Guild Wars 2

Was doing an event, saw a message in my chat box “xxxx (a party member) has enter room 102”.

What the heck is room 102?! Curiosity got the better of me and I foolishly clicked the link… and promptly got thrown into a spvp room.

By the time I get rid of the choose side pop up, click on the sword icon to go to heart of the mist THEN click on sword again to leave the mist, the event has already ended and I did not get credit for it.

Throwing someone into a spvp room just like that without confirmation is a huge mistake. I at least know how spvp interface work. What if its a new player who has no idea what this crap is? Imagine how confuse that person will be, how will he know how to get back?.

I know ArenaNet you want to push this esport thing, but this incident has only make me more annoyed with it.

I think the game messages are off by default. So the new player would have to actually turn it on and then be curious enough to see what room 102 is (and make friends).

Correct. You have to turn the messages on specifically and then click the link.

Best solution is to simply not click the link, considering it directly states it is a PvP server.