Guild Wars 2

I had my social window set to invisible today and noticed not for the first time that my guild chats are all unaccessible yet all other channel chats are fully visible. Why? chances are if I’m running invisible its to be not seen by other channels, or in searches for my character….not to be blocked from communicating with my guild.
This is very illogical to me. If you are going to block communications in one channel, why not block them in all channels. If you are going to block any channel, it should be the public channels before it is the guild/private channels. I also dont get why invisible is an option when a search still shows my character available.
Just a thought I had when I saw this today, thought I’d share.

The game doesn’t have a true “invisible” setting. What it has is a “Greta Garbo” mode: it makes it easier for you to be left alone. For a lot of people, turning off /guild chat is probably appropriate.

However, I think the reason it was done is to resolve a bug with representation: when you’re invisible, the game doesn’t always recognize you as representing the guild. Thus, you might be able to see /guild chat, but not be able to respond. Hiding the chatter prevents the bug, which might have turned out to a more efficient solution. After all, if you’re really invisible, you should really be invisible.

It’s not a bad idea to also hide /map and /say, because some people abuse the invisible status to troll and avoid receiving whispers.

Personally, I like the current system for hiding /guild and allow /map & /say.

If they have the time to work on something, I’d rather that ANet make Invisible more like Offline: your location should always show as ‘unknown’ and you should never get a ‘yellow dot’ on the map showing your location.