Off-game chat?

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I close the game so I can do other things on my computer without lag, (netflix, etc) keeping the game open isn't really an option at the moment, I'll just have to deal with missing shouts.

Short time solution would be to get a console version. I bet some of the older expansions collections are pretty cheap. ^^ Even if don't have ALL expansions can just use it as a /tell if you're watching shouts on PC through FFXIAH or what have you.Then can log on PC.