Block Feature in WvW makes no sense

Block Feature in WvW makes no sense

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Posted by: X T D.6458

X T D.6458

I have been wondering this for sometime, why is there a block feature in wvw for enemy players when we cannot whisper them? If you right click an enemy player it shows block and report options. But the block option only enables someone to stalk and troll you. Basically allowing them to send hate messages (which I personally enjoy and find amusing) and leaving you without a way to respond since you are on their block list, this also enables them to stalk you since blocked list shows peoples location.

So I’m just curious, is there a point to having this feature in there at all, it seems to have the opposite effect from its intended purpose, shouldn’t it be removed?

I say what needs to be said, get used to it.
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Posted by: TheLastNobody.8319

TheLastNobody.8319

Possibly to let you block people in your own world whom you find annoying. I do agree though, since it seems to only allow enemies to heckle you, might be better to just make it so you can’t block enemies.

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Posted by: X T D.6458

X T D.6458

Oh yea let me clarify by saying I’m referring to blocking of enemy players only, letting us block people on the same server is fine, there are always some stupid trolls.

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Posted by: Puck.9612

Puck.9612

Agreed, I love getting salty whispers in game but it’s very annoying not being able to whisper them back since they never unblocked me. At least if the crying is entertaining enough I can screen shot it and post it on the fun forums.

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Posted by: Raven.9603

Raven.9603

I think we are looking at this the wrong way.

WvW is about killing other players, the glory that killing them brings to your name and your guilds name, and the community that results from alliances and well respected or well reviled rivalries.

We should be able to see player names in WvW, and whisper them. We should see guild tags or names of guilds displayed on Sponsered keeps, towers and camps. We should see deathspam, reporting the death of the player who died and the person who killed them, perhaps color coded for each color of the war.

You should be able to receive and block whispers from anyone in WvW, just like in PvP.

The old rules about not being able to whisper enemies existed for two reasons: Cheating and creating internal Server Communities.

Cheating is going to happen, and the people that want to do it arent going to be stopped by something as trivial as not being able to directly whisper someone. We are in the age of TS DDoSing, TS spying, characters flying, walking under the world to get inside keeps and flip them, there will be hundreds of wall glitches with HoT borderlands, and Arenanet has always ignored rampant hacking reports across servers even with video evidence. Chatting is not going to change the state of cheating in the game. If anything, it will make it easier to identify and report the names of cheaters to their GM’s.

GW2 is becoming more of a server-less community everyday. In PvE and PvP it doesn’t matter, and with creative ideas for managing WvW population on the post-HoT priority to-do list, you can bet WvW will lose its Server Identity for something new sometime soon. Whether thats good or bad doesnt matter, what matters is with it no longer being a factor, its not an excuse to bar cross-realm chat.

The only thing that remains is Anet’s War Against Having an Identity in WvW. They dont want you or the people that kill you to have names other than “Invader” to keep WvW as carebear and friendly as possible. Their whole POV is wrong. Its war. Kill or be killed. Let us know who struck the blow, let us seek out revenge.

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

If the taunting is getting too much in whispers, you can always .. wait for it .. block them.

And then they can’t whisper you.

L’enfer, c’est les autres

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Posted by: X T D.6458

X T D.6458

If the taunting is getting too much in whispers, you can always .. wait for it .. block them.

And then they can’t whisper you.

Yes I know, that’s not the point of the post. The right click feature itself imo makes no sense as it has the complete opposite effect from its purpose.

I say what needs to be said, get used to it.
Honesty is not insulting, stupidity is.
>Class Balance is a Joke<

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Posted by: Jayne.9251

Jayne.9251

If the taunting is getting too much in whispers, you can always .. wait for it .. block them.

And then they can’t whisper you.

Yes I know, that’s not the point of the post. The right click feature itself imo makes no sense as it has the complete opposite effect from its purpose.

It’s really useful for congratulating an enemy on a good play. Not everyone uses it to troll Made tons of new friends that way.

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Posted by: oscuro.9720

oscuro.9720

I think we are looking at this the wrong way.

WvW is about killing other players, the glory that killing them brings to your name and your guilds name, and the community that results from alliances and well respected or well reviled rivalries.

New meta: when you kill someone, block them and whisper your name and guild, lol.

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Posted by: Ben K.6238

Ben K.6238

Why not open map chat to all servers? Unlike PvP it does the same thing as team right now.

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Posted by: Jana.6831

Jana.6831

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Block them as well and none of you will have each other on any of their lists.

Edit: Except the person remembers your name and unblocks you, I think then you will be perma offline to them.

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Posted by: Coyote.7031

Coyote.7031

Why not open map chat to all servers? Unlike PvP it does the same thing as team right now.

Is there a block limit? I imagine this is how I’d hit my block limit if there was one.

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Posted by: Nate.3927

Nate.3927

fairly sure there is a block limit or at least there was. I blocked so many gold sellers at one point I couldn’t block anymore. Then I cleared the older ones from my block list since I assumed those accounts are now banned.

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Posted by: X T D.6458

X T D.6458

I dont think there is a block limit like in gw1, thankfully. But again thats not the point of the post lol, the right click block feature when clicking on enemy players seems out of place and can have the opposite intent of its purpose, thats all I am trying to point out. I dont personally mind hate messages they amuse me to no ends, and any friendly messages are nice as well. But again the function itself doesnt make sense to me imo in the current wvw setting.

I say what needs to be said, get used to it.
Honesty is not insulting, stupidity is.
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Posted by: Vegetation.6419

Vegetation.6419

It’s because they can spam emotes and fill your chatbox.

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Posted by: Jana.6831

Jana.6831

It’s because they can spam emotes and fill your chatbox.

You can even turn that off – I used to block everybody who was spamming emotes – now I don’t have to anymore

Anyway, in general: I like it like it is right now – noobs don’t know how to whisper you, those who really want can do it – I had a lot of funny encounters with enemies and some of them are the reason why I transferred to my current server which I don’t regret.

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Posted by: sephiroth.4217

sephiroth.4217

People block you, get your name, then spam hate messages to you for killing them, they do it this way so they know for a fact you can’t say anything back to them.

People who party you, are a lot more friendly and usually ask for another fight or “well played”.

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