Guild Wars 2

This bug has been in game for a while. It was fixed before and then it happens again.

The bug is that almost every person i play with seems to be offline. I cant right click to add to party, forcing me to type out their name. It happens on the map, in guild chat, say chat everything.

The player’s status remains offline when i hover the cursor over their name. If they are off line and you add them as friends.. they automatically come online. Please check your server’s status on your end.

I am located in London and play on NA server if that helps.

i can upload screen shots or if you want i can make a small clip of it

Since launch, if I wanted to invite someone to a party via their name in the chat box, I found that I first had to temporarily add them as a friend to then be able to invite them from their name in my contacts list. I would then remove them from my contacts. I didn’t know we were even supposed to be able to invite people to parties that weren’t on our contacts list. Wow. This is what happens when bugs do not get fixed, Anet – people are not even aware of how it is supposed to work due to never experiencing it working properly.

NA server from USA

I’ve never been able to invite players from the chat box. When was this viable? I must have somehow missed the window of opportunity. Are we sure we are supposed to be able to do this?

I don’t think this is what the OP is referring to, however. Maybe I’ve misunderstood his issue. I thought it was the ‘players showing as offline’ bug.

from my previous experience you should be able to invite and whisper anyone in game via say, map, and guild chat. I spoke to someone at the euro gaming expo in September (i think it was the marketing manger not sure but I know he was a senior member of the team)

I showed him this bug while demoing it to him on the show floor. he said that he would have a look into it as he think the portals need to be reset from their end. honestly this ruins the game especially when someone asked for help and you want to PM them. Also some players have special character in their names and its just impossible to type it.