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Warzone AFK exploiters

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Warzone AFK exploiters

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Foenixz
12.26.2011 , 05:37 PM | #41
Quote: Originally Posted by Dustyboy View Post
Starting to see multiple people afk in warzones. Seems like this issue should have been anticipated. What does bioware plan to do about it? With only 8 ppl in a match, 1 or 2 afkers is a game breaker.
I have been reporting them through /bug and gotten a quick response. Less than an hour
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LegoIas
12.26.2011 , 05:48 PM | #42
Quote: Originally Posted by Powercow View Post
Yeah, the higher-ups probably forced the date by the 20th to make the stockholders happy (goes into this quarter, next quarter has Mass Effect 3 to make those numbers crazy good) and to get in on the Christmas sales.

But yeah, I know there's still a couple people working at Bioware (some of my GM tickets have been answered) somewhere, so hopefully they've been collecting metrics so when they come back tuesday they'll have a big pile of information and a good idea what problems are more important.
Because selling a product to the masses the week of Christmas is a bad idea.

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ComplexCrew
12.26.2011 , 05:53 PM | #43
Perma-ban Shalum on Tyranuss Academy server. A smuggler who is playing game just staying in stealth mode in the corners and laugh at other people while they die. And his argument is "Blame BioWare for not fixing this not me". If only i could see him even via a camera i would force choke him immediately and fall to the dark side. I don't care about the dark and light side anymore i just want to kill him, like in RL. Nope, i don't care about the prison time anymore either.
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Eroiqua
12.26.2011 , 05:58 PM | #44
Don't let the children get you banned, or worse, for making RL threats.

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Powercow
12.26.2011 , 06:05 PM | #45
Quote: Originally Posted by LegoIas View Post
Because selling a product to the masses the week of Christmas is a bad idea.
No, it's actually a pretty good idea from a business sense.

Were you being sarcastic and having trouble reading my post, or are you not all that business savvy?

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Jakev-
12.26.2011 , 06:09 PM | #46
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SoupyLogs
12.26.2011 , 06:18 PM | #47
Quote: Originally Posted by DigitalDreamz View Post
^^ AFKs in warzones. Defending afkers.
I defend peoples' right to do what they want with their subscription.

You getting mad about it is like getting mad over an old lady doing 30 in a 65, you're not going to change her ways by throwing a tantrum over it.
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Powercow
12.26.2011 , 06:21 PM | #48
Quote: Originally Posted by SoupyLogs View Post
I defend peoples' right to do what they want with their subscription.

You getting mad about it is like getting mad over an old lady doing 30 in a 65, you're not going to change her ways by throwing a tantrum over it.
And they can do whatever the heck they want -- until it interferes with other people and their ability to play.

Also, you can get ticketed for going 30 in a 65 since it's a traffic hazard.

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SoupyLogs
12.26.2011 , 06:28 PM | #49
Quote: Originally Posted by Powercow View Post
And they can do whatever the heck they want -- until it interferes with other people and their ability to play.

Also, you can get ticketed for going 30 in a 65 since it's a traffic hazard.
AFKers have been in every single MMO ever made, they can't be stopped no matter how much belly aching you do.

Look, I understand where you people are coming from. I used to be one of those ban afker types until I realized that even if you fix this way to AFK, they'll find another. I also realized it really didn't bother me as much as I forced myself to think it did.

You're not going to win every warzone, AFKers or no AFKers. Learn to accept that fact and I promise you're ability to play won't be as affected as you think it is.
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Powercow
12.26.2011 , 06:39 PM | #50
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AFKers have been in every single MMO ever made, they can't be stopped no matter how much belly aching you do.
WoW actually did a pretty good job (eventually) dealing with them. Believe it or not, the solution to AFKers is pretty straightforward, it just requires a few more hands to handle the cases, which costs money and time to hire and train new people (or shuffle people around), come up with procedures on how to deal with cases, and make a more simplified way to report people (which involves more coding, testing, etc.)
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You're not going to win every warzone, AFKers or no AFKers. Learn to accept that fact and I promise you're ability to play won't be as affected as you think it is.
Actually, I do win most warzones (as Republic, no less!), and I certainly don't mind the ones I lose when it's a fair game. When it's a close loss and we have these parasites, it's very irritating.

So yeah, you can accept these leeches and let this game's PvP become unplayable, or you can actually try to get Bioware to spend some time fixing it.