So I thought it would be a fantastic idea to wrap a bunch of random stuff and place it in the guild bank for guildies during the Love is in the Air event, but I just learned (after buying and wrapping a bunch of stuff) that I cannot place wrapped items in the mail. No worries, I guess I can spend the next couple of hours typing out individual names and mailing gifts to them.
But wait, there’s more!
“You have reached the in-game cap of unique mail recipients”
What? Seriously? I guess maybe you’re trying to prevent spam, but these are guildmates and friends I’m sending mail to, and I can’t put these gifts in the guild bank, and I can’t sit around waiting for people to log on to trade them gifts in person. Also, the mail block appears to be account-wide, so I can’t trade them to myself and mail them from an alt, and I can’t even mail stuff to my own alts now.
What’s going on, Blizzard? You saw we were having fun and just had to squash it? What’s the meaning behind preventing us from filling the guild bank with wrapped gifts, or blocking us from mailing things to our friends and guildmates?
Might have something to do with the people who years ago mailed blacksmithing supplies cash on delivery through the mail inside wrapping paper to scam people?
Well, I don’t know all of the particulars, but I would imagine the guild bank thing might have something to do with gambling as well.
Pay me gold and you get to pick 1 random item from the guild bank! Could be a mount, could be a bear carcass. Then at he end it was a scam because they were all bear carcasses.
The bear community doesn’t need that.
Jokes aside, I can imagine people would take wrapping paper and use it for evil deeds so that might have something to do with it? Not sure.
You can still wrap worthless items and mail them to people, so I don’t think that’s it, unless they’re trying to reduce the number of people who receive wrapped junk in the mail. I feel like a better solution would be to have a warning pop up advising users not to pay for COD items that are wrapped, similar to how sending items/cash to non-friends and non-guildies triggers a warning popup
Maybe, but it only takes so many scams before that guild leader will be banned, and for all his members to leave. We can still gamble this way, users can shout in town about wrapped packages for 1 gold and just delete the alt once they’re done scamming people. But if the reason really is to prevent gambling, I think it’s a shame to punish the whole community for the behavior of just a few individuals.
But if Blizzard removes everything that people use to scam players, there won’t be anything left in the game. Scammers use chats, guilds, parties, loot, their keyboards, etc to scam people, and if it was the wrapping paper’s fault, I think Blizzard would have removed it from the game (I really hope they don’t).
Just how many people were you trying to send mail to? Curious what the cap is.
It’s probably to cut down on server congestion, lord knows my mail box is the least responsive thing in the game. Only other thing that’s almost as slow is when I access my guild bank.
It must have been recent because I frequently mail things to guildmates, friends, and alts without ever triggering the mail block. The situation is frustrating because now I don’t have any options other than to hand wrapped packages to people in person, which is far too time consuming. I’m not even online at the same time, and even if I could arrange something like a meetup or guild event, there’s bound to be schedule conflicts. I don’t want people to abuse the mail, but there should be a way for guildies to send out group mail or something to make up for it
Wrapping paper did offer a lot of space for scamming unfortunately, though if anyone tried to buy something and was put a wrapped present in the trade window instead of said item and still hit accept, it becomes the buyer fault for being gullible.
Unfortunate about the guild bank part since you can’t play secret santa with that.
Unique mail count is definitely to prevent spam mail to everyone from bots, like you still get whisper from ‘Blizzards’ attempts to phish. Surely they can tighten the limitations of newer created characters to prevent this.
Not sure why you have so many presents to give out, but trading presents face to face to friends or strangers is still the way to go.
Well, I remember not this past Christmas but the one before. I sent those fruit cakes to guildeis and it happened to me. So at the very least about a couple of years ago that I can confirm with any certainty.
I don’t typically have a slow or unresponsive mailbox unless I have an addon that needs updating, maybe it depends on the server. I mailed out about ten packages before it blocked me, but I don’t know what the timeframe is. If it goes back more than an hour, I sent several things to alts and did some banking as well before mailing out the packages.
That makes some sense, but then why not put the restrictions on characters below level 50 or something? Usually the RMT sellers are level 1 or 2 (unless maybe they’re on a hacked account? But even then Blizzard could just require phone SMS authenticators or something else to protect the players and stop the scammers)
That makes some sense, but then why not put the restrictions on characters below level 50 or something? Usually the RMT sellers are level 1 or 2 (unless maybe they’re on a hacked account? But even then Blizzard could just require phone SMS authenticators or something else to protect the players and stop the scammers)
I dont know. Ask them. By the way these scammers are often normal players out to make gold any way they can. Word of mouth says an entire guild was censured heavily for running scams…so it isnt all under level 50 either.
OCE side was a guild running gambling under and over…they were dealt with recently.
The other reason for the cap may simply be to prevent mass mail spam.
I know scammers come in all forms, but usually the ones I see are the low lvl ones spamming chats to people. I have no doubt that an entire guild would scam players, but at the same time there’s no way to force a player to get scammed with a wrapped package. If someone is charging you thousands of gold for a wrapped box, then don’t accept the trade. I feel like there should be some responsibility put on the players not to do totally stupid things. Advertising gambling might be against the rules, but what about the players who willingly gamble and go along with it? They can’t honestly think that gambling will work out in their favor, how are they being scammed? I’m not arguing that gambling is okay, but it takes two to gamble. The player being “scammed” most likely knows what they’re getting into in that kind of situation. Sort of like how the unclaimed loot boxes work on the black market auction house, you could get something completely worthless.
No “might” about it. It is. And please dont ask me for a source. Its a fact.
They can’t honestly think that gambling will work out in their favor, how are they being scammed?
Las Vegas?
. Sort of like how the unclaimed loot boxes work on the black market auction house, you could get something completely worthless.
They arent. And thats controlled by BLIZZARD, not by players. BIG difference.
BTW, gambllng can become an addiction. It can become habitual. it can be that “pot of gold at the end of a rainbow” that people have been chasing forever.
Thats why scammers use it. Thats the behaviour and conduct Blizzard wants to put a stop to.
I know advertising gambling is against the rules, I don’t need a source.
I know people are addicted to it, and that’s why Las Vegas (and many other places) do so well. But drinking is also an addiction and you can get drunk all you want in WoW. I know it’s not the same, because people aren’t going to get anything out of drinking in-game like they would with in-game gambling, but still I don’t see why a gambling addiction would have anything to do with sending mail to my guildmates. If Blizzard was really concerned about addictions, they would do something about their contribution to online gaming addictions
Maybe I’m the only person who is bothered by the limitations of gift wrapped packages, but it was the little things like gift wrap that made me love the game. Over the years I’ve seen fun little things that didn’t matter get taken away, and it’s sort of dispelling the magic for me.
