so, ive had this slight, annoying thing recently, related to friendlist that ive experienced in gw2.
in short, in friendlist, you can add anyone you feel like adding, and you can see their name, their location, achi points, even other characters they logs in with. and they can do this all without you knowing a thing about it, basicly getting access to alot of information regarding your account or characters, even when you wouldnt want them to get this information, such as going for alt to get some peace of mind, yet every friend would see you being on that very alt, and start whispering you even if you put invisible mode on.
and im pondering, is there any form of change planned for this friendlist system? like, you need to accept the other as friend perhaps before they can see your alt names, or that you could control how much info you let others see? or make blocks even mail wide?
cause its bit fustrating when someone starts to annoy you for some reason, you leave the zone and they follows you, you block them and you might get mails of em, or log to alt and they can see you on that very alt and come there too. basicly, making “player stalking” awfully easy in this game. cause you can just add person to the friendlist, and then remove them, while seeing their account name, character name they are on, and location sametime. and only way they could see that, is by checking “followers” list, from where you cant remove players either, unless you block, and even then they can see you online if they had you on the list. like with friend i tested it out.
he could see me online, yet couldnt whisper me, and could see where i was on with what char, even when i had blocked him.
as in my opinion, its good to have such way to communicate with friends, but it can too easily be used wrongly, or people you want to avoid for reason, or other, could easily see where your going or what named chars your playing.
