Question of the Week: What Happens When You Petition Other Players? April 14, 2008
Posted by Kendricke in Question of the Week.4 comments
It happens all the time. You come across a pain-in-the-neck player who’s spamming for gold in your LFG channel, or you find yourself the target of a feign-training griefer, or you just can’t stand the name of the guy who’s waltzing around spouting profane statements about his favorite anatomical puns.
So you file an in-game petition. Then what?
Most of the time, you hear nothing. You hear nothing at all, actually. If the player was warned, you don’t know. If the player was suspended, you won’t find out. If your petition was blithely ignored, you’re just as much in the dark.
There’s plenty of reasons why game studios are generally mum on the subject of “what happened to your petition against so-and-so”. However, let’s assume for a moment that there is no such legal ramifications. For the purposes of this discussion, assume there’s no liability issues at stake here.
At Clockwork Gamer, we want to know what you think this week:
Do you think CSRs should tell you how they handled your petitions against other players?