Guild Wars 2

GW2 allows too much “cyber stalking”.

It is far too easy to see what someones account name is, which characters they play, when they’re on-line, etc. All without permission to have that information.

1. I think I should be prompted if someone wants to add me to friends and I should be able to deny the request for them to follow me.

2. I also want to be able to log in invisible. Currently I appear online as soon as I hit the character select screen and I already have whispers when I load in game.

3. Also, the game currently updates the zones I’m in while I’m appearing offline. Making it extremely obvious that I’m actually online, just ignoring everyone. The game should stop doing this.

Here’s a few ideas to help this situation:

Following: Players following a particular character should not be following the entire account, only that character. Once the player is accepted as a friend, the account is added normally.

You can currently block players that are following you because you are given a list of followers. In my opinion, it shouldn’t be the player’s responsibility to block/disable functionality for each person individually trying to track you.

Log-in: Players should be allowed to log in anonymously so as not to be shown to followers. This should also disable tells, invites, updates, requests, etc when they are made towards the player.

Hmm i’m all for a change like this. Sometimes I don’t want my girlfriend knowing im RPing with other girls online.

I like the fact that interaction is based on account rather than character. That way you don’t have to know every single alt of a player so my vote would be for anet to keep account interaction. If you get stalked… block them