Guild Wars 2

In the first Guild Wars, editing a guild message was simple and convenient. We just clicked ‘Edit’, modified the message however we wanted, and clicked ‘Done’. If guild members wanted to copy part of the guild message they could just select it and use ctrl-c to copy.

In Guild Wars 2, when we click ‘Edit’ we get a blank message box to work with. We can’t make minor changes or additions to the guild message without rewriting the entire thing. This is extremely frustrating if we realize that there is a typo or we want to add something. There are also many ways to accidentally close the edit window, losing all of your changes. Guild members can’t copy things that are in the guild information such as URLs or VOIP information.

I haven’t said anything before because I thought there was no way that such a poorly designed guild message system was permanent, especially after the one in GW was so convenient. Instead I gave up on using guild messages months ago (after avidly updating and maintaining them in GW).

So I ask that guild messages please preserve the existing message when we click, make the edit window more stable so it doesn’t close if we switch windows, and allow guild members to select the text in the guild message so it can be copied.

yes. it’s annoying to retype everything all the time

They finally changed it to preserve the existing message when we click edit.

Thanks Anet!