Guild Wars 2

Dear ArenaNet,

Thank you for making Guild Wars 2. It’s a very nice game.

Once you block another player, is emote text supposed to be blocked as well?

My observation is that blocking a player does not seem to block their stock and custom emotes, and I am not sure whether this is a long-standing bug or a feature or whatever so here I am.

• If it does block these, about how long is the expected delay once you block a person? It does not appear to be immediate.
• If not, please consider a remedy to this as soon as possible. If I block someone, I don’t want to see any of their text.
• I will add anecdotally that the apparent inclusion of Kessex in the Megaserver environment may have amplified this issue substantially for me and my RP friends. Last night was remarkably bad once we all managed to get into the same instance.

I am a roleplayer, and use chat extensively, but I am extremely reluctant to file a complaint about someone due to their lighthearted banter whether it distracts me or not. When they get nasty, they definitely get reported. But short of that, when they’re just having their own fun and they’re not really breaking any rules, I imagine they have as much right to the chat box as I do, correct? So I simply want to filter them out and avoid a confrontation, you know?

Therefore, I do ask that I be empowered to minimize these kinds of distractions on my own, please. Block comes close but it doesn’t seem to work as it should, and the issue is going to get worse as more players are piled into the same instance.

Making blocked people and their effects disappear entirely would be even better. Once they know they’re blocked, a troller’s next steps are usually to spam weapon and AOE skills in the middle of the scene and turn it into a circus…

…which would be like totally fine if we were roleplaying a circus or something!

…but we’re usually not, you see.

…anyway… so… that’s all, I guess. Thanks for reading this far.

Emotes are not blocked at this time, unfortunately.