GM threatens physical violence(not joke)

#0 - July 26, 2007, 1:36 a.m.
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I'd like to know if this is reportable. An officer in my guild(on another char), has recently informed me that he and his wife are quitting the guild because they heard in officer chat that our GM was seriously speaking about finding me(GM lives in the same state as me) and doing a good deal of physical violence. Now, I'm not trolling or making a joke, I'm being completely serious. I didn't believe the officer but I know the guy is way to old and mature to joke around with anything even remotely similar to this. He just told me that a few weeks ago the GM was talking about it in officer chat when he was the only officer online. I know GM's don't enforce guild chat. But I know our GM works heavily in the IT field with some serious connections(which the GM has proven before). Of course I can just leave the guild and it would likely be over. I've had serious disagreements with the GM before and there was just a lot of drama between us.

I of course presume that the game takes serious strides to conceal stuff like a persons IP address or the like but hell you never know when someone is hell bent on something.

At any rate, I would like to hear from a GM on what can be done or what I should do. Again this all sounded pretty laughable when I first heard this but I've known the officer and his wife for quite a while now and this guy is not the type to just make up something as laughable as this and I've made sure he's absolutely honest with all this.

Thanks for your time.
#13 - July 26, 2007, 2:11 a.m.
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Q u o t e:
By GM you mean Guild Master. I just want to clarify that for the people reading.

You can report any player using the in-game ticket system. Here is a link to the harassment policy:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01719p


Corroborated for Credence.

I assure you that they would not be able to track anyone down through our systems but it is always good to report such threats.

Please have the person who was threatened submit a petition reporting the name of the person and approximate time this happened and one of our Game Masters will look into your report and take the appropriate actions, Itsnoteasy.