Quote Originally Posted by Fawkes View Post
Frontline is a mode where there are too many factors outside your control for you to ever ensure success. Nobody should be taking it that seriously or getting mad over it. It's the PvP equivalent of an alliance raid.
Wow. FL was the main reason I was subbed, and you're instructing me not to take it seriously. Try applying that argument to any other group content. How would it go down in Forked Tower if someone started flooding the chat with jokes?

As to your vapid observation that an individual cannot ensure success, yeah that would be odd wouldn't it? With tryhards having 100% win rates. What an individual can do is reduce the chance of success through lethargic or disruptive play. And it's against the rules:

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Quote Originally Posted by Kranel_San View Post
Would that also apply if I had to answer the door, or took a toilet break for a moment? From an in-game view, it's also disruptive and you have no methods of confirming the ongoing irl.

In essence, it shouldn't be different than typing during a frontline. If you punish someone for any form of social communication that isn't rude, then you have failed as an MMO regardless of the situation.
You've answered your own question. Nobody knows if you have to step away briefly because of RL, so it's actually completely different. The social communication in FL is very important for helping the team win. Spamming chat with irrelevance helps the team lose.

Because of the frenetic pace, it is difficult to be noticed at all in FL. A couple of one-liners in chat won't register with most of the team. You have to be a real PITA to type enough in chat to even get on the radar of others. Actually getting reported demands an even higher bar, since it requires someone to be sufficiently pissed off they go through the cumbersome process of filing a report.

We don't know what OP said to cross this threshold, but it takes a lot of effort to be so disruptive that someone files a report, and for the GM to then issue a warning.