Please do not turn off your chat in dungeons

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Originally Posted by AsahinaMyLove

>XP You cant expect a hallo from me!
I find it strange greeting foreign people, living around the world!
Or do you greet foreign people on the street in a city you never was before? o-o; I dont!

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I think you would, if you want to team up with those foreign people to do things like... fighting the evil mayor or sealing the city-haunting demon, don't you think so too?

I think it's common to greet ppl, who do right now the same thing at the same place to achieve the same goal by working together, don't you agree?

Here it's even common to greet ppl e.g. in waiting room at the doctors. Or to greet ppl, working in the same company (even if there are 1000s of ppl working) just by saying "Hello" at least when passing by.

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Originally Posted by Ferrasper

I never understood why people don't talk in dungeons.[...]

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I always say hello at the start and give my thanks at the end, but I can fully understand why people aren't very chatty during the dungeon as a whole. Games with fast-paced, busy combat like FFXIV don't really give a lot of leeway for casual conversation when you're in the middle of fighting something and you're almost always fighting something in a duty. It varies by class and role, but generally if you have time to sit there and type out coherent sentences that don't have anything to do with mechanics there's probably something else you could be doing to perform your role better. I personally find it irritating when people start screwing up a lot and prolonging the run because they're too busy being Chatty Cathy instead of paying proper attention.

That and people don't usually have anything interesting to say anyway.

There would likely be a lot more people paying attention to party chat in dungeons if there were a lot less people filling up the chat box with useless, annoying call outs macroed into each and every action they take.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Takes forever to type with a ps controler

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It doesn't take long to press the center pad, X, Triangle, then press "h" and "i" on the soft keyboard. You can do it while on the black loading screen before the dungeon. Alternately, you can make a macro in probably a minute or two that says whatever greeting you want to say, and hit that on entering the dungeon. Or, press options, left, left, emotes, and emote whatever you'd like as a greeting. Dishing out full sentences is one thing, but being polite is not out of reach for any PS4 player.

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Originally Posted by Felis

still not a good reason to turn off the chat. You don't need to be social to read important informations.
Good players can ignore everything that is not important without turning off the chat.

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Unless it's an EX Primal or Alexander savage, you can pretty much get away with no chat on everything else.