A buddy and I had an interesting situation last night. Generally our times to work together are after midnight PST and we were just starting our normal escapades. We are both running 12 boxes and were hitting up PoW.
After about an hour of working on (or getting worked on--depends on perception) The Enraged Warboar, We see a GM from Customer Service appear in front of us. He was visible for roughly 30 seconds and then disappeared.
Being the spooked mofo's we were, we were like WTF!? 15 minutes later as we were still pondering the situation in voice, he reappears. We greet him and in /say he asked us how it was going. We lamented what a tough mob it was and that we were recuperating from our previous butt-whipping.
Then he says, "I just want to confirm you are humans! We thought, holy shit we are busted (and we still may be--who knows?) but we scrolled through some of our toons saying warm greetings to our new found friend and asked for the Warboar to be nerfed in 2013. He simply said, "LoL, good enough, and good luck! Then poof he was gone! We freaked in voice for another hour trying to figure out how we called attention to ourselves, happy that we DIDN'T just waltz in and kill the warboar.
Now let me explain to you how we work. We sell NO loot rights, we just loot everything for alts or mute. We are NOT channel trolls. Our toons are not named Bibby, Bobby, Bubby, Bebby, Babby etc, in fact we have very normal names. Our toons are spread across 3 guilds. Quite frankly, we go out of our way NOT be noticed, but yet it seems like we were most likely reported! Probably by the only person in Drunder at that time in the span of a few seconds that it took us to take the banner and zone in.
Anyone had an experience like this? Do GM's just jump in and monitor random zones? I have only seen a GM twice in a zone in 7 years of raiding and both times he was petitioned in. If they suspected we were botting... Would they have banned our accounts immediately? Issued a warning to stop? Should we expect an email Tuesday saying in big bold letters... Botters Begone!?
Signed,
Curious in Norrath
After about an hour of working on (or getting worked on--depends on perception) The Enraged Warboar, We see a GM from Customer Service appear in front of us. He was visible for roughly 30 seconds and then disappeared.
Being the spooked mofo's we were, we were like WTF!? 15 minutes later as we were still pondering the situation in voice, he reappears. We greet him and in /say he asked us how it was going. We lamented what a tough mob it was and that we were recuperating from our previous butt-whipping.
Then he says, "I just want to confirm you are humans! We thought, holy shit we are busted (and we still may be--who knows?) but we scrolled through some of our toons saying warm greetings to our new found friend and asked for the Warboar to be nerfed in 2013. He simply said, "LoL, good enough, and good luck! Then poof he was gone! We freaked in voice for another hour trying to figure out how we called attention to ourselves, happy that we DIDN'T just waltz in and kill the warboar.
Now let me explain to you how we work. We sell NO loot rights, we just loot everything for alts or mute. We are NOT channel trolls. Our toons are not named Bibby, Bobby, Bubby, Bebby, Babby etc, in fact we have very normal names. Our toons are spread across 3 guilds. Quite frankly, we go out of our way NOT be noticed, but yet it seems like we were most likely reported! Probably by the only person in Drunder at that time in the span of a few seconds that it took us to take the banner and zone in.
Anyone had an experience like this? Do GM's just jump in and monitor random zones? I have only seen a GM twice in a zone in 7 years of raiding and both times he was petitioned in. If they suspected we were botting... Would they have banned our accounts immediately? Issued a warning to stop? Should we expect an email Tuesday saying in big bold letters... Botters Begone!?
Signed,
Curious in Norrath
