The New Chat Restriction in The Feast

[Myon88]

Is there some reason you guys can't simply move to 4v4 fixed party Feast if you want real high level play with voice comms (which are mandatory for optimal performance anyway)? Like any game with both solo and premade queues, the solution to problems in solo is to queue premade so you can control who you're teamed up with. It's really no different in other games - you have people turning off their chat or muting their team in advance, even muting incoming voice comms even if it's a default feature.

If there aren't enough players to support a fixed party ladder, that's a problem the playerbase has to solve itself. And for all you know, a more hospitable solo queue experience will incentivize more people to stick with the mode and graduate into serious players.

A lot of you are also overlooking the fact that this change affects both teams equally. Perhaps you'll simply have to adapt to the new communication metagame where you'll have to assume people will kind of do their own things at times. I suspect macros are a placebo for some of you anyway - there's no reason to assume that someone new to PvP has the presence of mind to parse the contents of their chatlog while in battle - especially if they're already struggling in the first place, coupled with the fact that PvP is far more demanding of attention than most raid encounters.