Notifications of other players times

Fuzzylumpkins

I belong to 4 trade guilds that have players like myself and others that belong to a main guild. However many of us use these trade guilds specifically for trade. Not conversation. It is why we have the chats disabled to any guild not our actual guild.

This of course, ZOS, is your fault for not allowing us to have an AH because as with many other aspects of this game you decided the best path to go was to make an mmo that played nothing like an mmo should, things like acceptable group questing and working content , etc. I digress.

Back to my issue. I do not care 2 rat's monkeys about what other players' times are when they complete AA or any of the new crag content. So can we get a disable for this? Not for notifications of course because then I could not see group invites. Not that those are useful in this game either but they are needed in cyrodil to run with your group and travel to players in delves.

Kthanx for reading. Hop on this, it is annoying. I get it, you want people to latch on to some false sense of achievement and competition by seeing these times but it is annoying. you have leaderboards for those that really care what these times are.

Fuzzylumpkins

Within 5 minutes of logging in just now, 9 notifications about players times. -.-

Holy crap, this is annoying.

EQBallzz

I have to agree. This is beyond annoying. Why is there no way to turn these notifications off? I'm in 3 large trading guilds with guild chat OFF for a reason so I don't want to be spammed with notifications every few minutes about trials.

Really starting to wonder about the thought process or lack thereof. It's like someone gets an idea about something and then nobody takes the thought experiment to the next logical step or conclusion. Hmmm...set up a system that forces people to join multiple guilds..then annoy them with spam and no way to turn it off. Brilliant.

Turelus

I agree that I would like a way to disable this.
I did a /feedback in game about it but I'll support this thread to.

Having notifications come up with no reason as to why then only to be like "Hey someone else did this thing!" isn't helpful to me at all, not sure where in development that team involved thought spamming players with notifications they have to stop everything they're doing to check, then have no option other than "check leader board" or "remove" was a goo idea.

I'm normally a defender of the game and ZOS actions but this was a pretty badly thought out idea when the game is made in a way which forces you into multiple guilds.

zgrssd

Last time I checked there was no inbuilt function to get notifcation on Guild Member logon,
In fact somebody needed to write an addon for that:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info431-GuildMemberNotifier.html

EQBallzz

zgrssd wrote: »

Last time I checked there was no inbuilt function to get notifcation on Guild Member logon,
In fact somebody needed to write an addon for that:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info431-GuildMemberNotifier.html

Not sure what that has to do with the topic. We are not talking about people logging on. The topic in question is regarding in-game notifications when someone in your guild does a trial and gets a "time". It sends out these notifications to everyone in the guild whether you want them or not and seeing as most people are in 3-4 trading guilds..they don't care about some random group of people in said trading guilds doing a trial and don't want to be spammed with notifications every 5 minutes.

SteveCampsOut

Let me just add my total agreement on this one! Give us the option of turning it off or disable it yourself but stop spamming me with notifications about *** which I don't give a *** about!

AreoHotah

i would also like to turn those of. they are soooo annoying. especially when you play with your headphones on and all of a sudden DING. every 10-15 mins.

redwoodtreesprite

Yeah, while I like to feel positive about my guild members accomplishing things, I really am getting irritated by the say notification popping up all the time.

Fuzzylumpkins

zgrssd wrote: »

Last time I checked there was no inbuilt function to get notifcation on Guild Member logon,
In fact somebody needed to write an addon for that:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info431-GuildMemberNotifier.html

This has nothing to do with the topic. Thanks for not reading but feeling the need to post.


Notifications- still effing annoying. Esp having to enter a separate menu of the ui to delete the damn things.

EQBallzz

Is this ever going to be resolved? This is still just as annoying if not more 2 months later...

ItsGlaive

Yep these notifications are incredibly annoying, please let us switch them off.

Turelus

For the love of the Divine's can we PLEASE have an option to turn this off soon.

Trying to PVP and all I have is "ding" "ding" "ding" "ding" because I'm in trade guilds.
If you want to have system which encourages players to band together and form large trading guilds please don't implement obnoxious messages every time people from those guild complete a trial.

Logan9a

Simple thing - ability to turn on or off some or all messages. I don't care when a guildmate gets a good time in a trial - even if I know them. I don't care when people log on or off. Silly stuff. Give people the option to turn on or off what messages they want to see.

Thanks OP!

MercyKilling

Really? Wow, yet another reason I have to be glad I'm not in any guilds. Go figure.

Vegaroth

completely support this, those notifications are really annoying

Artemiisia

it can actually considering as spam if you really wanna look at it, since we dont have an option to say no to not receiving them

dsalter

why not just allow guilds to disable them as a whole, trade guilds wont want them anyways

KariTR

MercyKilling wrote: »

Really? Wow, yet another reason I have to be glad I'm not in any guilds. Go figure.

Well, it's a bit like the mail notification. You don't actually get a pop up, just the chat bubble icon discreetly blinking away. I won't deny it is annoying in the sense I am not really interested, but doesn't actually disrupt game-play.

Having said that, I am only in the one trade guild, so probably get 2-3 a night, which I just open and cancel at a convenient moment.

Logan9a

KariTR wrote: »

MercyKilling wrote: »

Really? Wow, yet another reason I have to be glad I'm not in any guilds. Go figure.

Well, it's a bit like the mail notification. You don't actually get a pop up, just the chat bubble icon discreetly blinking away. I won't deny it is annoying in the sense I am not really interested, but doesn't actually disrupt game-play.

Having said that, I am only in the one trade guild, so probably get 2-3 a night, which I just open and cancel at a convenient moment.

I get a noise and some other distracting crap on my screen to steal my attention.

I'm just saying it's invasive, unnecessary, unwanted, unwarranted and un-welcomed. Crap. I should have started with an 'un' and left out invasive.

KariTR

Logan9a wrote: »

KariTR wrote: »

MercyKilling wrote: »

Really? Wow, yet another reason I have to be glad I'm not in any guilds. Go figure.

Well, it's a bit like the mail notification. You don't actually get a pop up, just the chat bubble icon discreetly blinking away. I won't deny it is annoying in the sense I am not really interested, but doesn't actually disrupt game-play.

Having said that, I am only in the one trade guild, so probably get 2-3 a night, which I just open and cancel at a convenient moment.

I get a noise and some other distracting crap on my screen to steal my attention.

I'm just saying it's invasive, unnecessary, unwanted, unwarranted and un-welcomed. Crap. I should have started with an 'un' and left out invasive.

Maybe something I have done with audio has the added benefit of muffling the noise. Though now it is there, I may just start noticing it. And like I said, only the one trade guild and only two guilds in total, so I don't get that many to make it too intrusive just yet.

Anvos

I have to agree that the notifications are annoying and if anything should have been restricted to friends list.

nvsg

Remove notifications yea!!!!!!Lets do this!!!!!

GaldorP

Yes, an option to disable these notifications would be great I'm also in several trading guilds with close to 500 members so I get them quite often and it's a bit annoying ><

MeowGinger

Please shut these off. For some reason, they always seem to show up when I'm in the middle of PvP.

Fuzzylumpkins

dsalter wrote: »

why not just allow guilds to disable them as a whole, trade guilds wont want them anyways

Not having played the game in months now I was surprised to get emails with notifications on this old topic. But yes. I agree with everyone about an ability or toggle to turn this off. Most of all in trade guilds.

Trade guilds overall are not social and they are the creation of developers forcing us into sects to buy/trade or flog, gear/mats and services. As of course it was the cheapest way to develop a game that was AH free, therefore using no resources to support a server wide market. So having to use these types of guilds it would have made the most sense to allow the GMs / officers to have a toggle concerning guild spam. Yes, notifications ARE spam. It is a forced message we have no control of getting.

I know this was the very bottom of issues the game had (has, I just don't play anymore so no longer care what else is broken/annoying) but it was annoying enough to have a negative effect on all of the groups I pvp'd in. Offering an option to disable the sound without having it lumped in with other useful game sounds would have been acceptable. It had gotten to the point where you turned off sound to stop hearing the damn ding and you lost that extra useful ability of hearing enemies near you in Cyrodil.


Although to be fair, the 5 guilds I belonged to in the end were still capped at 500 players but were all but entirely inactive players by then so the notifications had stopped. Look there players created a solution, they quit playing! LOL

Have a great week all, hope things have gotten better.

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theyancey

This is one immersion destroying piece of fetid guar anoyment.

Eirikur

I particularly want to disable the guild notification sounds that plays when members join or leave the guild. It's very distracting, and I couldn't care less about that kind of information.

SanderBuraas

It is pretty annoying to recieve these notifications, though.

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Ourorboros

A simple add-on, No, thank you, gets rid of these notifications as well as other irritants.

Ilawynde

There is an addon that allows you to disable these notifications.

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