Request for Regional Chat

[Gula]

I may be in the minority here (or not, the forums do not reflect all of the actual players) - but I don't want such a channel. I've played many, many MMO's over the years, and every one of these "world chat" channels have devolved into cesspools.

Have you turned on /shout in Limsa? I'd assume not. And you know, you are never obligated to use it. You wouldn't be obligated to use this.

Please, name a chat channel that you are absolutely required to use besides /say. And even still, all it takes is a group of people (you can blacklist any time) to make it into something you don't like.

[Penthea]

Have you turned on /shout in Limsa? I'd assume not. And you know, you are never obligated to use it. You wouldn't be obligated to use this.

Please, name a chat channel that you are absolutely required to use besides /say. And even still, all it takes is a group of people (you can blacklist any time) to make it into something you don't like.

Sure you can leave any chat channel, but there is something to be said about first impressions.

If a new player comes to the game and sees a public chat channel that is, lets say not exactly showing the best face of the game, then that might not give a good impression.

I'm saying this because I have had to warn friends about some public chat channels in other games to assure them that not every player is like the people who frequently use those chats. Many new players would not have someone around to make them aware of this.

That being said FFXIV has a friendlier community than most mmorpgs, but the above is something to consider. Veteran players would know you can turn off the chat and that one bad channel doesn't necessarily reflect the atmosphere of the entire game, new players may not.

I did think it was odd to find no regional, world or trade chats in FFXIV when I started playing but I am wondering if this was a deliberate choice by SE.

[linay]

And you know, you are never obligated to use it. You wouldn't be obligated to use this.

Please, name a chat channel that you are absolutely required to use besides /say.

So you don't need to use it to play an MMORPG.

And even still, all it takes is a group of people (you can blacklist any time) to make it into something you don't like.

That's indeed one of the reasons why I think we won't have regional/world chat: RMT advertisement. It's already bad enough for some people as it is. They wouldn't want to make the situation worse.

[Gula]

That's indeed one of the reasons why I think we won't have regional/world chat: RMT advertisement. It's already bad enough for some people as it is. They wouldn't want to make the situation worse.

Please, tell me, how the situation would be worse? You will never have full control over the contents of an open chat channel unless you mod it yourself. Explain, please, how adding this would harm the community when they can turn it off any time.

[linay]

Please, tell me, how the situation would be worse? You will never have full control over the contents of an open chat channel unless you mod it yourself. Explain, please, how adding this would harm the community when they can turn it off any time.

Because it would reach a wider audience due to the wider reach of such a channel that you are requesting. Do you really cannot figure that out by yourself?

[Kenky]

Please, tell me, how the situation would be worse? You will never have full control over the contents of an open chat channel unless you mod it yourself. Explain, please, how adding this would harm the community when they can turn it off any time.

Worse situation? Okay.

If "Region Chat" was actually a thing, then RMTs, bots and such could be on any server and drastically reduce the amount of bots requires to spam the chats. Thus meaning that the % chance of SE catching them goes down, purely because there's less OF them to catch.

And again. Just like it's been voiced plenty of times. "Open chats" aren't always a good thing. If people want to talk to people outside of their server, they will find a way to do so. I sincerely doubt anyone on the Crystal Datacenter wants to suffer the memery and general shenanigans that are some servers shout chats. Besides those that commit to the memery and general shenanigans.

You being from Mateus yourself, I can assume you don't want to deal with, say.. The ragefests and witchhunting of Zalera or Coeurl, purely by sharing a datacenter with them. We already have enough people being morons and antagonizing aplenty. Giving them an unmoderated, unbound chat room to vent their venom in to brings far more problems than benefits.

(Zalera / Coeurl Servers used as example. Not intended to be an attack or a callout. I dont personally know the state of the other servers besides Balmung. It's just that I know these servers are on Crystal off the top of my head.)