Quote Originally Posted by Stoi View Post
An exchange means something is asked and something is delivered, there are at least 2 persons involved in an exchange and you should not involve people who don't want to. Yelling on global channels what you found without knowing if anyone else wants the information is not something I would call exchange at all. At best it's spreading information, at worst it's spam and/or spoilers, and it's most likely to interfere with others experience because no one asked for this.

Private messages and parties exist for a reason, they keep your talk to the concerned people. When someone is asking you something, do you go in the middle of the street and yell the answer so that everyone can hear it? I believe not.

I'm not saying that the players should not share information. They simply should do it with other players that are asking for this, and thus not use the global chat channels.
Did you turn off Alliance chat in your first Orbonne run so people didn't spoil mechanics for you?