Currently the permissions you can give is: Neighbors, Guild, Friends, Party.
Problem is that if you give a guild permission, for example, and you have alts in multiple guilds, then all guild members of all guilds can enter your house.
It would be best to be able to limit it for specific guilds, or specific bnet friends.
I wouldn’t feel I can personalize my house if people can enter without permission. but I do want family members who play wow, or specific good friends, to be able to enter, limited by specific list.
So I think it’s a feature that pretty much is a must for some of us.
It feels like a good solution to this would be to give us the option to only allow visitors from our friends list that are listed as favorites. Thus allowing us to choose which friends that would be allowed in our houses.
Myself I use favorites as to see people I need to see or contact faster day to day, but not all of them I want to visit my house though. I think there is need for a more specific house permission that do not share another already exists feature, to be honest.
Blizzard HAS TO give us more customizable privacy controls with housing. I want only close friends to be able to visit, without a requirement for party, but when I allow all bnet friends which include people that I’m not necessarily close with, I risk privacy breach. Especially for roleplay and whatnot. Given that I’m from Argent Dawn and people often track alts, etc. for their stupid blacklists, gossips and whatnot, I don’t want to allow people that I’m not really close to and reveal my friends’ alts to them. Current system basically encourages a logic like “If you don’t trust this person fully but happen to enjoy doing certain content with them, just remove them from your bnet friends”
I just realized that Endeavors completely disregard privacy.
Imagine sharing a neighborhood with someone you’ve blocked on Battle .net or ignored by battletag—they can still keep tabs on you through the Endeavors tab, look up your character names on the Armory, track your alts… basically, target you at will.
I can’t help but wonder if Blizzard ever considers player safety— protection from unwarranted attention, stalking, harassment, etc. Even the mere possibility of being watched can be enough to push someone over the edge.
I have trouble to understand this need to block entry for your house. You created a vision of your character’s accomodation. Why do you want to limit the possibility for people to check it out?
I’m even more confused with the plot permission, literally why are you having a house in a neighborhood if the whole idea is that you want all foreign object to get the hell out of dodge?
As a visitor, we can only interact with was is implemented, we cannot move/re-arrange your build, so unless you RP 24/7 then why limit entry?
What annoys me the most with these permissions is not that they are there but getting the annoying ‘you’re trespassing’ notion whenever I’m flying over a house I need to fly over to reach a certain point. I hope they will change that by decreasing the area that is dedicated for ‘trespassing’ so you don’t get that message all the time.
Getting the trespassing notion when I’m not is not very contributing to that neighborhood feeling.
Are you building a torture dungeon or why would you want to limit only to specific friends or guilds? I think the privacy options are already very generous and detailed. Maybe don’t be friends with people you don’t want in your house then? Also why would you share neighbourhood with someone you don’t like? If you are so concerned about Armory things, you surely know you can opt out from showing up in APIs, making your data invisible basically (Battle Net- Privacy and Customization).
You also have the option to change permissions any time you want. Maybe just lock down your house and change it to Allow Party when the people are there with you? There has to be a balance between customization and complexity of a feature and your suggestions definitely feel like crossing that line.
I don’t know if these requests come from Paranoia or some real-life bad experiences but a house should be a piece of self-expression that we are happy to share with the world. I love to discover other people’s creation and it’s a bit sad when people lock down their houses to be honest.
Having said options would not prevent anyone from self expression and showcasing their creativity if that’s what they want, but simply protect those who don’t wish to be monitored by certain people.
I don’t understand why my alts’ names have to appear on Endeavor interface as I complete activities. Could at least be limited to the house owner character’s name. I don’t understand why I have to leave a neighborhood because of that 1 person I don’t wish to share space with while there are 10 others that I’m happy to call friends.
I feel like these commenters who whine about their limited access to other people’s personal space are the reason why we definitely need more privacy filters.
Some people don’t understand/interested in the meaning of personal boundaries for other people, and there is no point trying to explain it to them.
But a responsible game creators needs to enforce the meaning for boundaries, to protect those who do need it, from those who are not able to understand it.
I believe everyone has their own requirements. For some, privacy is a must and want to have full control of it. For some, just leave it open to anyone. And both are correct. We’re individuals and, as such, with our own style and wishes.
One solution, for me, would be just include one more option in the permission list:
Neighbours, Guild, Friends, Party, Specific and this Specific could be guild names, char names or bnet ids.
And we already have the ignore list, so it’s be possible to allow guilds but restrict someone from that guild if you don’t like this person.
Ignore list is very limited, after you add several trade chat spammers you can’t add anyone else (well, in not full realms, where you can actually block some spammers to have some silence).
And I think you miss the point. Many people don’t want to restrict “someone from one of their alts guild”, but to restrict everyone except for their own personal “friends and family” guild for example.
Some of us have lot of alts in many guilds, and the current restriction options just make it so the only option we have is to block our house to everyone and that’s it. and that’s sad, because we DO want people to be able to visit, just not all people.
It’s important to remember that if you like to do things in a certain way, you can still respect the choice of other people to do it in a different way.
But I was agreeing with you… Did you read my full text? I said it’d be good to include an option in the permission list, the specific…
So everyone would be contemplated. If you wanna include all guild but exclude someone, you can use the ignore list. If you wanna include only a few people form the guild, you could use the new Specific permission.
I didn’t say that the ignore list is enough. It’s just a tool that we already have.
Read about the next update. The trespassing message will be altered so it’s a bit more friendly which is very welcome. I won’t feel like a criminal anymore when I’m just flying over a locked plot.
