Realms Cross faction gameplay sabotage

[loketran]

Hello all,

I would like to suggest updating the player's rule of conduct. Earlier today, I was in an RDF group with members of the Alliance while being the only Horde player in the group. I was kicked out of the group for being simply that, the only horde. 1 member even suggested to kick me right before the last boss. you dm me for screenshot proof as I am not allowed to publicly post players on the forum but this type of player behavior is toxic to our community.

[LezChap1]

On the one hand, I think this would be a good rule change. There's a reason ya'll made leveling RDFs cross-faction, and players abusing the vote-kick game mechanics like this runs counter to that.

On the other...unless they talk about it openly in chat before hand, this will be another case of "can you actually prove it?"...nothing stops them from remaining silent/using whispers and doing it anyways.

edit: I want to suggest a punishment for when this actually can be proven and punished: 24 hour rdf-deserter debuff that only counts when you're online (can't log off for a day and be back to normal).

[OhieMitzen]

Yeah, some people are really into the faction vs faction, and will be dicks about it given the chance. If it's provable that people are voted out of RDF groups out of spite for their chosen faction, it should be punishable offence. Although punishing may be hard to do (who voted yes, who voted no?), something needs to be done to prevent abusers from abusing.

There's a dilemma with any rule made against it would be hard to reinforce.

[Shred]

I don't see the issue here. A group doesn't want you, they kick you out. It doesn't matter what the reason is.

[OhieMitzen]

I don't see the issue here. A group doesn't want you, they kick you out. It doesn't matter what the reason is.

If it was valid reason sure. If it's something stupid like being from different faction, I don't see how this should fly. It would end up making cross-faction RDF a risk to join, thus people would avoid it. RDF queues would be long once again, rather counter intuitive. I don't think Warmane's plan with enabling cross-faction RDF was for players to use it as a platform for any kind of discrimination.
If players are allowed to keep doing this, they'll keep doing that for their own benefit. Few vocal players may be going "kick the [cross-faction] player" while others follow blinded by their own greed for precious loot.

[Obnoxious]

I'd see an issue if this was opt-in. As in, if you opt-in to get queued cross-faction you don't get to then refuse playing with them. But as it isn't something you can turn off to stick with your own faction if that's what you want, you can't really blame people. In the end of the day, it's 3 or 4 out of 5 not wanting someone there, even if for a reason you'd disagree with. Should they be forced to play with someone they don't want to and had no choice over? If the answer is yes, that should apply to probably 9999 out of 10000 cases people get kicked, including being a weak specialization, being badly gear, underperforming, dying too often, and so on.