Guild Wars 2

I think it would be nice if the game had a dedicated chat channel for new players. There are many times when I am playing a new mmorpg that I am afraid to ask questions to the entire map/world for fear of sounding stupid. However, if there were a channel dedicated to new players I would not be so intimidated.

/newbie hello, i am new!

When I don’t know something I just ask, who cares. Besides is not like they’ll remember you after 5 minutes…and there pretty much always has been someone to answer.
I think a new channel just for this is unnecessary and useless since many of the people who would know a little about the game like to answer your questions probably wouldn’t be on a noob channel in the first place.

Azaziel.3608:

When I don’t know something I just ask, who cares. Besides is not like they’ll remember you after 5 minutes…and there pretty much always has been someone to answer.
I think a new channel just for this is unnecessary and useless since many of the people who would know a little about the game like to answer your questions probably wouldn’t be on a noob channel in the first place.

Good point. What good is a channel with only people that don’t know anything.

I don’t believe that the channel would only be full of new players. There are plenty of people out there that like helping others and I am quite certain that they would join the channel for the sole purpose of helping (I know I would if I knew a lot about a particular game).

I predict it’ll be quite useless.
If you create a channel for newbies, it’ll mostly have newbies asking each other things they don’t know, a few helping actual Guild Wars players, a misleading idiot once in a while who thinks that lying to newbies is fun, and “WoW is better” trolls, and some clueless jerk who doesn’t know about the newbie channel calling them noobs and to stop asking questions.

In any case, this is Guild Wars. You should not have to be afraid of asking a question, people should be willing to answer and no one should judge you.
In GW1 it was like that, and for now I have seen only a single instance of anyone judging anyone for being a newbie and asking questions.
People hurry to answer the questions instead.

Unless it’s the kitten stupid “When the dragon up?”, of course.
People asking that should get /map and /say chat disabled for at least 1 minute, and that time increased by 1 minute for every time they ask that within an hour.
It’s not that asking it is a bad thing, what’s bad is the reason for asking it (GREED: go to map and hit the dragon to get the chest without helping in previous events and barely helping in the dragon event itself, and then go to the next map and repeat the process) and how often they ask it, often without bothering to read previous chat lines they got because they were in the area for some time.

I doubt this would be used. If you’re so new, you might not
even realize there’s a channel dedicated to you.