Guild Wars 2

Hi. One of Nihlus’s friends.

It’s pretty bad. I tried some means on the suicide threats, there’s only so much we could do. If he hadn’t purchased anything via credit card on the store, they can’t do much more than IP address, which may get them a zip code if they’re lucky.

On the other hand, improving the blocking system should be somewhat trivial to do in the short term, and a bit more substantial to do properly (at this point). What would be the best option, if they don’t wish to change showing folks which areas someone is in, would be to set a flag on some table in their database which would automatically display one or both parties invisible to each other.

Depending on how it’s done, it could require a significant downtime as the database may have to backup and rewrite several tables. Not usually the easiest task.

Less efficiently, the query pulling the friends list could check the block list of each of those friends. Hide their online status.

More appropriately, query block lists for a particular account_id. Set a flag hiding all people who have that account_id on their block list.