Blizzard supports ninja looters

#0 - March 18, 2009, 2:34 a.m.
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Not a QQ post, just an informational thread

So the other night I missed my 25 OS guild run (dkp system), so I pugged a group. After getting the entire loot ninja by the master loot ([removed]), including my tier gloves, I GM ticketed a report, which I knew would result in nothing. Anyway, so today I am spamming trade his name and that he is a ninja looter and he messages me. He begs me to stop using his name and he admits to ninjaing everything, and he offers me to join up with him and he will "ninja me" my gear.

Now I understand ninja looting is "he said she said," but here we have someone openly admitting he stole all the gear and admiting that he is going to do it again. What would I get if I reported this and and had them look at the whispers? Just another randomly generated macro about how they cannot do anything about it. Guess what, you can do something about it. Take his gear away.

From blizzards official stance: "The reason for this is primarily due to the fact that we feel there are several safe guards in the game to prevent successful ninja looting." Who the hell are you kidding? There are NO safe guards at all. Master loot=one person ninjas all gear. Group Loot=Everyone tries to ninja gear. A safe guard would be knowing there are punishments handing out for this behavior

How hard is to look at a raid, see that all the gear went to one person and 24 other raid members yelling "NINJA" in all caps. Blizz detectives can't crack the case.

In before blizzard response saying it's to complex to come to the conclussion if someone is a ninja even though he admits at and says he will do it again.

Edit* - forgot to mention it's against the rules to smear his name. So yes, blizzard actually DOES suppoort ninja looters.
#32 - March 18, 2009, 3:22 a.m.
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How hard is to look at a raid, see that all the gear went to one person and 24 other raid members yelling "NINJA" in all caps. Blizz detectives can't crack the case.


I'm sorry, Inhell, but if you allowed this person to be master looter/raid leader you allowed them to make decisions on your behalf. It doesn't matter if all of the items went to that person or someone else, we have enough safe guards in place for people to decide who gets what loot fairly. I can only advise you to group with people you can trust.
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Edit* - forgot to mention it's against the rules to smear his name. So yes, blizzard actually DOES suppoort ninja looters.


We don't recognize "ninja looting" or looting out of turn. We do prohibit defamation and harassment of other players.

If you feel other methods of looting should be introduced you'll want to post in our Suggestion Forums. That forum is reviewed by our Community Managers and Developers and they will be able to review your request there.