Quote Originally Posted by Yahtzee View Post
Not only that, people actually go out of their way to attack you (Verbally, not referring to PvP). I've had people just sit in a battleground and do nothing other than insult and call me down to the dirt. I used to get it here-and-there back in Wrath, but it has gotten so much worse in Cataclysm.

It really ruins the experience at times. For example, last week I was doing 5v5's (I quad-box with a separate person healing me) and knocked out 3 of the opposing teams members while still having everyone alive. The last two people alive were two rogues, and they would stealth around the map and grab the shadow sights and instantly restealth. Even if I got to knock them out of stealth, they would just cloak and vanish, so it was a cat and mouse game the entire time. Other members of their team would create characters on my server with offensive names and whisper obscenities to me, all the while saying they weren't going to let me win because I was boxing.

It was clear that what they were doing was harassment, so we opened a GM ticket and explained the situation. The GM watched the rest of the match (20-25 minutes worth) and seen the vulgar whispers I was getting but did nothing to intervene in the match, I was actually in awe. This team had successfully wasted 45 minutes of my night because they were vehemently opposed to my multi-boxing.

What really bothers me is.. the next day we opened another GM ticket for clarification of the situation and we were told they are in fact allowed to intervene in arena matches under those circumstances.
I'd be very inclined to post their comments (screen shots) along with the GM responses that this is a valid tactic in World of Warcraft.
Make a post on a few sites, like MMO-Champion... to the effect, does Blizzard really want this in their game?

While a GM might think nothing is wrong with it, I can pretty much guarantee the higher ups in Blizzard don't want this kind of negative publicity associated with their game.

If it's okay now, it probably won't be okay in the future if you post it a bit, so potential customers don't want to play in an environment where this is explicitly allowed.

If it is okay for five players to do this to a boxer, it's also okay for five players to do this to another five players... so post this as a valid tactic on arena junkies.