Guild Wars 2

Gator.5729:

If everyone who has ever received a spam whisper from gold sellers noticed, everyone of them seems to have 17 AP. I can’t think of one that I’ve seen that ever had more than that in the last 4 years. Maybe there is a way to restrict whispers based on something like that.

The problem there is they would probably just resort to try stealing more accounts obviously with AP points. That really does not help a lot.

Gator.5729:

If everyone who has ever received a spam whisper from gold sellers noticed, everyone of them seems to have 17 AP. I can’t think of one that I’ve seen that ever had more than that in the last 4 years. Maybe there is a way to restrict whispers based on something like that.

Or they simply get more AP. 20 AP is like two days of dailies? Any kind of filter you pick, it would be a minor inconvenience to them but a larger and larger burden on legit players.

Chris Cleary.8017:

There are active internal discussions pertain to issues that could impact RMT spam. We are always attempting to make the experience for our players better. Suggestions like a client side chat filter or a friend only whisper option only tackle the surface of the problem as players would have to enable those options. By doing so, they would become less social with the rest of the community and that’s not what GW2 is about. I understand that may be what some want, but I’d rather spend developer time fixing the core issues than adding surface filters.

Judge what you want to work on however you like, however, I would submit that a client side filter would not alter the social level anyone (anecdotal evidence is anecdotal). We can already turn off entire chats, why not parts of them?

Add this feature. Its long overdue.

After a decade of GW1 + GW2 and the RMTs have found a way to circumvent whatever restriction are put in place. At least let your players take care of themselves as best we can.

Bandini.6185:

stale.9785:

I do like the idea of not receiving whispers from people who aren’t mutual friends. That is a worthy suggestion, in and of itself, regardless of the gold selling scum.

I would be strongly against this idea. In fact, it would have prevented me to have a lot of people in my friend list.

That’s why it needs to be a toggle.

I’m all for this toggle. I would have it turned off mostly, but there are times when I most definitely would turn it on. Especially around events and major content releases. Or when I have to go to the Mists… I always seem to get a lot of whispers at those times.

I think this toggle idea seems great I can’t see a downside to it, those people who have it so they can’t recieve whispers probably won’t reply anyway so it won’t stop people being social. Just make it default to have no filter so you have to actively turn it on problem solved. So many times I’ll be talking in map/party/guild to actual friends and 3 gold spam messages mean i have to scroll up to read what was said, pretty annoying.

It is all well and good to tell us the obvious (not buying from them) but it is rather off putting having to daily block and report a spam bot multiple spam bots in central areas.

Gaile Gray.6029:

stale.9785:

I do like the idea of not receiving whispers from people who aren’t mutual friends. That is a worthy suggestion, in and of itself, regardless of the gold selling scum.

Frankly, I would agree with those of you who feel that way, and I do see the value of that. In my line of work, it wouldn’t be the best thing. But for most players, yep, it’s something I believe could make a good QoL change.

But I wanted to ask a question: How would you build a friend list without whispers? Or maybe I’m more wondering how would you discuss adding someone, mutually, without whispers? Open chat?

Make it a toggle-able option!

I get why you wouldn’t want it enabled, as our community interaction type person, (Also, still, my single favorite member of the Anet community) but for those who aren’t particularly gregarious, it would be awesome.

Gaile Gray.6029:

But I wanted to ask a question: How would you build a friend list without whispers? Or maybe I’m more wondering how would you discuss adding someone, mutually, without whispers? Open chat?

Excelsior!

I think whisper chat is the one most abused – because you can tell something others should not hear. Last time I didn’t ressurect some guy (because he was an idiot) and I basically got the full flame dictionary in purple chat. If he would have said that loudly my report would have had more impact.

Using the mapchat is the most fun and easy way to build a network of people with the same intentions. Simply by “broadcasting” further and thus reaching more people.