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Posted by: Nimaj.7562

Nimaj.7562

I hate using another game as an example, but it maybe best way to express the idea. Final Fantasy XI Online had a small, 3-line comment box that the player used to show their interests and ideas. For a small little box the players did quite well in advertising varied achievements, their guilds, their LFG status, or just give a nice hello message. (Even using the Auto-Translator feature.) I feel like a better version of this could be easily achievable and help the the Guild Wars community a lot.
A feature to examine another player ,or a guild, from in the game and see any comment they may have chose to display. Like viewing their equipment and maybe even learn a little bit about the “character” of the player. With the popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter it is easy to see how a small comment box can advertise a lot.
A player can set their own “message of the day” that could be viewed by anyone who examined, or searched, for them. Like how guilds already use a message box that other guild mates can read the guild’s message.
I guess I’m suggesting letting players read other players’, or guild’s, thought bubbles. See what everyone standing around the bank is thinking…

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Posted by: Ronah.2869

Ronah.2869

I thought of something similar and then I found some major issues with it.

1) How do you make people know they have this option while many don’t even know how to represent a guild with a new character?
2) What will happen if bad language is used in the boxes?

To solve the 1) issue, the game should make the player compile a “profile” just from the start with questions and specific answers like “Q:What you like to do? A: Dungeons, Raids, PvE events, WvW, etc”
Also, the more generic the questions are, the less accurate they will be and the more they are the more they will be skipped

to solve the 2) issue they can use a language filter but this will be not very efficient because even now people can still create bad names for characters and use them unless they get reported. So if they didnt implement a language filter for character names, I don’t think they will for text boxes