if you want to invite me to party, ASK ME first.

If we're all standing around waiting on a spawn that we have to kill, just invite me already. I've had several groups that have formed, killed the mob and disbanded without so much as a word.

EDIT: I suppose after all of the discussion that has happened on this thread, I should probably temper my original post with a bit of humility. Yes, humility because I am grateful for all of the feedback and the fact that I have come to understand something of the other way of thinking.

Also, let me qualify this for any new readers who stumble upon this thread: I DO NOT have a problem with blind invites in the case where it is OBVIOUS everyone in the immediate area is waiting for the same objective.



I have taken the liberty to circumvent the obvious retorts to my post with the following hypothetical questions:

"If you don't wanna be invited to groups, you should just go play a single-player game."

No. I don't mind being invited to groups. What I do mind is someone inviting me to party without showing me the courtesy of ASKING me first if I wish to party with them. Inviting without a word is not the same as asking.

"Turn on auto-decline group invites if you are such an anti-social person. Gawd, it's an MMO, people group to do stuff."

I love to group with people in order to meet a common objective. In fact, I am usually quite enthusiastic to party up with other players...provided they are willing to behave in a social manner themselves by being POLITE. It's RUDE to ninja-invite. Is it so hard to WHISPER someone and ask them if they even WANT to do the same thing you are doing?

And incidentally, I HAVE toggled auto-decline after today...didn't even know it was an option till my husband showed me. It cheeses me off that I have to and that people are so socially stunted that they can't be bothered to ASK first.

I'm all for efficiency. But when someone just spams me with his party invite without any regard to what I may be doing, it just makes me NOT want to party with him on principle alone. Like, even if I do want to do the same thing he wants to do, Saving Face, Personal Challenge, whatever....if he sends an invite without asking first, it's a forgone conclusion that I will NOT group with that person.

LOL! "Mommy said NO MORE WIRE COAT HANGERS!!!!!"

ZOT!

This X 1000. Really, people, is it so hard to try to see the other person's point of view?

There are people who have a different view than mine, and I'm not going to post that I don't care. Because I do, in fact, care. Even if we disagree, the fact that we can expend a tiny bit of energy respecting each other can help compensate for our differences.

Wow...old reference....trying to remember the name of the movie now.