Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post
Have you forgotten what even started this thread? Far more people have spoken out against this than for it. If the opposite were true, the responses following this would be a lot more supportive and favorable, wouldn't you agree?
Sorry, but not really, no. People don't generally comment on things they're happy with. Just ask any customer services desk how many compliments they get compared to the number of complaints.

Those that have created posts saying how they like they removal of chat have been met with nothing but hostility and it's hardly incentive for other people to post the same.

The majority of players don't even come to the official forums though, let alone post on them.

At the time of writing, the post about the chat removal in the questions for the Live Letter thread has only 56 likes (and this is after having a thread created just to promote it) and I don't wish to cause any (more?) offence, but I don't think the hardcore PvP community is as big as people seem to think it is. I have no doubt it's at least in the hundreds, per datacenter, but how many people are actually playing this game? Hundreds of thousands?

Whilst PvP is fun, we need to remember that PvP is essentially a bolt-on to a PvE game. It is not the primary game mode here so naturally Square Enix is going to want to make it as appealing as possible to the majority of players. They also don't want to spend their time, resources and money (staff wages!) policing any more than they have to. It's not in their interests to ban players either so this gets around that for them too as no one can get in trouble any more.

And for the record, I've also been frustrated with the lack of chat and unable to convey my thoughts, but it feels a much more enjoyable experience than it did before, so personally I'm happier with it as it is now, but more phrases being added would be good. Heck if we could string sentences together using the auto translate that'd be nice, although I'm sure that'd probably get abused too.