Global Chat

[Gath]

As someone who's playing FFXI right now, I don't know what imaginary Jeuno you experienced, but of the 4 server's I've been on, Jeuno has been nothing but a place for people to prove how ignorant they are shouting rude garbage and fighting with eachother constantly. A global channel will be infinitely worse.

The FFXI I played was on Siren, I was on that server my whole FFXI career with the JP launch.

The chat was always good, clean, and in most cases, respectful. I don't know how it was on other servers, but I was moreso reflecting my own experiences. There were those few who were trouble started but they were pretty much ignored by most.

[Rowyne]

The FFXI I played was on Siren, I was on that server my whole FFXI career with the JP launch.

The chat was always good, clean, and in most cases, respectful. I don't know how it was on other servers, but I was moreso reflecting my own experiences. There were those few who were trouble started but they were pretty much ignored by most.

Wow, I was thinking the same thing about old Jeuno chat! It was pretty much good-natured. Maybe we were just on a great and friendly server. I'm from Siren, too! (Selyne, Hume WHM.)

[Gath]

Wow, I was thinking the same thing about old Jeuno chat! It was pretty much good-natured. Maybe we were just on a great and friendly server. I'm from Siren, too! (Selyne, Hume WHM.)

lol! I remember you xD
I was Gath, Taru DRK, I was in Priceless if you remember their awesomeness xD
Good times.

[Rhianu]

FFXI's chat system was actually very, very limited compared to other MMOs. There were virtually no public chat channels at all. The closest thing was /shout, but even that had a horribly limited range (I think it was something like 120 yalms or so, which didn't even cover the entire area of a zone).

If not a Global chat channel, then at the very least there should be city-wide chat-channels. This is an MMO, after all. Communication is essential.

[Rhianu]

Perhaps there could be a city-chat channel, which would be like the city-wide chat channels already suggested, except that all the cities would share a single chat channel, instead of each city having its own individual and separate chat channel.

For example, you could type the following:

/city Hello everybody!

And your message would be seen by everyone in Gridania, Ul'dah, and Limsa Lominsa, but not by people in any other non-city areas.

This would enable people to easily stay "in the loop" from any city in the game, at least as far as parties, Linkshells, player-organized events, etc. are concerned. That way, you can still stay in touch with the rest of Eorzea's adventurers (i.e. other players), regardless of which city you happen to be in, but you also wouldn't have to worry about an endless stream of spam if you were out in the field doing a mission or something.

[Coldbrand]

Or the far more like /city HEY I'M DRUNK GUYS *GENERIC WOMEN KITCHEN JOKE* *STUPID RACIST JOKE* *BRAGGING ABOUT SOME THING X DID* *Y SAYS WHAT X DID ISN'T WORTH BRAGGING ABOUT*

You will lag behind the people who can stomach the global channel if you don't use it since it'll become the main means of communication, thus saying it's optional is only a half truth. It'll also take away endless GM time from letting them deal with the variety of offenses being committed across Eorzea.

[Rhianu]

Then perhaps you'd be better suited to single-player, offline games.

Just a thought.

[Coldbrand]

Then perhaps you'd be better suited to single-player, offline games.

Just a thought.

Or perhaps I can voice my opinion against this on this thread where the CM will see it. Just a thought. I also like how you think when I mention racism/sexism/homophobia it'd be exclusively people in jest. I think you have a naive view of the internet and an overly optimistic view about how the global channel would turn out. Not to mention the fact that NO POSSIBLE FEATURE IMAGINABLE could empower RMT more.

[Rowyne]

Not to mention the fact that NO POSSIBLE FEATURE IMAGINABLE could empower RMT more.

Well, by that token, I guess we should just disable /say and /tell and /shout because they could solicit RMT that way. We should never consider a player search, because they could solicit RMT that way. We should never implement a messaging system because they could solicit RMT that way.

/sarcasm off

Removing avenues of communication will not deter RMT. Were you a beta tester? Do you remember them standing at the aetherytes spam shouting? I do. And they didn't need a global chat to do it.

The solution to blocking RMT isn't removing avenues of communication. It's done through SE giving us the tools to easily report spammers and block them.

This game doesn't need to shut out communication. It needs to encourage it.

[Wolfie]

Or the far more like /city HEY I'M DRUNK GUYS *GENERIC WOMEN KITCHEN JOKE* *STUPID RACIST JOKE* *BRAGGING ABOUT SOME THING X DID* *Y SAYS WHAT X DID ISN'T WORTH BRAGGING ABOUT*

You will lag behind the people who can stomach the global channel if you don't use it since it'll become the main means of communication, thus saying it's optional is only a half truth. It'll also take away endless GM time from letting them deal with the variety of offenses being committed across Eorzea.

That's not even close to true. WOW, Aion and RIFT all have OPTIONAL global chat channels, and you can function in the game perfectly well without ever entering them. They are player moderated for the most part; players can right click and report spamming offenses on a player, which not only sends a notice to specialized GMs, but also mutes the player for the session.

Zone-wide channels are still employed a LOT in WOW, especially for non-city zones, because very few people can stomach LFG and Global Defense chat like you said.