Guild Wars 2

Any chance we’ll get better privacy options for the game? I don’t know if this quite counts as a bug, but being that logging on as invisible still reveals some of your online activity (namely the fact that you’re actually online), I would consider it not working as it ought to be.

The issues:

1. Players currently need to log on to the character select screen as “visible” to change their status to invisible, which defeats the purpose of having that option.

2. Even if you go invisible, there are still indications that you may be online via party, friends, or guild interfaces (some of which I can understand). My biggest issue is that if I want to be on an alt that’s unassociated with my guilds or friends lists, sometimes they’ll somehow figure out that I’ve been online and that I have another character that I wanted to keep private. I don’t know what specifically is tipping them off though — perhaps something in the guild rosters or friends list that shows your last played character?

I don’t want to give people the impression that I’m spitefully ignoring them because I dislike them or anything. There are just times I just want to play without any obligations to friends or guild. I’m obviously in a minority when it comes to people who actually care about this, but I feel it’s a pretty important one.

I can answer that #2. In the guild interface, when you change map location, i.e. from Divinity’s Reach to Hoelbrak, the guild interface updates your location also. And if you are changing locations constantly, your location in the guild interface will also do the same.

But I agree that this feature should be the same as it was in GW1.

I don’t think it’s a bug, but rather an incomplete feature. :/