Quote Originally Posted by LewdCoffee View Post
Recently came back to the game with the recent patch and while it was somewhat bad with World Travel I feel like shout chat is getting progressively more and more aggressive with how much "spam" is being pumped into it.

While this is a personal problem, for some reason I just pass out at random times so I often have to tell people "Hey if I don't respond, give me an hour or two and I'll prob wake up and check my log". Before I can reach them though, over the course of an hour I'll see like 10 or 20 shouts advertising for the same thing just at a different location.
I get people want to make income via twitch with DJ stuff but at the same time it's pretty annoying with just how repetitive and large some of these shouts are. I know there's been a lot of post throughout the forums time regarding shout chat but I really wish SE did something to limit it.

Give the ERP venus/DJ/ "Draw your character on stream" people their own shout chat.
" (insert some smug lala or miqo) just turn off shout chat 4head"
As someone who occasionally conducts/scouts hunt trains/ occasionally joins in the "shot calling" in frontline" turning off and on shout chat would be somewhat of an inconvenience.

If not that, while it wouldn't be a total fix, put a daily or weekly limit to shout chat. This won't stop much since I assume the people spamming these places are often just alts since my blacklist is currently full and I still see the same messages.
While I don't know how it works now, I know TERA had a system where you had to spend money in order to shout. While I don't think this will do much at least it will force people to spend even more money to spam shout chat since I bet at least 50% or less are possible RMT users. (Not hard to find, just look at the funny "sprout" looking lovingling at players for a few minutes in Uldah's Atheryte or just check the MB on some low-level gear.)

Either offer more support to these players by giving them a tab in pf/shout chat then people interested have a place to check and players like me don't have to deal with it or restrict it a little.
They should just ban it in shout chat. I go to and even work at several venues and tbh when I'm looking for a new venue to go to I check party finder in the other tab. And that's where this should stay. These shouts don't pull in new venue goers because the only ppl playing rn don't care about venues or already use them via pf