Guild Wars 2

Please change the guild roster so that members who are not representing the guild show up as offline instead of online/not-repping. As far as the guild is concerned, those members are offline. It provides no benefit to see who is not repping and it lowers morale within the guild to see people not repping. It is also better for the privacy of the player for a guild not to be able to see they are repping a different guild.

I have to agree with this. As a new player who joined a guild to test the waters, I decided to join another with an alt. I then get told that I need to represent with ‘all’ alts by one of these guilds. Why? Because they can see I am online with another character, but not representing.
What this does?
1. Makes me not want to log in at all.
2. Quit the guild that wants me to rep with all my characters.
3. Never join any guild, because I have no privacy to do what I want.
There is 0 reason that any, one guild, needs to know I am online with other characters.
This is the first game I have played that has implemented this lack of privacy.

In response to Dariusdrgn, honestly there are other issues at play here too. First, Guild Wars 2 is one of those few games that lets you join multiple guilds. This splits your time and focus. In some cases this may even break the sense of ‘family’ that some guilds used to have, because now the member’s may have other, perhaps more important families. Paranoia grows with this system in some guilds and, honestly, I could sit here for hours explaining the potential issues arising here.

HOWEVER. I’m not saying the guild system is bad at all, just that there’s more social and personal impact behind it than your standard MMO.

Ultimately I agree. I’d like to show up as online in my currently represented guild only. However, I don’t think the current setup should be completely removed. Instead, I think this option should be a privacy setting. AKA an extra feature that can be enabled if the user wishes to. There are other people who would like to appear online to everyone at any given time.

Oh, I know there are people who have different privacy barriers.
I do play other MMO’s that allow individual characters to be involved with different guilds and no one is sitting there trying to tell me, quit that guild and represent this one, ‘only’. ((Because they don’t know I’m online.))

As for setting it as an, individual, privacy setting. I don’t care how it’s done, as long as GW2’s developers realize the problems it’s causing and the discomfort.

It’s an issue for both players and guilds. If it’s made a toggle for players, then it also need to be a toggle for guilds. Our guild wants to “turn off” members that aren’t repping. Right now the only thing a guild can do to get “not repping” off the guild roster is to kick people.

It would just be easier to make not-repping = offline in the guild roster. It would have no effect on the Contacts (friends) window, so people would always show up online there.

I strongly disagree. There can be multiple legit reasons not to be repping at any particular time. If I know a player is online and not repping I can still whisper them and ask them to rep if we have a guild meeting or something. If the player simply showed offline (which would be an outright fallacy btw) I wouldn’t be able to do time.

If a player wants to hide, they have the option to change thier own online status to offline.