Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if this is a bug, or if it’s intended feature. I haven’t found anything on it on the wiki, or with a quick forum search here, or a search through google.

What happens is that I’ll Advertise in the Looking For Group tool what I am looking for, and I’ll proceed to go about my other business while I wait for people to join the group. However, after say 5 minutes, if no one has joined the party, I’ll get removed from the Looking For Group tool, and it’ll tell me I’m no longer in the party.

After this happens 3 times, I can no longer set up a group because I’ve been suppressed for excessive messaging. That’s 3 party searches over 15 minutes. So first, why is the LFG Tool removing my party without my say so or anyone even joining me. And second, how is that excessive messaging?

Sadly that’s wanted by anet. Their ingame lfg tool is just very bad! First problem are Botter/Gold Seller/Kids/Scammer that missuse it (example “wts eternety 20g”…).
So if these get removed after 5 min. and can only put their stuff in for 3 times, the possibility to scam or hurt more people is limited.

Next thing is that alot of people use it. If you look at it for several minutes, you can see sometimes (during primetime) that there are hundret’s of groups grouping in a second. If Anet wouldn’t autoremove every lfg after a certain time (5 minutes) then you would see hundreds or thousands in there and would have to scroll like an hour to find what you want. It’s even worse because sometimes people forget it, or go offline, or start doing something else.

So Anet really had to create these 3 times 5 min. restriction so the lfg tool is at least a little bit of use.

I personally totally understand this and I like it sometimes (for example if you search for a silverwaste map or for a dungeon, this system is perfect for these^^), but for unusual things this system is useless and worst possible. For example if you try some higher (40s) fractal level, or open world content, or story missions, or (right now) high ranking drytop map, or you look for people to complete some hard achievements. That’s all stuff right know where the lfg tool is close to no use…

And of course the whole 3 times 5 min. is sometimes an even bigger problem because everyone can join your group and leave (so your lfg will be removed too…). Against this anet really could do something, for example that the lfg starter can accept people (like group invites) that want to join him and not that every —-——- can join by his own without even reading the description most of the times.

Thanks for the clarification. At least I know it’s intended now.