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Bashiok posted:
This is a reminder that we take threats made against other players, against our employees, and of self-harm extremely seriously.
We realize that there can be stressful and trying moments in the game or when interacting with others, but there is no acceptable time to go beyond the boundaries of the game and threaten others with real-life harm.
If someone is found to be making a real-life threat, we will report it to the authorities, which could result in real repercussions. If you see anyone making a real-life threat against you, themselves, or others, please report it immediately. To report threatening in-game chat, use the in-game petition system by clicking on the red question mark, or for forum posts, use the thumbs-down button and choose ?Real-Life Threats.?
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Y'know if someone is being a jerk to me I never let it get far enough to let him/her make a 'real life threat'. It's easy enough to ignore or switch to an alt for a while. I guess I'm lucky enough to never have had a serious harasser in any game I've played. :P
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And now the Blizz Team comes up with a Real Life Threat button to match their Real ID feature. Ain't the internet wonderful
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_Warlucky_ posted:
And now the Blizz Team comes up with a Real Life Threat button to match their Real ID feature. Ain't the internet wonderful
This does illustrate precisely why Real ID was and is a real bad idea.
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um ok, is this a new feature of the hard dungeons in Cat? People are threatening people in real life now when the PUG fails?
If its really become that much of a problme they have to say something, i think this might be an indication of a bigger issue that your stressing people out with a video game they are throwing out death threats!
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I know this 'threats' button has been in game for a good long while before Real ID. I think Blizzard just wants to remind people that it's there.
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Arunne posted:
um ok, is this a new feature of the hard dungeons in Cat? People are threatening people in real life now when the PUG fails?
If its really become that much of a problme they have to say something, i think this might be an indication of a bigger issue that your stressing people out with a video game they are throwing out death threats!
Hostility seems to be on the rise, people are frustrated with the game, frustrated with heroics, fighting each other over daily quest stuff,(especially in Tol Barad)etc... In short due to the games design/direction players are becoming aggressive, thuggish, greedy, rude pigs to cope.
I know I have been playing since pre-bc and I rarely have ever lost my temper, but lately I have found myself snapping at people, there is definitely a new climate in WoW.
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LOL! Real life threats in WoW make me laugh hard. If someone gives me attitude in-game I just tell them to shut the f**k up and if they decide not to I'll start making fun of them in whatever public channel I'm able to at the moment. While this is going on I'm telling my friends in Vent to get into the channel I'm in and give the person hell too. It's quite effective. 
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^^ and really childish :/ but such are most playing wow
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Quazimortal posted:
LOL! Real life threats in WoW make me laugh hard. If someone gives me attitude in-game I just tell them to shut the f**k up and if they decide not to I'll start making fun of them in whatever public channel I'm able to at the moment. While this is going on I'm telling my friends in Vent to get into the channel I'm in and give the person hell too. It's quite effective.
This is 80% of what is wrong with WoW . . .
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Quazimortal posted:
LOL! Real life threats in WoW make me laugh hard. If someone gives me attitude in-game I just tell them to shut the f**k up and if they decide not to I'll start making fun of them in whatever public channel I'm able to at the moment. While this is going on I'm telling my friends in Vent to get into the channel I'm in and give the person hell too. It's quite effective.
That's taking the high road, there.
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chipolteguy posted:
_Warlucky_ posted:
And now the Blizz Team comes up with a Real Life Threat button to match their Real ID feature. Ain't the internet wonderful
This does illustrate precisely why Real ID was and is a real bad idea.
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Well the threats are Blizzards fault, everyone getting angst off over the 5 man heroics.
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Yorptunes posted:
Well the threats are Blizzards fault, everyone getting angst off over the 5 man heroics.
I wouldn't be suprised if you are posting from a halfway house or the like 
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Spookysheep posted:
There simply are no words....
...agreed....
What's sad is I'm sure Blizzard employees have received threats in the last 6 years.
As have others in game.
What's sadder is the player who thinks they can because they're "anonymous" when they really aren't.
/shakes head
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Quazimortal posted:
LOL! Real life threats in WoW make me laugh hard. If someone gives me attitude in-game I just tell them to shut the f**k up and if they decide not to I'll start making fun of them in whatever public channel I'm able to at the moment. While this is going on I'm telling my friends in Vent to get into the channel I'm in and give the person hell too. It's quite effective.
Congrats - you won the special Olympics.
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Auenwing posted:
Spookysheep posted:
There simply are no words....
...agreed....
What's sad is I'm sure Blizzard employees have received threats in the last 6 years.
As have others in game.
What's sadder is the player who thinks they can because they're "anonymous" when they really aren't.
/shakes head
Two sides to that coin; I can easily see deserved anger at the Devs; people spend their hard earn money and time pouring literally 100's of hours on their toons, gearing them, tweaking their play style to get the most out of them etc... developing an emotional attachment to them. Then the devs come along make changes on a whim, most seemingly unnecessary with an underlying tone of its what is best/easiest for them screw you player adapt or GTFO!
That being said I can see some basement dwellers whom practically live in the game taking that anger a step to far and I am actually amazed none have yet at least none that we know of.
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 @ those of you who got all huffy at how I deal with dickwads in-game.
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Quazimortal posted:
@ those of you who got all huffy at how I deal with dickwads in-game.
One could say that you are said Dickwad in-game when you act like that.
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I'm gonna report all the kids who talk about my momma! They are making real life threats against her!
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Shiba-X posted:
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@ those of you who got all huffy at how I deal with dickwads in-game.
One could say that you are said Dickwad in-game when you act like that.
Perhaps if you ignore the glaring fact that I wasn't the one who would have started the encounter.
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Quazimortal posted:
Perhaps if you ignore the glaring fact that I wasn't the one who would have started the encounter.
You won the special Olympics not because you are yourself a "dickwad" or whatever, but because you let those guys affect you so much that you go out of your way, even calling friends, to annoy them and grief them back. When you do that, they have already won against you. What would be funny is if one of them actually reports you for breaking the same rules than they did and get you banned - that would be double-win for them, not only they drove you mad and made you waste your time, but they also made you waste your money by getting a ban from the game you pay for.
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More on topic, I guess there would be way less of such incidents if Blizzard invested some of that ton of money we give them to better monitor chat. There should be bots which scan chat at least in all major cities permanently, detect specific words, and immediately alert moderators when they are used. Any noob programmer could make such a filter which detects use of (configurable) word sequences like "kill you", "find you", "come get you", all the swear words and racist insults, etc... and the filter could run on a simple PC connected with a GM account, not affecting the server performance more than a normal connected client.
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Quazimortal posted:
Shiba-X posted:
Quazimortal posted:
@ those of you who got all huffy at how I deal with dickwads in-game.
One could say that you are said Dickwad in-game when you act like that.
Perhaps if you ignore the glaring fact that I wasn't the one who would have started the encounter.
When you do that:
- They look like an idiot.
- You look like a 9 yr old idiot.
- You use "dickwad" in a sentence and confirm any doubt.
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The_Korrigan posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Perhaps if you ignore the glaring fact that I wasn't the one who would have started the encounter.
You won the special Olympics not because you are yourself a "dickwad" or whatever, but because you let those guys affect you so much that you go out of your way, even calling friends, to annoy them and grief them back. When you do that, they have already won against you. What would be funny is if one of them actually reports you for breaking the same rules than they did and get you banned - that would be double-win for them, not only they drove you mad and made you waste your time, but they also made you waste your money by getting a ban from the game you pay for.
Obviously you don't understand exactly how it works. They aren't winning anything against me if I'm completely enjoying myself when I give people like that a bunch of crap. Also, you have to be a real big idiot to get your WoW account banned for not watching how you word yourself. You can give people all kinds of hell and not break rules doing it.
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Quazimortal posted:
LOL! Real life threats in WoW make me laugh hard. If someone gives me attitude in-game I just tell them to shut the f**k up and if they decide not to I'll start making fun of them in whatever public channel I'm able to at the moment. While this is going on I'm telling my friends in Vent to get into the channel I'm in and give the person hell too. It's quite effective.
Quite effective at doing what, exactly? I had someone try this once because I removed them from a raid, and I didn't say or do a thing about it, because quite frankly I didn't need to.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Quazimortal posted:
LOL! Real life threats in WoW make me laugh hard. If someone gives me attitude in-game I just tell them to shut the f**k up and if they decide not to I'll start making fun of them in whatever public channel I'm able to at the moment. While this is going on I'm telling my friends in Vent to get into the channel I'm in and give the person hell too. It's quite effective.
Quite effective at doing what, exactly? I had someone try this once because I removed them from a raid, and I didn't say or do a thing about it, because quite frankly I didn't need to.
It's a good thing your situation is exactly like the situation I was talking about then I guess. Oh wait, it isn't.
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I still don't understand the goal, but if it makes you happy, then perhaps that is goal met well enough!
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I do happen to get enjoyment out of tormenting the tormentors.
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