The fantasy MMORPG Guild Wars 2 has, like almost every online game, problems with fraudsters and cheaters. The developers at ArenaNet sometimes handle this a bit differently.
Cheaters are a problem for many online games as they violate the players’ sense of fairness and make them feel: The honest player is the fool. Therefore, all developers strive to convey to players: We take the problem very seriously and are addressing it.
At ArenaNet, there was a thread in the official forum where players complained about a particularly persistent cheater and presented video evidence of his actions. The security chief of ArenaNet, Chris Cleary, intervened. But instead of just saying: “The video evidence has convinced us, we have banned the cheater,” he also provided his own video evidence: The last minute in the life of this account.
Guild Wars has previously resorted to such methods to impressively remove villains from its game. Here are pictures from Guild Wars 1.
