Guild Wars 2

The suggestion here is simple. Give us the option to only allow friends to private message you.

The amount of random players that PM me 1) really ignorant questions or 2) tell me how to play, is getting overwhelming and frustrating, and my block list is getting pretty full (I don’t know if there’s a limit but if there is it will soon be filled to the max).

And before you go ‘just block them’, Why? I shouldn’t have to, I should have the option to not get numerous random private messages from the whole flipping world – and when you think about this private message business … IT ISN’T VERY PRIVATE IF ANYONE CAN PM YOU!!! #irony

And before you say ‘just turn your status to invisible’, well see, there’s another problem… when I do that, and I have, multiple times, I then cannot speak in my guild and talk to my friends because it says ‘you are not in a guild’.

Anet, all I’m asking for is the option to only allow my friends to private message me (whilst still also being able to speak in guild chat, and appear online if I so wish, might I add). I’m sick and tired of dealing with randoms who constantly PM me to annoy me, and I’ve reached my boiling point.

I think I’ll put my status on invisible until something’s done. I’m so over this. It completely ruined my day today when, for example, someone PM’ed me ‘Society of Living Legends? So what, you think you’re a living legend?’ in a patronising manner. I had to explain to this random ignoramus that, no, I don’t think I’m a living legend, and that it wasn’t ME who chose the motto of the guild I am in, but he wouldn’t stop pestering me. I ended up having to turn my status to invisible. Yes I could have put him on my block list, but it’s getting pretty full as it is and I don’t know how much more space it will take.

I know I’m not the only one to be pestered by random fruitcakes – be they human or not. Feel free to share your experiences below.