I think it's good to confirm that both sides are interested in doing the activity that the party is being created for.

Whenever I get a party invite out of nowhere, I would message the person and ask what the party is for. Throwing party invites before talking isn't rude, but it makes things unclear.

I think it is rude to just invite someone. I mean if we compare it with say asking someone if they wanna have dinner with you.
Or just slamming the food infront of them and with a bargaric voice going EAT FOOD GOOD xD

Its common courtesy to ask first!

Originally posted by DarkPony

Hehe, you should know that random, unsollicited invites are considered to be very annoying by most people :)

Especially by grumpy oldies like me; we have a hard time coping with youthfull enthousiasm I guess.

or selling game money. think these gold farming days we are living with you need to whisper your intention first not just blind folded invite people.

Sometimes you don't have time to type a message, so it's just easier just invite someone. I try to ask if there is time, but I such a slow typer most the time is better to shoot the invite off.

Originally posted by m0lly

Originally posted by DarkPony

Hehe, you should know that random, unsollicited invites are considered to be very annoying by most people :)

Especially by grumpy oldies like me; we have a hard time coping with youthfull enthousiasm I guess.

or selling game money. think these gold farming days we are living with you need to whisper your intention first not just blind folded invite people.

Good point. I rolled a new toon in WOW a few months ago just for kicks and was hit up to group time and again. After refusing a few as i normlly do i got to thinking, well maybe the guy is new and just doesnt know how to do something so i joined the next one and low and behold he was having a blow out sale on in game gold :):) So i went back to refusing blind invites.

Well I can agree on a random invite on a person killing a mob you need for a quest aswell and after say hey =) can we do the quest together? Something like that is just fine ^^

Originally posted by Ilvion

Well I can agree on a random invite on a person killing a mob you need for a quest aswell and after say hey =) can we do the quest together? Something like that is just fine ^^

Yep.  If a person takes two seconds to write me a quick whisper asking if I want to team up, even if I'm not doing that quest or busy, 90% of the time the answer is going to be "yes."  I play these games more to meet people and team up to explore the game world/story together, but I want to meet people who take a little bit of time before they act because it shows me they will likely prove a good teammate in game.

If the person is too impatient to even say "hey, are you doing quest X... and even if you aren't, wanna team up anyway?"... well, I tend to assume that they are impatient about other things.  The kind of things that get you killed, or at the very least, waste both of our time.  Coming from FFXI, a game with a death penalty that meant a little more than the inconvenience of getting sent back to your bind/home point, I learned to play with the person who looks before they leap.  That's a necessity when you are a poor, helpless Taru WHM so frail and vulnerable that one careless party member almost always meant your would die.

And OP, I actually think your 200 random invites is kinda cool, if only for the sheer enthusiasm value.  It's not too shabby that you even found two fellow gamers to play with now out of it.  And you can be sure that you're a chill group of players, at least a lot more chill than some of the older crackpots like me. ^_^

P.S.  I also am feeling a lot of enthusiasm for Aion.  I won't go as far as to call it perfect, especially in certain areas (obvious example = simplistic AI).  Don't quite love it, but really getting bummed and regretting that we have to wait again until we can play.  I better get busy, still plenty of quests and playing to do before they shut the server down... So sad. ( T.T)

Why not just release the game early NCSOFT? Puh-leaz~!