Guild Wars 2

When creating a mail, the “To” field is often filled in with the name of a random person who happens to be standing nearby. This makes it excruciatingly simple to send the email you have been composing to a complete stranger.

While the potential for amusingly embarrassing emails is bad enough, the chances of this happening boost tremendously when spending an evening shooting highly expensive crafting materials back and forth between guildmates who are, in all likelihood, not standing near each other.

Please consider making a change to the mail system such that the “To” field is either never filled in automatically or will only fill in with people that you might have a connection to: guildmates, friends, perhaps people in your party, but not folks that happen to be standing near you in the bank.

Thanks!

It’s not random — it’s the name of the character nearest to you. In theory, it’s a convenience if you are trying to trade with a friend (e.g. send them some anti-undead potions while killing Risen in Orr). In other words, it’s not a bug; it’s a “feature” working as designed.

However, I’m willing to live with the inconvenience of always typing in a name in order to reduce the chance that anyone sends mail to the wrong person. Post this as a suggestion to remove auto-addressing and I’m sure it will get tons of support.

I’m pretty sure it’s whoever you have targeted.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s not random — it’s the name of the character nearest to you. In theory, it’s a convenience if you are trying to trade with a friend (e.g. send them some anti-undead potions while killing Risen in Orr). In other words, it’s not a bug; it’s a “feature” working as designed.

However, I’m willing to live with the inconvenience of always typing in a name in order to reduce the chance that anyone sends mail to the wrong person. Post this as a suggestion to remove auto-addressing and I’m sure it will get tons of support.

You don’t ever had to type in a name anyway. Just right click on their portrait if have them selected or right click on the portrait in the party “window” or right click on a name in your contact list or right click on a name in your guild window.

Khisanth, I’m not concerned about difficulty in sending mail to someone. I can type it or put in a name, either is fine. What I’m concerned about is the trivial ease of mailing something to the wrong person.

Losing a huge mail full of valuable mats because of a mail error, and not even being able to figure out who it was sent to easily, is problematic. I could see someone rage-quitting over it, if (for example) it had a complete set of mats for an exotic weapon.

It is good design to take Murphy’s Law into account. I’m suggesting that it would be good practice for Arena.Net to consider removing a simple to access, possibly severe failure mode. Don’t make it simpler to do the wrong action than to do the right one.