So In A Game Where In-Party Communication Is At Times Vital ...

[Kanitezz]

Because the lack of said avenue causes inconvenience, such as for me trying to send messages to friends when only one of us is in a duty. Sure, we could use a linkshell or something, but why not just have a private message system that actually works instead? We are only allowed so many linkshells.

I never understood this sjw mentality of, "they will be toxic and my feelings." In this game. So what if someone is toxic. Grow a pair, tell them to duck off, blacklist them and move on.

Alright there. It may be that easy for you. But everyone is not like you. Some people have trouble doing that. We're all different. Some of us are not as mentally strong as you. I know. For some of you its either hard to believe or hard to accept. But its true. Everything isn't so simple for everyone else. Its not black and white. Its not from point A to point B. Its complex for others. No matter how long or short the insults are, they still stick in some people's minds. Sometimes an entire day, and sometimes the day after that. Yeah we can TELL them to "duck off". We can blacklist them too. But guess what? The emotional and/or mental damage is already done. But at the same time its not DONE. It festers sometimes. Giving a home to a lot of very negative thoughts. We're not asking anyone to hold hands and sing Kumbaya or anything. Just don't be an ass.

So MY mentality is, don't be toxic in the first place and don't enable toxicity by implementing a feature like this. You mates wanna chat exclusively with your friends in dungeons? I get that. Thats fair. But at the same time think about how EASILY others would be able to misuse this. Seriously.

Because there's a weighing up of the usefulness of a feature vs the potential abuses.

Trades between players serve a useful purpose that outweigh the potential for misuse. (Blocking it would here be the equivalent of blocking all private messaging in any form. For what it's worth, you can't trade in instances either.)

Private messaging within an instance serves less purpose because there are other ways you can communicate with your party and there's no need for that privacy just to organise what the party is doing.

As Iscah kinda said here, weigh the potential good with the potential evil. I mean some of you may not... actually care about other people getting bullied by the implementation of something like this. I do though. I don't want it to happen.

But at the end of the day, I'm not going to change your mind, you're not going to change mine. So... I guess im done saying my piece... Pieces...