Guild Wars 2

Open mapchat on any map and you get several adverts about guilds who are recruiting. Those are in different languages and for different kinds of players. I call it spam.

Some people repeat those adverts way too often, sometimes immediately after the first post. Most players use a standard chat-window, which has barely enough space to view two of these spam-blocks. If there is or was a discussion on the mapchat, you have to scroll or enlrage the window just to keep track. Or if you ask something, get an answer and if you did not read fast enough, it is hidden behind another advert.

I wont block those spammers, because they need a way to advertise their guilds inside the game.

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When I open LFG I see mostly LFG messages which make sense. Few black sheeps however are:
> insulting another person to be a scammer (true or not, idc)
> advertising FREE Mesmerportal to … (but a fee is appreciated)
> selling a Legendary or Precursor, because they are afraid of the listing fee on TP.
> advertising dungeon-completion (legal ofcourse)
… etc.

I wont report most of them, because there is no other way in the game to do something like that. Some I block ofcourse, because the LFG automatically stops showing me groups with people I blocked – and I like that feature a lot.

The LFG works cool as it is, same with the mapchat. But the community has needs which should not be solved via those two functions.

Suggestion for the map-chat issue:
Give us a new chat-channel, with same functions as mapchat. Maybe a more informative color, how about yellow? Name it Trade or Community. Officially ban any kinds of adverts, from regular mapchat. Just inform people it exists and what it is for.

Suggestion for LFG issue:
Create a second LFG. Mostly copy/paste. Set a limit, 1 ‘event’ per account, maximum display time 1 hour. Instead of Instances let us select servers, instead of open world give us a public section (= all servers). Make a display box or something like that, where all messages in the category rotate. You see where this goes … .

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As with my bug-reports, I’m certain this post will be ignored. We’ve been discussing this in mapchat in caledon forrest. We also discussed about HoT ofcourse – as everyone else. One person asked me, to write my idea here. I told him, it will be ignored. His answer: “I did not ignore you.” So I promised to give it a try.

I’m confused. Why would you blocking those seeking Guild Recruitment keep them from posting their messages to anyone but you? Or are you saying you are interested in their messages (thus, do not want to block them); and if so, what is the issue?