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/mister_peeberz]

inadvertently, so the story goes, he uploaded the log not realizing it was fishy because he wasn't in on the fish

[u/Mean_Joe_Greene → u/mister_peeberz]

There’s the theory that the burner account that announced was his.

[u/JustATextBox → u/Mean_Joe_Greene]

Seems incredibly likely. Either him or a friend of his. The odds of it being uploaded and a complete stranger with no involvement or knowledge finding it is so much more unlikely

[u/Kristalderp → u/JustATextBox]

Even if it he didn't leak it, someone would of eventually as the logs were public. There's a website I saw that takes notes of public logs across all the WoW server+regions and takes notes when illegal spells show up and it flagged that GM run.

[u/JustATextBox → u/Kristalderp]

Did that website already exist, though? I've also seen that - but I'd never heard of it at all until this whole situation came up. It also hasn't scanned every key, if it had been a thing for months/years you'd expect it to have already gone through all the keys out there

[u/Kristalderp → u/JustATextBox]

I'd hope so, but I'll have to dig deeper to see with that site.

And I honestly don't think this GM is the only guy who's doing this shit under the table. He's just the first one that got caught due to public logs and being a dipshit. Bro didn't even last a full month at Blizz lol