Where do the GM's hang out ?

[Falathrin123]

One does not simply log into Mordor.

ROFL. Best post of the entire thread

[Jilla]

I've always thought that it would be rather humerous if a GM was grouped 'secretly' with a few others doing an Instance or something, and said group was using a known exploit... what would the GM do? Would he reveal himself and lay the smack down? He he. I have only seen GM's running around a few times since BETA but maybe I have just been unlucky to see these fabled creatures.

If I were a GM, I'd just say at the start of the fight, "we are doing this the right way, no exploits." That way I'd save myself the headache and set a good example

As for GM sightings. Yeah, seeing on visible is like catching a glimpse of Nessie (or Chessie, or Champ, etc).

[Locklear93]

GMs and other Turbine staff hang out...everywhere. We have normal accounts we play on and interact with players on a regular basis. You may have had one or more of us in your group and never known.

When logged in for official business, we remain.....hidden.

THEY are they Great Eye! Always watching, watching...

[Comstrike]

A recent YouTube from a Turbine GM.

LINK

[Rendt]

I had a problem that involved a few of my characters. So I had a kind but invisible GM hanging out at the Michel Delving vault master for a bit as I logged each character in for a fix. Hurray for GMs that fix my broken characters.

[Falathrin123]

A recent YouTube from a Turbine GM.

LINK

When I saw the video I was like o.O what? but then I was like "rofl"

But then I viewed his/her channel, and again I was like o.O whaaaaaa?

[sirwillow]

Haven't heard about a GM place in Lotro, but UO certainly had one. The GM's and counselors had a jail/ prison that they would use. If someone was out of line, they would port them there, and sometimes would actually "sentence" violators to having to be in the jail unable to leave for a certain amount of game time (neat variation on the ban).

I found one image of it. Hope that works. There are others out there.

[LewsTherinTelamon]

Haven't heard about a GM place in Lotro, but UO certainly had one. The GM's and counselors had a jail/ prison that they would use. If someone was out of line, they would port them there, and sometimes would actually "sentence" violators to having to be in the jail unable to leave for a certain amount of game time (neat variation on the ban).

So what you're saying is that you had to log in and just sit there until your sentence was up? Now that actually would work better than a ban since a ban you can just go do something else and come back in a week and pick up where you left off.

[sirwillow]

So what you're saying is that you had to log in and just sit there until your sentence was up? Now that actually would work better than a ban since a ban you can just go do something else and come back in a week and pick up where you left off.

Yep, that's exactly what you had to do. At least that's what I heard. I don't know if it was account specific or character specific (I think character).

They also used it for interrogations, sorting out disputes, torturing of avatars, etc.

[Elrorhir]

The only time I saw a GM was during the attack of the hackers (people pretending to be GM asking for your account user name and password) and gold sellers in Meneldor (the same guys spamming Bree channel), this summer. The second day, a +gm was running inside bree as a giant chicken banning the gold seller as soon as they popped a message on bree and bree-land channel. Was kinda funny.

[asimon]

I had a nice experience with a GM as well.

Playing on Gladden, I did The Way of The Smiths and the Deep Way quests many times using the reflection pool. At that time I did not know I had to actually take the quest inorder to get credit for completing it.

I filed a standard assist ticket.
Within minutes a GM appeared.
He/she were very calm in "voice", nice to talk to and it felt like they knew what I was struggling with.
After the GM investigated he or she explained in great details why I should take the quest to get credited for it.

I'm a veteran at MMO's and I must admit I never had a more pleasant experience with a GM and a lightning-fast reply.
Kudos Turbine!

[Odin_of_Freyr]

I really miss ~+Amarthiel sightings in the Moors


wtb more random stuff like that. that's the kind of stuff that provides a change from the constant grind

[Stilgaard]

I can't believe nobody has figured out yet that they all hang out at Chotchkie's

[KitsuneGirl]

Obviously the GMs hang out in the West. >.>

[gangsta77]

Is it a Turbine employee perk to get free personal accounts to their games?

Or do you guys have to pay like everyone else?

Yeah.... Hey, I wana work for this game lol :P

[Sapience]

Yeah.... Hey, I wana work for this game lol :P

Check our career page and see if anything fits!

That link will also answer the question above as well.

[Falathrin123]

The only time I saw a GM was during the attack of the hackers (people pretending to be GM asking for your account user name and password) and gold sellers in Meneldor (the same guys spamming Bree channel), this summer. The second day, a +gm was running inside bree as a giant chicken banning the gold seller as soon as they popped a message on bree and bree-land channel. Was kinda funny.

LOL this is hilarious, "The power of the chicken compels you!!!"

[Falathrin123]

Check our career page and see if anything fits!

That link will also answer the question above as well.

My lotro thread brings all the dev's to the yard

[MataTahu]

Check our career page and see if anything fits!

That link will also answer the question above as well.

It's links like that that make me wish I was going for programming instead of networking.....


I'll have my CCNP cert in a year...maybe you should add a new in-house data center so you can hire me to run the network!

(Or, just figure out a way to hire me as a GM, remotely, so I don't have to move to MA )