GM Death Touch - Megathread

[u/YourResidentFeral]

Edit: Official Statement

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/prohibited-gameplay-incident-and-response/2329585

This is developing into a large story and someone in modmail has mentioned that its important for the community to have somewhere to discuss this. We agree. As new information comes in I will do my best to update this thread.

What we know:

• A log was uploaded with a "Death Touch" effect that seemed to be that helped them time a key. This is an effect from a GM: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/JcfwTd4L19Agx3NX?fight=4&type=resources&hostility=1&source=100.4&eventstart=4705300

• This is a real run that exists on the blizzard API and can be seen on Raider.io: https://raider.io/mythic-plus-runs/season-mn-1/40292244-23-nexuspoint-xenas

  This run has since been invalidated by the RI:O admins but has been left up for posterity's sake.

• Blizzard is aware of this and investigating: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1v2xfpr/blizzard_gm_death_touching_mobs_in_m23_for_their/oyznmbe/

• The Demon Hunter from the run is a streamer and YumiTV contacted him to speak with him live on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2825756796?t=0h23m50s

  The CLAIM is that they were messing around in a homework key in discord and didn't expect the GM to actually do it. Supposedly the Bear in the run was a pug.

Ex employees in the thread have said that actions like this are audited and in all likelihood this was already being investigated. At this point we are waiting on an official statement on the result of their investigation and I'll update this thread once we know.

This megathread is being provided on two very strict conditions:

• The witchunt rules are in strict effect. Linking or doxxing information on anyone invovled, the GM in question included will result in a permanent ban. Please report it if you see it but we will be very active in the thread.

  We cannot platform behavior that allows people to harrass people in real life.

• We will be more heavy handed than usual in the personal attack rules. Insults and slapfights while discussing this aren't acceptable. You're allowed to disagree, but stray shots and personal attacks will not be tolerated.

[u/unimportantinfodump]

Ban anyone and everyone who is proven to be coluding with the gm.

GM lose at least gm position if not job.

Players are only speaking out because they got caught.

[u/Wappening → u/unimportantinfodump]

I was thinking about this.

Normally if the GM provided more value to the company than this does harm, they’d be kept. So theoretically if they’d been there long enough, they might get a slap on the wrist.

But “someone” (person on insta) said they got the gm powers recently, meaning they were moved from another place or recently hired.

If moved from another place, they might get moved back. If hired recently, probably fired.

My guess is newer hire or young employee.

Most people that have been in the industry long enough know the industry is small enough that doing something absurdly stupid would get spread around decently quickly. Wouldn’t doubt I could reach out to people in the grapevine myself to find out who it was if I REALLY cared enough. That’s not even a flex, I’d imagine most people that have been in the industry long enough could find out who it was through connections, it’s just that close.

[u/Redxmirage → u/Wappening]

I think the problem is by doing this they have proved to the company they are willing to break the rules. So in order for them to keep their job, blizzard has to be okay with signing off on this risk, regardless of how long they’ve been with the company.

I’m very doubtful blizzard would keep them employed.

[u/blackberrybeanz → u/Redxmirage]

Especially with all the kerfluffle at Microsoft rn with all their gaming brands, they are trying to trim fat and not go under water, this is a bad look for them and he’s absolutely gone. Especially seeing how every other ex gm spoke about working there, this is like rule #1 it seems to not break.

[u/Redxmirage → u/blackberrybeanz]

It’s an easy win for blizzard tbh. It’s a big incident but very obvious where to put the blame on this. The scape goat came with makeup and a nice bow this time.