No I’m saying if you ever had threats on your life in this game even just once, you might not want to interact with this game’s community anymore, either. That is an experience people have had that might make them just want to completely check out from interacting with other people in this game, including using this feature.
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Nobody should ever have to deal with harassment or threats. But that’s exactly why Blizzard put its Code of Conduct and Social Contract in place.
The Code of Conduct explicitly forbids “threatening or harassing another player,” and “conduct intended to disrupt or diminish the game experience for other players.”
It also empowers players to use tools like Ignore and Report Player to block contact from anyone who behaves inappropriately.
So the real issue isn’t the Recent Allies feature itself—it’s how people use it. If someone abuses it to harass others, that’s already a direct violation of Blizzard’s rules and can be handled through existing systems.
But removing or crippling a social feature meant to encourage healthy connections in a multiplayer game would punish everyone for the actions of a few bad players.
I see a lot potential with this feature.
For harassment.
Where is my ignore list now??? And expanded over 50 players? Make it battle.net wide!
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I am alliance. Tell me how I can harass you if I want to.
Assuming I sent you an invite and you declined.
Let’s assume we both are on the same server.
My guildies pointed this out the other night. Hate it, hope blizz wises up and removes it. The social to hide your location isn’t enough, it should have never been put in the first place.
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Why would I tell you how to harass people.
That’s wrong.
I was curious how you would do with, a feature that has very few options in ways you can interact.
Agreed. I at least want an opt out.
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Players would prefer an opt-out, and that’s fair feedback — Blizzard could easily add that as a QoL option.
But that doesn’t make the feature itself bad or “invasive.” Wanting personal settings is one thing; claiming the entire system shouldn’t exist is another.
This thread started about the feature being “creepy” or “stalkery,” but now it’s just about wanting more control — and that’s a different and it is reasonable to ask that.
Again I don’t see how they can implement this and see a reason why they would when he have strict social contacts in place to protect players from abuse.
its a console feature. everything new coming and everything being removed like addons and pruning, all of it is to get wow on consoles
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Guild wars 2 has a system like this as well, That even if you remove them from your friends if they added you they are on the followers list, Same if you ignore them they appear on it. Its a stupid system and now Wow has recent allies which means even if you never interacted if you did anything with said people they are on the list.
Just wait until housing and the moonguard brothels appear. People will be on that list even though you dont want them to be.
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That’s not really an accurate comparison to Guild Wars 2’s system. Their follower list is persistent and one-sided; Recent Allies is temporary and context-based. It doesn’t track you indefinitely or maintain visibility once the interaction period passes.
What Blizzard needs to improve isn’t privacy — it’s functionality. The tracking seems delayed; for example, when I finish a dungeon, those players often don’t appear until a few hours later or after more runs. It’s inconsistent, which makes it hard to add someone right away after a good experience.
If Blizzard refines that timing and maybe adds an optional opt-out, it would serve both social and privacy-focused players much better.
Honestly a optional opt out is the best option, After all I have option to add someone to friends list, So why not have a option to be added to recent allies.
But also a bit off topic, i would much rather have the colors they use to show recent allies to be shown for guild members as I rather know if a guild member is nearby than some random I met in a BG or a dungon or a raid.
As you can be in a city and not know your guild members are in the same area unless you check the list but even so it would be nice if their name changes to a different color
Logged in for a minute this morning to check something.
Saw three characters in Dornagal who were added to this list, and I have no idea who any of them were, and I’d never interacted with them that I recall.
And I’m on their lists too.
And right now, there’s nothing I can do about that.
This seriously makes me question logging in or playing at all.
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So just to clarify — you saw a few random characters show up on a temporary list after being in the same zone, and that alone makes you question playing?
Prot, did you miss where I put you on ignore. I can see that you are still trying to troll, but not what you are saying.
Here is something I would like it get fixed.
Last night i playedwith some real good players.
I was able to pin 3 players. Which is fantastic, I messaged them later. I was able to know when their runs complete.
But then there was a horde Druid in my list that I could not invite. It said target is unfriendly. Now I’m not sure if I was able to message him because no error showed up but why is he in my list if I cannot have any interaction with him?
LOL right?
And why is my entire guild on this list? 
While this new “feature” should have settings to opt out entirely, to edit your own list, to force your name off another’s list, etc…
For those who are turning off the location tracking, note that this is per character, not per account… so on every character, you have to go to…
ESC
Options
Social
Location tracking – change this to turn off recent allies
You have to do this for every character separately, one at a time.
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So don’t think they would spend extra resources for this ?
You are asking to stay invisible ?