GM Island now has AreaTriggers - Most likely flags your account for inspection

[OverLordErIcH]

I bet the only reason they leave GM island in the game is to use it as bait to catch people using 3rd party programs so they can review there account and lets face it, majority of people who go there probably use hacks. It's quite tempting to go check it out if you are using hacks.

[Nyarly]

Hm, i'm sorry but is this any new ?

I mean i've known for years that when you enter GM Island your account get flagged. Not like i saw it but it was said multiples times before.
Anyway, i kind of see GM Island as the ultimate exploration point, if you can reach it, then you can probably go anywhere you want with the same method.
I've never went there because i don't want unnecessary suspicions on my account..

[Hanss]

This does not flag your account for inspection. GM Island was used during 4.2 to test the "Area Triggers" for the Deathwing encounters.

When blizzard test boss encounters they do it on private PTRs. No need to implement code to the retail version of the game to test single encounters.

[MoD]

Looks like it's time to break a few myths...

GM island is a placeholder for Game Masters performing ingame assistance to step on when they first connect to the game, nothing else.

It's placed out of bounds, only reachable by using bugs/hacks/client editing, which are bannable offenses.

Stepping on the island itself is safe, and doesn't flag your character/account & never has.

People are getting banned because they are stupid enought to:
*Squat there for more then a few minutes
*Summon other players
*Spam the chat
*Report themselves
*etc...

Upon drawing Blizzard's attention, they'll indeed end up being teleported out & suspended for exploitation.

Back on topic, those area triggers are nothing but remains of developements/testing, and most likely do nothing at all unless you are affected by the appropriate aura.

If Blizzard wanted to auto-flag/ban players stepping on the island:
*They wouldn't need to use an area trigger.
*They wouldn't make it displayed on the game client.
*All they would have to do is to check who 'discovered' the area (upon zoning in, you 'discover' GM island), which basicly would let them find anyone who ever went there, even years ago.

I don't mean to sound rude to anyone, i'm just tired to see the same old bullshit being spread over & over.

P.S: If you ask for 'proof', i'll just add that my main character 'discovered' GM Island in 2006, went there a dozen times ever since, and is still very alive.

[WizardTrokair]

Hm, i'm sorry but is this any new ?

I mean i've known for years that when you enter GM Island your account get flagged. Not like i saw it but it was said multiples times before.

The "new" bit is the "AreaTrigger 1" and "AreaTrigger 2" that now appear on your screen when you walk on GMs Island. Seeing this caused some players to incorrectly believe that the new development/testing triggers on the island were aimed at catching players that shouldn't be there.


(And everything MoD said in his post above is true.)

[Elektropop]

The Area Trigger messages appear at the first moment you stand on the Island, but only "Area Trigger1". In an area approx 30 yards in diameter in front of the front entrance to the house you constantly seem to be triggering "Area Trigger 1 and Area Trigger 2" when you move. It is though possible to enter the house without triggering any messages by walking around the corner and hugging the wall.

[TehVoyager]

Trokair and another person each went to GM island recently, Hey guys, either of you get nailed? no, K pretty sure this is just overreaction or trolling then

/thread please?

[KuRIoS]

Trokair and another person each went to GM island recently, Hey guys, either of you get nailed? no, K pretty sure this is just overreaction or trolling then

/thread please?

nothing wrong with discussions.. /shutitwith°/thread° please

[Xel]

You can reach GM island with various methods where hacks or any modifications are not present. You might want to check out our Exploration section for that.
The triggers with in-screen notification sound interesting though they are the last method Blizzard would use for tracking player movements.

I, myself, don't also believe in that GM island would serve any purpose at all. It's just there to honor the work of Gamemasters, a tiny little island just for them. Blizzard does this stuff.

[Joeljuve]

I thought they were used to catch players aswell but i went there some week ago when the exploit was new and im glad i got away, i stayed inside the GM box for like 15 mins just summoning ppl and dueling in there lol had a great time but now i know, thanks

[cdmichaelb]

I had a gm accidentally teleport me to Gm Island once.

[Cruven123]

The triggers do NOT send info to any kind of GMs.
What they are we don`t know yet, but they do not send any info to blizzard or anything.
Blizzard have in fact been working on GM island such as adding mini map and those triggers.

[EddyEvil]

I had a gm accidentally teleport me to Gm Island once.

SS or it didn't happen. They can get fired for doing that.

[Castseven]

The triggers do NOT send info to any kind of GMs.
What they are we don`t know yet, but they do not send any info to blizzard or anything.

You are probably right, but we can't know that for a fact. It might be sending them information they are ignoring. Or saving. (Both of which I sincerely doubt in this case, just sayin', we don't know for sure).

This does not flag your account for inspection. GM Island was used during 4.2 to test the "Area Triggers" for the Deathwing encounters.

Okay, now this is just downright fabrication. Not only is it false, it's completely ridiculous to boot. Can you please, you know, NOT make stuff up?

(Side note: I don't know why it's so hard for some people to realize that Blizzard has internal testing realms, they don't need to develop new content on some dark corner of a public-facing server.)