Major! Chat is silently dropping specific strings regardless of sender or channel!

This is a major issue!

If anyone tries sending the following text string, it will silently fail regardless of if they use /party, /say, /tell, FC chat, et cetera:

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"I love you, pumpkin! How could you even ask such a thing! I love you so, so much! I always will! Forever!" She throws her arms around Missy, practically dragging the pair of them into the water.

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However, if I change just one word, it works fine:

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"I heart you, pumpkin! How could you even ask such a thing! I love you so, so much! I always will! Forever!" She throws her arms around Missy, practically dragging the pair of them into the water

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This has completely wrecked my ability to play the game as I have no idea if my messages are getting to the other end or not. I've had several people reproduce this error with the above strings.

Here's another string known not to work if you need more data—please excuse the typo:

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War is sometimes necessary, Pepper! What if pirates declare war on your first! Or if dragons roast all the fish you just caught! Or... or if someone threatens to throw you in a cell for hugging which is NOT okay because I was just being nice and he really didn't have to be so mean to me!

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Please do whatever you can to elevate this issue! Your chat system is very, very broken as of the latest patch!

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Frequency: Always reproducible
World name: Balmung
Character name: Any
Party or solo: Any
Area and coordinates: Any
Steps:
1. Send the following text string via /tell, /say, et cetera: "I love you, pumpkin! How could you even ask such a thing! I love you so, so much! I always will! Forever!" She throws her arms around Aia, practically dragging the pair of them into the water.
2. Have someone else confirm that it was NOT received.

I just wanted to bump this while making it clear this seems to affect many, many long strings. Numerous role-playing sessions have already been ruined because of this bug—five or more minutes of silence go by until we eventually figure out a message was dropped—and the randomness of it makes it all the more insidious.

It's likely specific words. Like "love," apparently.

there can't be no love

Is this with the profanity filter on or off? I know it would only replace the word with **** but just out of curiosity ...

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Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

It's likely specific words. Like "love," apparently.

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No, it's not that. You can send a message that's just the word "love" ten times and it'll work fine.

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Originally Posted by HEC

Is this with the profanity filter on or off?

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I always have it off.

I can confirm this issue is still happening after the most recent maintenance.

Yeah, I've had it happen on both wall of text entries and short and sweet ones. At first I thought it was just a character limit issue since I'm rather verbose at times, but it's not, or at least not that alone.

Is this occurring with the /em function, too? My FC leader was having the issue of his emotes just up and vanishing, but we figured it was a text limit. Guess not.