Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else noticing the overwhelming amount of “WTS” and “need dungeon team member” posts flooding chat? I understand the WTS posts, even though I don’t make them myself since the trading post still doesn’t work for a lot of us. There’s a ton of guild advertising going on, too. Why can’t we have specific channels for these things, like in GW1? I have a hard time following an actual conversation with all this junk popping up constantly, or answering questions for other players when they need assistance.

Failing that, can we just have an option to turn the world chat off completely, please?

Would be better not for more chat channels but separated windows and systems.

In gw1 they added chat channels for selling and that was just filled up with a rolling list of items that was soo fast you couldn’t read anything as people kept pressing there up arrows constantly to send new chat to the screen to stand out and using caps etc.

Now they implemented the trade post which is a better solution less scrolling and you can actually search in your own time for items and its a global across all game servers which means it works not just to the people in your zone but the 2 million+ players at the same time.

This is how trade is meant to be but some people are refusing to use it as they don’t like the transfer costs of selling a item or have some aversion to it thinking that they would be banned for exploits etc also they try to sell higher than you can buy on tp to people who are impulsive and don’t research properly.

If the TP is a issue for you still with having access, please make a support ticket on it and let them know, if allot of players are refusing to use it and its hindering chat for others etc then thats something Anet needs to look into as tp is great and I use it everyday to sell in zones and instantly free my backpack slots.

As for guilds and dungeons, they need game wide solutions like the trade post just not a chat channel for that zone that guilds and dungeon lookers can spam.

I’m sure they are working on ideas for these but more chat channels are not the solution.

Creating designs interfaces and ways which give more power and ways people can search and be efficient are.

All chat channels will do will give people a dedicated place to sit there for hours pressing there up arrow and enter which is wasting there own time and people don’t want to see scrolling lists constantly.

• You can turn off /map chat in your chat options.
• As people realize how much easier it is to trade using the TP, we’ll see some dropping off of WTS/WTB.

I agree it would be useful to have a better mechanism for people looking to form dungeon and event PUGs.