ANet, why are you sending the Champions announcement email to my level 3 alt?

[TheAgedGnome.7520]

I have 19 characters, 16 of them are level 80 and the other 3 are level 2 or 3 alts. Why, ANet, are you sending the Champions email to my level 3 alt with a /age of 58 minutes?

A trivial gripe, to be sure, but c'mon, its not that hard to write a decent SQL query.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Emails are addressed to the last logged in character, I believe.I'm guessing the important part to NCSoft/ArenaNet is that the emails are sent to the account; it doesn't really matter which character is named. They didn't even use names, previously.

[TheAgedGnome.7520]

@"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:Emails are addressed to the last logged in character, I believe.

It seems to me that it wouldn't be difficult to write even a slightly more involved query than "SELECT TOP1 LAST_LOGGED_IN FROM...."

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

And if the email concerns something for low-level characters?
Write a different script? Why bother? It's such a minor thing.

Regardless, good luck on your suggestion.

[Danikat.8537]

Addressing the email to a character still seems weird to me.

It's not as strange if it uses my main character's name, but only because I've used her name as an online pseudonym several times (Danikat is actually a mash up of both our names) so I've periodically gotten emails addressed to her for years. With anyone else my first reaction is "Why are you using my email address? Why are you getting email at all?" =)

It makes sense with in-game mail, but I think the fact that the email is otherwise out-of-universe marketing for the update makes addressing it to the character seem out of place. Especially when it's coming to my email address, not theirs.

[Ashen.2907]

I thought that the NPE removed the ability to open and read e-mail from characters under level 20?

[Sobx.1758]

@TheAgedGnome.7520 said:

@"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:Emails are addressed to the last logged in character, I believe.

It seems to me that it wouldn't be difficult to write even a slightly more involved query than "SELECT TOP1 LAST_LOGGED_IN FROM...."

It doesn't matter what level your character is, it matters that it's the same account and that's the character you've decided to log into after the patch. It's an information for the player about the new content accessibility. Character's age is irrelevant and I don't think it should be relevant, because it's information for you, not for the specific character.

A trivial gripe, to be sure

True.

[DeanBB.4268]

How about, "Why are you notifying my core-only accounts that this content is available?"

I have no plans to ever upgrade my extra accounts.

Yeah, I know the answer is, "Because I signed up to receive notifications."

[Danikat.8537]

@"DeanBB.4268" said:How about, "Why are you notifying my core-only accounts that this content is available?"

I have no plans to ever upgrade my extra accounts.

Yeah, I know the answer is, "Because I signed up to receive notifications."

Yeah it's probably a combination of it being easier to send the same updates to everyone and hoping something in the emails will persuade people they want to play the new content enough to upgrade. Of course that's unlikely to happen when it's a second account.

(I'm also signed up twice, I'm not entirely sure why, but at least I didn't sign my free account up as well.)