The Frriend List is a total garbage system, that needs a complete overwork since release of the game.
Seriously, I meant it like I’ve written it exactly.
The player has since its there NO real control over his/her personal “rights” anymore, when it comes down to god forbid stupid “followers” and what these people can see in the game about you where and when you are in the game, what these people has not to interest, if I as person DON’T WANT It, that these people should see my location in the game.
if you play this game for the first time and see, how its kittened follower system works – you lose instantly your belief in humanity, how something like that was able to find ever the way into the game.
Once someone follows you, you can’t by hell do absolutely nothing at all as person in this game to make it unhappen.
yes, you can block someone, but that person can still “follow” you and see when you are online, where you are in the game ect. pp
all things, that if i block someone – should for a sane thinking person STOP IMMEDIATELY without any “ifs” or freaking kittening not having to be there at all “buts”
You see there, this is a very very sensible topic to me …
I don’t know why exactly – maybe it has somethign to do with the fact, that GW2 has been the very first game in my life where I ever got my account hacked and I see this kitten follower system as a part of this problem.
its something, as part of the frind list system, that should be under my opinion only there and active for your account, if you as player WANT TO HAVE IT.
If you don’t want to have followers – AT freaking ALL – I as owner of my game account should have the right to decide, WHO follows me and if at all anyone should be able to follow me.
That there is no Remove/Kick function for the player to change directly, who is on the follower list and who not terribly annoys me since 2012, because Anet has done since release of the game NOTHING on these systems, when it would be so simple in fact to add just a bit more quality of life for everyone and more control functions to the system for the player.
Same should be done with the Frind List itself .. Essentially there is absolutely NO NEED at all to have a Follower List, if we have already a “Friend List” and I as owner of my account should have full control over it, who is on that list.
If someone wants to be freinds with me as example, all that needs to happen then is just only that I as receiver of that friendship request should get asked by the game, if I want to accept that request, or not.
More doesn’t have to happen and easier can#t be a Frind List handled with full control over it, who and when somebody should stand on that list and especially what those friends should be able to see all.
Nobody in that list should be able to see generally everything about me, only because that person X stands on the list.
It should be possible for me like with the Guild Member List as Guild Owner to decide as player, which kind of “View Rights” those individual “friends” should have.
There can be friends on my list for example, where I want that these people should always know my location in the game and so on and so forth.
but there can exist also people, where I think, these people can stand on my friend list, yes, but they shouldn#t be able to see, where I am currently in the game, they should be for example only able to see, that I’m online.
Theres is absolutely a need for it, that this system gets finally overworked. And that rework of this system is absolutely not an impossible task to do with such extreme efforts, that it would take potentially ages to get it done -no, its something that ANet could do and implement practically with every single easy peasy patch any time.
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
