Guild Wars 2

Something I noticed today that I’m not sure has been documented or not:

Gold sellers are flooding player mail with ads. Our inboxes our limited to 10 pieces of mail at a time from other players. But there is apparently a buffer for mail that stores what you do not have space to receive and delivers it when you free up room.

Checking my mail when logging in, my box was full of spam. As soon as I deleted one, I would instantly get another.

As fast as I could delete the mail, more filled my inbox.

Besides the obvious multiple violations here of TOS, it seems they have uncovered a passive aggressive way to grief players. You could send someone 100 pieces of mail and effectively block them from getting anything legitimately sent by other players until they sit there and delete each one individually. You wouldn’t even be aware your friend sent you an item until you sorted through them all, and I KNOW people would accidentally delete legitimate mail while clicking repeatedly to root through all of the trash.

This goes way beyond /m spam or the occasional mail. This is targeted harassment and has a direct impact on players and trade.

Now I am not sure how extensive the changes would be on the database side and in the mail framework, but a filter to not receive mail from anyone that is not on your contacts list would eliminate the gold seller spam, and potential for player abuse.