Guild Wars 2

On my server, there were people who were coordinating playing neat, random videogame songs via the Wintersday ‘Choir Bell’ items… until a handful of players from one particular guild thought it would be funny to buy large amounts of the Choir Bells and spam a note over and over until the performers got upset and left.

Now one has set up his account somehow to go through dozens of these bells, ringing the highest high-octave note for hours on end. As I write this post, he’s been ringing the same note repeatedly for 3 hours inside the Lion’s Arch bank. Other than the obvious that he’s clearly set up some sort of script to do this to harass/annoy others… there’s a problem here that needs to be sorely addressed: sound spam.

I really hate the idea of go into options to turn off sounds when I step into Lion’s Arch just because of one or two meanspirited players. It is unfair for others to have to alter one’s game experience to accommodate spammers.

The easiest solution that I see is to make it so that placing players on ignore/blocking players will prevent you from hearing their audio emotes and any sort of sound from consumable items — like the Choir Bells — they may use.

We should also have a check box to turn off player generated music entirely.

I recommend you report the player to ANet, either via the “Ask a Question” option on the support page or emailing them directly. You’ve alleged two actionable behaviors: botting (using a script to play the bells) and harassment/griefing (using the game to annoy people). That’s enough for the relevant support team to investigate and decide whether the player is acting appropriately.

I think this is a better solution than ignoring/blocking such players, since it addresses the behavior directly.

This is one of the things I’ve found in the past few days to be very annoying, players ringing those bells during events. It’s extremely loud and obnoxious.