Unable to send forum messages

Vandus · July 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno hello and good morning!

Has there been a change to the forums, intentionally, which prevents players from sending messages to other people on the forums? I can't seem to send a mail to anyone today via the forums.

Thank you in advance for looking into this.

ZOS_TristanK · July 2015

Hey there, @Vandus. To help prevent spam and other abuse, forum accounts do not initially have the ability to send private messages - although all accounts can still receive them. Once you become an active poster on the forums, you will be granted the ability to private message other players. So just keep on participating in the community and you'll be able to send messages in no time!

If you need to private message another member in a forum thread, please feel free to post in that thread and request the member to post to you.

Vandus · July 2015

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Hey there, @Vandus. To help prevent spam and other abuse, forum accounts do not initially have the ability to send private messages - although all accounts can still receive them. Once you become an active poster on the forums, you will be granted the ability to private message other players. So just keep on participating in the community and you'll be able to send messages in no time!

If you need to private message another member in a forum thread, please feel free to post in that thread and request the member to post to you.

Can you please define 'active'? I don't really enjoy making a lot of forum posts, however the people I want to message have been members since beta and they don't have the ability to private message me either. I can only speak for myself here, but I like to peruse the forums, posting only when necessary, it makes me a bit uncomfortable that I need to meet X requirements to private message someone when I am a paying subscriber.

Damianos · July 2015

I second this, I spend far too much money on this game (via crowns and multiple subscribed accounts), and have been playing since beta but can't message anyone on the forums.

Fasold666 · July 2015

I would also like to know the exact conditions...when is it possible to message another player in the forum?

Redeviledna666 · August 2015

Pretty much bump this up, im not a regular forum goer, i like to play the game and spend money on it, which you accept. But, i am not able to PM somebody i would like to get in touch with?

Just logging in to the forums leaves a footprint of who is sending the spam so i easily reportable, i see you have the ignore option as well, so that can be used.

Just let us PM somebody when required please, as stated i don't spend much time on the forum, but when i do, i would like to converse with other forum members as and when id like to.

Skafloc · September 2015

How many messages do need to post to become "Active"

MikkeOfGreenRiver · February 2016

I'm curious about this as well. I have friends trying to contact me but it seems that though I joined last year, I don't exist yet. Perhaps a few posts will do the trick.

NakedJustice69 · September 2022

Wow, six or seven years later (depending on when you start counting), and still no response from ZOS on this? Holy cow!

ZOS_Bill · September 2022

As this thread is now several years old and the OP issue resolved, we will go ahead and close the discussion. If you still need assistance, please feel free to start a new thread in General Help.