Something Fishy Going on in AB

[Jdoring]

Ok so i got into an AB... and there were 15 Orc Warlocks in the BG with the same name except like they were numbered... and when i started asking questions about it i got reported AFK and ultimately booted from the match... whats going on here is there something i dont know about? is there something i shouldnt know about?

 

[chancho1010]

I also saw them, and just today I joined a game, helped a pally and a warlock cap mine and got the "inactive" debuff and got booted from the game. What's up with that? ( the game had only been going for 2 minutes and I was defending ).

 

[Jdoring]

Welllll if i get booted again i have no problem reporting whatever is going on... sooo if you are reading this then stop reporting me AFK when im not AFK thankyou very much!

 

[Nickolas]

Just accept the cult of orc warlocks.

 

[Jdoring]

i would if i didnt get booted... hahaha

 

[Purj]

Is that why AB has said between <1min - 5min today? I was all excited, but I guess if 15 locks are queuein together, I'd never get in.

 

[Jdoring]

yea... i mean im sure you could get in and you would just lose cuz the bots are just hiding (i found them to stay in a few matches then the bots were moved so i gave up) but you would get some honor if you need it that bad....

 

[Jdoring]

Or just report him for it... yea i think i might just do that!

 

[notoriousthf]

They're gaining achievements. The numbered warlocks were mules achieving the other side's goals. Xar got a bunch of AB achievements in one day, probably doing the same thing.

 

[Jdoring]

right.. alright well i guess i wont do it.. i would have been more inclined not to report if i didnt get booted and get the deserter buff like 3 or 4 times... oh well i like WSG better anyways

 

[Sharper]

I had the same thing happen over the weekend: TestBotOne, TestBotTwo, etc. Looks like some minor programming error that resulted in test bots somehow not being excluded from the queue system. I saw the locks' minions in the building at the Farm, too.



Funny, tho, sucks to get reported AFK during that and missing out on a few free honor points. I guess if you get reported AFK you can retaliate by reporting everyone else in the bg...



A far bigger problem is running into a Horde premade that is almost certainly using Vent and getting utterly destroyed to the point where the whole Ally team can't get out of the starting-base GY.



Communication is key in AB and Vent is a monstrous advantage. When used by a team that already has their roles down and works together well, it is at the same time a beautiful and ugly thing.



The REAL "fishy" thing in AB, imo, is three-minute queues and games shutting down for lack of players. Odd that Blizz has the games starting with too few players and such short queues. Are there three games going on at the same time, each with 10 total players? I think there's a little queue bug in there.

 

[Jdoring]

I had the same thing happen over the weekend: TestBotOne, TestBotTwo, etc. Looks like some minor programming error that resulted in test bots somehow not being excluded from the queue system. I saw the locks' minions in the building at the Farm, too.



Funny, tho, sucks to get reported AFK during that and missing out on a few free honor points. I guess if you get reported AFK you can retaliate by reporting everyone else in the bg...

True that.. :/

 

[Lawlpurge]

Lol. Wasn't Secclusion that big achievement whore with like 3,000 points or something? This is super lame if he's rigging all this just to farm some more achieves.

 

[Jdoring]

Lol. Wasn't Secclusion that big achievement whore with like 3,000 points or something? This is super lame if he's rigging all this just to farm some more achieves.

Seriously...

 

[Jdoring]

Honestly i feel like this whole AB weekend thing messed up the bracket a little... now people are queuing for AB and WSG both and neither are getting consistent queues to pop and the AB's end after 5 min because there arent enough people.. people should start just queueing WSG again because 1. it wasnt that bad and 2. we dont have a large enough pool of twinks in this bracket to consistently do both...

 

[Vincent]

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Hahaha what a geek, new low

 

[Grabco]

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Hahaha what a geek, new low

In the past i've paid to faction change and get gear for just +3 stam and a little str. I guess you could get 14 trial accounts activated or pay for 14 accounts to get achievments in AB and it would kinda be the same thing. It's not really a new low it's just a way of twinking and achievment twinks actually have quite a big following. Even I don't mind getting certain achievments. I guess there is a certain stigma attached to finding a way around the system to get these artificially or not get them legitimately but whatever floats your boat. I would argue that getting "we had it all along, *cough*" in a real game is so much more fun than rigging the system.

 

[notoriousthf]

In the end, though, they didn't get those achievements fairly. It's a disgrace.

 

[Vincent]

I guess pay for 14 accounts to get achievments in AB is a reasonable thing to do.

Well that says a little about you dont you think?



faction changing to get gear is one thing since it still gives you an advantage pvp-wise (which 19's are all about, otherwise you can make a lvl 1). But plan all that shit and ruin those games for the rest of the players just so that you could get some achievements which would still be possible to get in an honest way, thats just selfish and pathetic. No respect what so ever for whoever did that, also ruined the status of their achievement-points when you've cheated your way to it.

 

[Kore nametooshort]

This way when you guys get your achievements you can take the moral high ground.