Guild Wars 2

Yesterday, a friend of mine and myself were playing and all of sudden he got a really hateful whisper from someone that he didn’t recognize. He tried to respond to it but it seems the person blocked him the moment he sent the whisper. Upon doing some research, we found it was someone who had disagreed with my friend here on the forums and then took it to the game.

My question is, Is this type of behavior bad form, or something that happens a lot.

I myself think it is bad form and childish. When I post here on the forums, it is to get my opinion out about the game. I have had heated discussion with others in the community where I actually got a little mad, but I have never thought of calling them out in game. I feel the forums are separate from the game. Once I am in game, I want to enjoy myself and not worry about the things I don’t like in the game or take being mad about a discussion to the game and interrupt someone else’s time relaxing and enjoying the game. What is everyone’s thoughts on this.

If they were verbally abusive your friend should report them. ANet is very strict about that, whether it’s on the forums or ingame and will suspend or ban them for such behavior.

Let’s face it Hjorje, it is obviously some kid or insanely immature adult who would act like that. Only a young person or troll would act that way.

I agree with you, it is terrible form to cyber stalk someone in-game because you didn’t like what they said on these forums.

Some people just cant maturely handle someone not agreeing with them or disagreeing with their position.

Yeah, terrible form, report if you want, block them and move on.

I troll people on these forums all the time, never gotten a bad whisper in game…

In fact, all I’ve gotten in game were friendly whispers of people asking me to help them with something, which I usually did.

I’ve only made a few reports, but yes my block list is rather long. They don’t even need to be talking to me but to someone else, just worthy of a block; in case they some day try to join when I LFM. Block-block-block, it’s a good social tool worth it’s weight in gold… if it had any weight

Until last night it was the same for me. People I have had heated discussion with have never said anything to me in game. I have actually run a dungeon or two with a few of them. That is why I asked the question here, I wasn’t sure if this was something that happening more often and I hadn’t been a part of it yet, or if it was something rare.

My friend did report him. I also sent him a mature mail asking him to leave stuff on the forums on the forums, and not go calling people out in game. He then sent me hateful/rude whisper with some choice words and blocked me before I had a chance to respond. I also reported him for it.

/agree with most here… Bad form.

Report it, block them, carry on.

I think the thing to remember is this game is for ages 13+.

That is just physical age, not mental age, which tends to include a much larger group of 17+ children.

Have you ever tried to have a discussion with a child who KNOWS they are right; about something they clearly know nothing about?

You reported their indiscretions. If ANet deems it fitting they will suspend/ban the account.

Imagine the look on the kids face when Dad can not play for 3 days/Ever.

It’s extremely bad form.

If it happens, though, just screenshot it, report it (include the screenshot in the report), block it and just forget about it. At least blocks here are account wide, I remember a friend in another game (name is 3 words long, two of them start with W.. ) where ignores are character based, she was trying battlegrounds (like sPvP for those that don’t know), captured something she wasn’t supposed to capture, and one guy kept harrasing and insulting her for hours after that, she would ignore him, and he would create a new character just to keep at it. He was probably banned afterwards (at least never heard from him since then), but was very annoying while it lasted.

A bad egg my friend. My post history shows that I have strong opposing feelings and thoughts toward the game, even though it is also a fantastic MMO. There is one individual on these forums that I have found to have a mutual respect for because he and I have really gotten into it (you know who you are). And I do thing he is out of his mind and WRONG. But I’d never take it to the game. Why bother? Accomplish what? My game time is limited, so why waste the time and energy.

No, I don’t think its common and Ive never seen this happen in any MMO ive played. That person is childish. Sorry you and your friend experienced it.
Report it, move on with your day. No sense in dwelling.

edit: Not to be stereotypical, this game requires no subscription. So when a parent buys his kid this game for holiday or birthday or whatever reason, the kid doesn’t need daddy’s credit card to continue a subscription. Thinking about it logically, you should find more kids in this game than sub games, although Im not sure thats entirely true. Food for thought.