Global Chat

[Coldbrand]

I sure as HELL don't want Global Chat. PLEASE don't give idiots a place for their drama and bigotry and ignorance or the RMT a place to spam or morons a place to troll. If you put it in you're at a severe handicap not using it and thus I'd have no choice but to use it every now and then. I'm really not up for having to deal with this WoW kiddie crap.

[normalforce]

No Global Chat. Don't need it don't want it. Optional or not. NO!

Why not? What is it about global chat that you don't like? Are you referring to a global chat where everyone gets the messages instead of the limited range of /shout or /say? Could it be something that you opt into and split apart a broad range interests? Would you still be opposed to that?

Global chat is a nightmare. It will also increase the amount of GM petitions with, "So-and-so called me a bad word!", or "Someone was making fun of this [race/gender/sexual orientation/kitty cat] and that offends me!"

Yeah, that sounds real nice.

Are you viewing global chat is something that anyone can just logging and spam /all LALALALALALALALALA with everyone in the world getting? Because that system can easily be abused and would be quickly annoy everyone ingame. It's also not the type of global channel that I would like to see them implement.

[MeowyWowie]

Also against global chat. To those saying it adds to the sense of community, FFXI's community was great and didn't have or need global chat. I just see a whole bunch of nonsense being spammed in it, hardly the side of the community I would like to see on a daily basis.

And no, toggle option doesn't help either. Let's say I have it toggled off and someone is shouting for something I need or am trying to sell in global chat, I would never see it.

FFXI's chat worked perfectly fine, there was still spam but not an entire server worth of it. Please do not add this. There's FAR more important issues.

[normalforce]

I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.

Yes, yes, a million times yes. +1 to this. Talking in all of your linkshells should be as simple as this. Even /switch 2 would be preferable to what we currently have to do to talk in another linkshell.

[Tibian]

Also against global chat. To those saying it adds to the sense of community, FFXI's community was great and didn't have or need global chat.

That is why in XI I could stand with LFP flag open for several hours before I got a party...

Such a sense of community.

Also to those who want multiple linkshell chats. It is a nice feature, but then everyone would just end up being in every linkshell. Defeats any purpose really. When or if future content comes it would also blur the line of who gets to participate and who doesn't. I don't see it being effective, but its not something I'd write off as useless either.

[Gath]

The shout chatting in XI in Jueno was pretty clean and actually fun to chatter in, as well as when the masses moved to WG. People really didn't spam useless bull, at least on my server they didn't. I would like a GC as long as people kept it clean like in XI....but it might not happen with the people in this community.

[MeowyWowie]

That is why in XI I could stand with LFP flag open for several hours before I got a party...

Such a sense of community.

What does that have to do with sense of community? And how would global chat help you in that position?

All global chat would do would add more "DD looking for party" spam, while there's still no one looking for whatever job you were. No one said the party recruitment system was perfect, and that's hardly what's being discussed here.

[normalforce]

FFXI's chat worked perfectly fine, there was still spam but not an entire server worth of it. Please do not add this. There's FAR more important issues.

FFXI's chat system was acceptable but could have been a lot better.

And I don't think anyone is saying that there aren't more important issues. But the thing is, changes don't come quickly or easily. If they see this as something that people are interested in, they can start planning it out, fit it into the queue and maybe have something ready later on.

[Tibian]

I sure as HELL don't want Global Chat. PLEASE don't give idiots a place for their drama and bigotry and ignorance or the RMT a place to spam or morons a place to troll. If you put it in you're at a severe handicap not using it and thus I'd have no choice but to use it every now and then. I'm really not up for having to deal with this WoW kiddie crap.

Please don't insult people who have differing opinions than you. I am not an idiot or a moron for wanting a feature that you clearly oppose. Maybe you are contributing to the same effect that others find irritating in global chat or even forums like these.

I am not saying sarcasm is out of the question, but please be respectful.

[Rhianu]

FFXI's chat system was actually very, very limited compared to other MMOs. There were virtually no public chat channels at all. The closest thing was /shout, but even that had a horribly limited range (I think it was something like 120 yalms or so, which didn't even cover the entire area of a zone).

If not a Global chat channel, then at the very least there should be city-wide chat-channels. This is an MMO, after all. Communication is essential.