want to risk it so I made a new account, and moved my 2 main characters there the moment I got unbanned.
I started playing, I did a nice 5 day run getting real sweaty in PvP, avoiding to use chat at all costs and when I said something it wouldnt even be mildly offensive.
I wake up today, I log in and 5 minutes in without me even saying anything, just pvping, i get a Warning for behaviour again.
First of all 2 things need to change:
People who report you need to file in detail what the player does and this file needs to go to the player as well as the GMs. Why ? because most of the cases GMs dont provide the detailed reason for your report and penalties. This will also help with fighting back and penalise people who falsely report.
Ban severity for Average Joes.: Look guys if we put it on a scale there 3 types of bad actors in WoW:
Average Joes, who dont even swear but are a little rude or catch attitude from time to time.
Racist Andies, who also swear and are absolute pain.
Exploiters, griefters, boosters, gold for cash sellers etc. you get the drift.
Being a little rude is probably the lowest crime someone can ever do if we put it on the scale.
This should NEVER get you perma banned.
Debatably even banned but a silence is all this person needs to be dealt with.
Ban the racists permanently I dont even care.
Ban the griefters, boosters, exploiters permanently. Thats good for the game quite directly.
But for the love of God and everything holy
Average Andies shouldnt shake when they simply attempt to speak their mind.
Another solution would be since we all got accounts from 10 years ago, and people mature, so instead of holding them to the same regard maybe make penalties severity to diminish after a few months.
Example: You occasionally catch attitude - you get multiple penalties times and times again , your ban severity becomes from 1 month to 3 months to 6 months ban (For the sake of example), okay but you were a good boy, you learned your lesson, for 3 months you havent had any accidents until you do, but instead of being perma banned , you get a 1 month ban again.
Am I making sense ?
