GW Rules on Dropped Items

Not many people know this, but there is a Binded Key to pick up the nearest item to you thats on the ground. You don't even have to press spacebar...just that button. Its LOADS faster than trying to mouse to the item and picking it up.

¸then tell us that key :P

Why do you tease us like this? Please, do tell??? I have wanted that feature for a long time, but unaware of it's existence in this game. If you do not share your secret, I shall be forced to mash my keyboard in all sense of randomness until.... you eventually tell ... And I know it's not Alt-F4...

Back on topic, No rule issue here. When he dropped the item, it stopped belonging to him. Otherwise, Anet would have coded the ownership to remain.

So you were intending to give it back, but when he turned into a demanding swearing jerk you had second thoughts. Understandable, but perhaps you can be the bigger person and carry thru with your first plan.

Tell us what you got! :

There are no rules against it but one time this happened to me (I was player B) and he was bitching the whole time so I finally gave it back. (Was a bow worth about 50-75k at the time)

The drop was 250 ecto

If someone was that foolish in playing around with that then they deserve not getting them back.

Precisely. There is no rule against keeping something that someone else ignorantly dropped. Player B can not get in trouble for Player A's ignorance.

Does anyone in here work for ArenaNet? I cant get in touch with them. I really need an answer on this, this guys is harassing Player B all the time now.

Just tell player B to put their status to offline in the game and go about playing the game. Maybe pm one of the Anet/NCSoft people here on the forum if you havn't already.

You most certainly are not! As I stated in my example, if I have a full inventory during a mission, and have an obviously salvageable drop, like an armor or something, Ill HAVE to drop something to pick it up to salvage it, then pick up dropped item, not losing any space in inventory. I guess you mean I should keep a broken flute to drop when I am in a similar situation.
Thanks Gwen! LOL

Have Player B take a screenshot of the harrassment, then go to support.plaync.com and write up a support ticket explaining the harrassment, and add the screenshot as proof. That will get someone from Anet on the case. Whether they actually do anything to stop it is another matter.

As far as the show-off dropping, I've grabbed someone's drops before, since he was bragging about his stacks of ecto. After the 10th drop of a stack of 250 ecto, I snagged one before he picked it back up. I ended up holding it hostage to get him to behave for the rest of the run. He did get it back once we were finished. I may be a jerk sometimes, but I ain't cruel.

OK thanks for the advise everyone.

And I have raised the issue with ANet, PlayNC etc, still waiting to hear back :-(

Just put each character he uses on ignore list.. or does 1 character ignored ignore all characters on the account??

250 ectos... i wouldnt drop 1k as a joke

thats like 100 bucks or more im not sure??

Well if he gets banned for his harassment ... you get to keep the ectos whether you feel you should return them or not...

What Player A is saying is that Player B will get banned for picking them up

Someone quoted Player B this:

Rule # 1 of Code of Conduct: "While playing Guild Wars, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players."

But according to the definition of Defraud Player B has not done any defrauding.

Definition: To take something from by fraud; swindle

That player A needs to be taught the lesson that you dont play basketball with your items by dribbling them around...second, finders, keepers...possession is 9/10 of the law!!! I applaude player B for the willingness to return the item, but in the face of aggression or lewdness...I think not!!! To bad Player A....better luck next time!!!

Why bother contacting ANet support about it? We aren't incorrect, there is no rule against it. Read them yourself if you don't believe it, Player A can't do anything because he chose to drop the items, therefore he forfeited all ownership over the items to whoever picked them up next, Player B in this case.

I personally would have never thought of returning the said items. Why? Because I'm a jerk? Hardly, because Player A doesn't deserve the items if he was dropping them, for whatever reason he was dropping them, to show off in this case apparently.

Isnt it so that when you drop gold, and then you pick it and your in a party that the party shares the money?

Read the entire thread before posting please...the money was just an example because he didn't want to reveal the real drop, although he did a few posts up...yet I don't believe it.

There are no rules against stupidity in GW. If Player A drops his stuff on the ground, he should be smart enough to know that when he does, he exposes himself to having it taken from him. And if Player A is doing it just to show off, then Player A deserves what he gets.

If Player A leaves a drop on the ground, then he/she should be aware that when it becomes "fair-game" he risks the possibility of someone else picking it up. (IN CASE OF PLAYER A'S DEATH, OTHER PARTY MEMBERS SHOULD RESPECT PLAYER A'S DROPS)

In the mean-time, Player B should make use of his/her ignore list!