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New Vanguard

3 months ago

Reporting Griefers

very simple issue, EA_Aljo. Last year I almost got banned for reporting a player in the forums with his gamertag for violating TOS of forum. This year same player I blocked, came across on the other...

Community Manager

3 months ago

Hey there. We don't ban people for reporting other players. We'll let you know about the no naming and shaming rule, but unless you do it a bunch of times, it's not something we action accounts for.

If you can get a video and send me a private message, I'll pass it on, but we don't normally ban people for griefing. I'd love to see that happen, but it would also require someone reviewing videos non-stop. Most likely, many of which wouldn't even be actual greifing situations. What we need to do is have better anti-griefing features to handle those players. Unfortunately, the best I can recommend is that when it comes to drop-ins, only play with clubs instead of with random players in the outdoor rink.

MostlyHubris
New Adventurer
3 months ago
I think bringing back position score and team play score would help. Back in the day if a guy went offsides intentionally a bunch of times or started shooting on his own net, he'd get kicked.
A majority vote kick seems to work fine in every other game, although I understand people would just kick the human goalie as soon as they got in the game every time. Not really sure what the answer is, but I don't think you can put a mode in the game and then tell people not to play it because it's always going to be a lawless wasteland. Lol. One player can ruin the whole game for 11 other people who are completely defenseless, and as soon as they leave he can queue up and do it again. It's a troll's paradise.
- EA_Aljo
  Community Manager
  3 months ago
  As far as I know, the same anti-griefing measures are still in game. I'm looking into that. Regardless, I'd love to see a better way to handle these players since it's still really easy to troll.
  
  I'm not saying don't play that mode. I'm just saying your chances of getting a better experience are when you play club games as a drop-in player. I wish we had a filter that would let you only join those games. A vote kick is definitely a tricky one to get perfect. Which, we'd need to do otherwise people would be getting unfairly kicked.
  - MostlyHubris
    New Adventurer
    3 months ago
    Oh I absolutely agree. Safe to say after 20 years of online gaming, the trolls will just use the anti-troll measures to troll more. It's a slippery slope that normal people have to think really hard about. Sad state of affairs.
    A filter for club games only would be all right, as easy as changing the filter from YES/NO to CLUB/CASUAL/ALL or something.