Right clicking “General” in the ingame chat gives you the possibility to go into settings. Under settings we find many different things. One thing f.ex is “Achievement announce” , can tick the box.
But the thing is that it is impossible to understand what Blizz means with this, does ticking the box mean I see my own achievements announced or does others see it, it doesnt explain.
This makes it a very slow task to actually understand and learn what the different things under settings do (some are easy though).
So, others can see, if they want to, when I make an achievement, and there is no way for me to hinder others to see chat-announce when I make an achievement ?
You select “Achievement announce” if you want to see your own achievements or these of others.
You select “Guild Announce” if you want to see achievements from guild mates.
You can’t prevent others from receiving these messages.
These toggles are just filters to messages received but only affect your own chat as Lucaan explained above.
Just to give a real world analogy, imagine your in mall and it’s too noisy there, you can’t prevent anyone from receiving the noise but you can use earplugs to reduce it.
Yes, I meant both, you can’t choose, currently there is no built-in option for that but you can use an addon if you want a more fine-grained control over it.
It’s not complicated.
Nope, no privacy at all when it comes to announcing achievements whether you’re in guild, party/raid and unlike yell and say it has no proximity.
I was in an instance with a pickupgroup today and one of the players had something auto programme/addon that said (or spammed Id say), “pummeling this”, “interrupting that”, “herostrike…” and whatnot in chat all the time. This is noise for the eyes and drowns the real comments in chat.
So I asked; how can this be stopped ? Someone said; “settings”. I said “mine or his ?”. They said “ures”.
SIGH… Its him doing something inconvenient, not me, so HE should be the one dong the work to stop it right ?
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Im the source for my achievements so I should have the ability to block announcing them off to rest of world if I so desire. In My Opinion.
Gosh, you are realy easly annoyed. This is useful information when someone announces their interrupts or CC.
Of course he can also do the work to stop it, but he doesn’t want to and it doesn’t annoy him. It annoys you so you can block all the chat messages from being displayed.
Also why are you so annoyed that your achievements are announced to other people. For a group or raid it’s a situation when it’s useful and helps if the group tries to do an achievement. It’s also a some sort of a social group so they can be nice and congratulate you. The same applies to a guild. As for random people in your proximity, they don’t even care because for them you are just a random person.
SIGH… Its him doing something inconvenient, not me, so HE should be the one dong the work to stop it right ?
Absolutely, of course this isn’t likely to happen, but you’re right.
Gosh, you are realy easly annoyed. This is useful information when someone announces their interrupts or CC. […] Of course he can also do the work to stop it, but he doesn’t want to and it doesn’t annoy him. It annoys you so you can block all the chat messages from being displayed.
To be fair, this is a rather obnoxious phenomenon that has been getting worse and worse over the years and i absolutely hate it as well. There is absolutely no benefit to auto-broadcasting all your significant actions such as interupts/cc over chat and frankly everyone who does this by default in groups with random people is quite objectively acting badly:
Players who are interested in seeing this information can install such addons themselves, where it will show such information (about all players, not just for their own actions) either in the chatbox, in SCT, on the nameplates or where ever else they’d like. Infact i think the details damagemeter that many people use has this feature build in as well.
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It pollutes/destroys the chat feature. Obviously most players who use addons like this often rely on third party voicecomms as their primary communication channel, and if that’s the case for the whole group (such as in guildraids) then fair enough. However as someone who often finds himself leading a dungeon- or raidgroup where most (but not all) players are on voicecomms, i like to use subtle soundeffects (ping!) whenever one of the pugs says something in groupchat so that it doesn’t get overlooked, the addons in question absolutely ruin that ability by either driving me nuts with 10 false positive pings on every trashpull or forcing me to turn that sound off and risking pugs feeling (legitimately) ignored when they unexpectedly say “wait a sec, doorbell” a few seconds before the rest of us kick off another chainpull. That is to say nothing of the rare occasions where i find myself in a meaningful group without any voicecomms, where the chatbox is the primary mode of the communications. In such situations i often opt to tell the person to turn it off, or remove them from the group.
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It violates rule #3 of the Blizzard Add-On Policy, not that this seems to be very actively enforced, but these types of addons are amongst the worst offenders there. https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/1021053914
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Stopping this addon spam is a much harder job on the receiving end than on the sender’s side. The user of the spam addon can simply let it show the info in his own chatbox instead of sending it through the channel (easy: done). For a receiver to stop the spam he has to either /ignore or filter out the spammer entirely (which has many obvious undesirable side effects) or use addons which filter chat based on pattern matching. Such antispam addons are never 100% effective (as there are dozens of spam addons that all use slightly different texts, not to mention different client languages, etc)
I don’t disagree, but at the end of the day wow is an MMORPG and its behavior isn’t that out of place with that in mind.
Personally i don’t care very much one way or the other however for the specific case of repeat achievements (getting achievements on an alt that your main already had unlocked), it is quite excessively spammy when you take one (or multiple) of your neglected alts through some old raid and get a few dozen achievements in 5 minutes.
Nope, no privacy at all when it comes to announcing achievements whether you’re in guild, party/raid and unlike yell and say it has no proximity.
I would add to that, that when you earn an achievement, in addition to your guild members, anyone within a certain proximity (regardless of group or even faction) does also get notified. However i am unsure about the range, maybe 40 yards, no idea.