Devs or Community Mods a plea about Blind Guild/Party Invites

hifi74 · February 2018

To the DEVS or Community Mods that can pass along this request/plea. Can you please add an option in the settings to block all guild and one for party invites. I get hit so often with blind guild invites and blind party invites it's ridiculous. I have searched the settings high and low (on Xbox One at least) there does not seem to be an option to decline said invites. Or for the party invites add an option to auto-decline/block them from people who are not on your friends or guild list (if you have actually decided to join a guild, which at this point I have pretty much refused to do because of blind invites). So please for the sake of your players who either don't want to join a guild or don't want to at least join one without someone at least talking to you and asking you first add this as an option.

froger · February 2018

You may want to consider making your own guild, that will resolve one of your problems. If you like, I can invite you to my storage guild, I don't do anything with it.

sgaddis13 · February 2018

I'm in a guild, so those invites aren't an issue for me, but the party invites in Protector's does get out of hand at times. At least message me and ask if I want to join you. If I don't know what you're doing, I'm not going to sign up blindly. HOWEVER!!! Shoe on the other foot..... I sometimes wonder if those invites are accidents from people inspecting other folks and hitting the wrong option. It's kind of like Winter Festival when we all accidentally invite people to groups when crowded around the fishing holes.

hifi74 · February 2018

sgaddis13#3703 said:
I'm in a guild, so those invites aren't an issue for me, but the party invites in Protector's does get out of hand at times. At least message me and ask if I want to join you. If I don't know what you're doing, I'm not going to sign up blindly. HOWEVER!!! Shoe on the other foot..... I sometimes wonder if those invites are accidents from people inspecting other folks and hitting the wrong option. It's kind of like Winter Festival when we all accidentally invite people to groups when crowded around the fishing holes.

Usually when I see them the person is nowhere to be found around me, so going off the actions I've known of others they are going down a "currently logged on" list and running down the line blindly inviting everyone with no guild tag next to their name. Now situations like you mentioned around the fishing hole and everyone's trying to get the epic fish from the currently purple fishing hole, yeah I can see accidents happen and in those situations I'm more likely to chalk it up to just that. But the ones where the person is other side of the map just sitting there, I'm more inclined to join and read them the riot act for 30 seconds and just leave the guild. Now oddly last night I had someone who happened to be the 2nd in command of a guild whose member did that to me last night contacted me and apologized for his guild mates actions. Which was a first for me in Neverwinter, though I've only been playing regularly since about Nov. anyways.

hifi74 · February 2018

froger#9967 said:
You may want to consider making your own guild, that will resolve one of your problems. If you like, I can invite you to my storage guild, I don't do anything with it.

Oh I dont want to bother you with something like that, but if it does get to the point of complete annoyance I may decide to take you up on that offer. So thank you.

Though question, with starting your own guild, is there a way to add your offline alts or at least invite them so you can accept the invite on your alt when you switch over to them? I've only ever had 1 game I could do that with and that was Dungeons & Dragons Online (aka DDO)where you could send the invite to your alts or friends in the in game mail so they could accept it when they logged in on that toon.

Thanks again, BTW.

armadeonx · February 2018

You can send invites to your alts via the roster window in the guild tab - in other words, yes.

froger · February 2018

Yeah, you just send an invite from the guild roster screen to name@gamertag.

sgaddis13 · February 2018

hifi74#8578 said:

sgaddis13#3703 said:
I'm in a guild, so those invites aren't an issue for me, but the party invites in Protector's does get out of hand at times. At least message me and ask if I want to join you. If I don't know what you're doing, I'm not going to sign up blindly. HOWEVER!!! Shoe on the other foot..... I sometimes wonder if those invites are accidents from people inspecting other folks and hitting the wrong option. It's kind of like Winter Festival when we all accidentally invite people to groups when crowded around the fishing holes.

Usually when I see them the person is nowhere to be found around me, so going off the actions I've known of others they are going down a "currently logged on" list and running down the line blindly inviting everyone with no guild tag next to their name. Now situations like you mentioned around the fishing hole and everyone's trying to get the epic fish from the currently purple fishing hole, yeah I can see accidents happen and in those situations I'm more likely to chalk it up to just that. But the ones where the person is other side of the map just sitting there, I'm more inclined to join and read them the riot act for 30 seconds and just leave the guild. Now oddly last night I had someone who happened to be the 2nd in command of a guild whose member did that to me last night contacted me and apologized for his guild mates actions. Which was a first for me in Neverwinter, though I've only been playing regularly since about Nov. anyways.

You raise a very good point. I was actually thinking more along the lines of accidentally inviting to a group, not a guild, because of how many times I have yelled "No, no, no, not you, I just want the fish, OMG..." during the Winter Festival. However, it never once occurred to me that people would spam guild invites by going down a list, because that is exactly what it is. Spam.

I will admit my former guild did recruit by randomly hitting up guildless people in Protector's. I also joined my original guild two years ago from a random invite, so I see both sides of this issue. HOWEVER!! I do believe there should be an option to block guild invites. I wasn't opposed to receiving them. Not everyone feels that way, and it can get obnoxious.

nitocris83 · February 2018

As someone who can't accept party invites while I'm at work (because I can never guarantee I won't get pulled AFK for work stuff), I totally feel you on this.

Devs or Community Mods a plea about Blind Guild/Party Invites

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