Guild Wars 2

Clearly there’s a problem here. Look at the time stamps. Seven minutes since the last message, and none of the names pictured were me anyway.

The excessive message warning is… excessive.

Very annoying.

I discovered only a couple days ago that it pertains to GW-mail as well. I had a fairly lengthy notice to go out to my Guildies (sorry, “Message of the Day” does not reach people. Nobody makes a special effort to go to the Guild menu and look at it). So I sent out mail, using CTRL-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste the message into a new letter. I got the excessive messaging error on the third person.

Seriously? This is already a slow method of delivering info. I’m sure there was at least a minute or two between sendings. It needs to be backed WAY off. Five whole people in my Guild, and I can’t even get a letter out to all of them without being told it’s excessive.

Excessive messaging should only be applicable to the “generic” chats (“Map” and “Say”). The other chats are for various groups, and we can decide for ourselves if we need to boot someone for being too talkative. And IGNORE should take care of people trying to use WHISPER in an excessive manner.

As far as mail goes, if you are in the same Guild as the recipient, or if you are on each others Friends list, excessive messaging should not apply. They really need better Guild communications (mass mail from officers, Message of the Day that appears onscreen at login, etc.)

I definitely agree about the mass guild message thing. That would help with a lot of things. Sure there are plenty of sites where leaders/officers can set up forums, but how often do members actually check those? The average player would rather just log into the game and get the info there. And the Message of the Day only holds so much.