Curse

Painbringer · Jan 14, 2008, 04:21 PM // 16:21

Ok if it is a honest find that does not break the rules in the first place (example: Trading at a trader lose your connection by accident and you get an item you did not pay for) yes but if you have to hack to find out there is a bug/exploit then you have already violated the rules and no.

Idea – for successful report –

A new mini pet called “A Little Narc” a little boy with a dunce cap on him

Kidding LOL

Edit- The only thing I would be afraid of with this is that people would HARD CORE look for bugs and may in the process cause more

Trub · Jan 14, 2008, 04:26 PM // 16:26

Hmmm..
ANet does reward you for reporting 'bugs' and glitches:
You get to continue playing on their servers, hopefully with 1 less bug/glitch/w-e to deal with?
THATS the reward.
Why would any gamer 'want' to go bug hunting? The game is for fun.
If you feel it's your calling to work with bugs/glitched/w-e///get a job doing it somewhere...leave my instance alone.

Fril Estelin · Jan 14, 2008, 04:31 PM // 16:31

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Originally Posted by Painbringer

Edit- The only thing I would be afraid of with this is that people would HARD CORE look for bugs and may in the process cause more

Don't stop here, go one step further: one person would be contacted by RMT/gold-sellers and be offered real money for his "expertise". The word would spread and there'd be a much bigger black market/parallel economy parasiting GW. We don't need that, enough greedy people in this game.

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."

"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed."

Lao-tzu

undeadgun · Jan 14, 2008, 04:33 PM // 16:33

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Originally Posted by Painbringer

Edit- The only thing I would be afraid of with this is that people would HARD CORE look for bugs and may in the process cause more

QFT

12 chars

IlikeGW · Jan 14, 2008, 05:50 PM // 17:50

Well they usually ban people who report them with the rest of the cheaters and sort them out later which is kind of retarded. I think more than a reward system we need a support staff with better ban review policies.

Dominator1370 · Jan 14, 2008, 06:22 PM // 18:22

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Originally Posted by IlikeGW

Well they usually ban people who report them with the rest of the cheaters and sort them out later which is kind of retarded. I think more than a reward system we need a support staff with better ban review policies.

The problem with this is the same problem with the idea of a support channel... Who's paying this support staff? You, with your monthly fee to the game! Oh, wait, but I don't.... Exactly.

Sure, a support channel couldn't hurt, and if it isn't too much work (I'm not sure why it would be), it should probably be implemented, but I don't think anyone's going to reach Nirvana because a Guild Wars staff member occasionally drops into the support channel and then has to listen to a hundred people screaming things.

Tender Wolf · Jan 14, 2008, 10:19 PM // 22:19

People would take advantage of this by finding every little thing wrong with the game that they can just so they can get some goodies.

freaky naughty · Jan 14, 2008, 10:22 PM // 22:22

Well, not every single little bug classifies as a "Major exploit" I believe that would be duping or the 117 who abused the Mallyx outpost. If the reward for finding one of these was a super rare mini, let's just say polar bear, it would probably be greater than any reward that these huge exploits can give. Besides it's better than duping and being banned.

Witchblade · Jan 14, 2008, 10:24 PM // 22:24

WTS New Secret Guild Hall exploit

S/B: lol
C/O: rofl

Croco Clouds · Jan 15, 2008, 12:58 AM // 00:58

well, ppl will spam duplicate bug report into their email folder

Kanyatta · Jan 15, 2008, 01:13 AM // 01:13

Wow, why don't they just give you like "reward chests" that you can open once a month and get free stuff from.

oh... wait....

Edit: Shouldn't this be in Game Suggestions?

kumiel · Jan 15, 2008, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Any reward will lead to people sending thousands of emails about bugs to support that they cannot deal with... the problem is just that people will report very mundane things and anet will get overwhelmed. The problem with the current system is that it is way too inconvenient to submit a support ticket and follow the entire process to report a bug. Most people (including me) just leave bugs alone because we don't want to waste the time to go through the process of reporting it and most likely not having any result. However, i think that they should re-implement the /bug command (which was used in the betas but is disabled now) with a slightly better system where you can categorize the bug (ie spelling errors, major exploit, npc problem, graphics, etc.). Maybe even for spelling errors or problems with graphics it could be set up so that you simply click on the affected object and it adds that to the bug report. This feature seems rather complex but would make it much more convenient for players to report bugs and would make it much easier for anet to fix them. Although it probably wouldn't be possible to implement a system like this for GW, GW2 should certainly do something to encourage people to submit bug reports.

Witchblade · Jan 15, 2008, 01:17 AM // 01:17

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Originally Posted by Kanyatta

Wow, why don't they just give you like "reward chests" that you can open once a month and get free stuff from.

oh... wait....

Edit: Shouldn't this be in Game Suggestions?

already implemented in a part of the game.
I think it's called Nightfall

Diddy bow · Jan 15, 2008, 01:19 AM // 01:19

I know the best reward!!

Acctually fix the friggin bugs...

maraxusofk · Jan 15, 2008, 01:26 AM // 01:26

i actually like tihs idea. think about it. this would greatly decrease the amount of exploit around bugs should they emerge because why bother getting ur account banned for testing / reporting bugs when u would gain some reward for reporting instead of exploiting? this would generate some greed, but at least it wouldnt be as reckless and as damaging as exploiting. anet will eventually catch most bug exploiters, so why not curb them early?

although i hafta say the reward should be an in game item and customized and be rewarded for a major bug so that there cannot be bug farmers or gold selling companies profiting from this.

ThisSuddenInjury · Jan 15, 2008, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Areanet should reward me for getting baked.

Shai Lee · Jan 15, 2008, 02:01 AM // 02:01

I think that this would just give Anet more work. They'd have to sift through the real bug reports vs. false junk reports that people might send just for a chance at a reward. After they do figure out which is true/false, then they would have to enter the truthful people in the reward list and what about all the liars? What kind of 'reward' are they going to get for wasting people's time?

Zeek Aran · Jan 15, 2008, 02:09 AM // 02:09

Prizes? Hell. No. There should be no prize beyond NOT getting banned [unless you exploited it before sending a ticket].

Kula · Jan 15, 2008, 02:29 AM // 02:29

The Salem Bot Trials.

Jake_Steel · Jan 15, 2008, 02:34 AM // 02:34

People shouldn't expect rewards for being good Samaritans.....