Global Chat

[Tibian]

RMT will still get to you via other methods in just as much frequency. The current state of the game needs global chat so you can get things done. People continue to say "I play games for the community as well as the content." Right now XIV has neither community nor content.

What is even worse, is that the community is fractioned between languages so you feel even less involved with the people you are playing with.

[Wolfie]

Would you guys who are saying "no" be okay with optional global and/or private channels?

[Ruri]

I'm fine with it as long as its not a default option. I remember logging into Aion for the first time and seeing 2,000 different bots spamming selling gold. I remember having to ignore them all 1 by 1 in order to actually have a conversion on global chat.

[Ruri]

BTW nice sig pic Wolfie hehe

[Eugenics]

Nothing will stop Rmt's from spaming you, no global chat channel just means you will get alot of /tells only reason you dont see it now is gil is worthless. I play on Trabia at EU times and ul'dah is like a graveyard you might see one shout all night and thats for a repair.

[Nilheim]

Right now I guess I'd be cool with it. The game feels so dead I miss Whitegate shouts >.>
When the population increases and reaches a "normal" number, I will be against it, although I wouldn't mind as long as it could be turned off. Sadly global chats work like magnets, and the people they attract are very often the ones you don't wanna hear talk.

[Ruri]

Sadly global chats work like magnets, and the people they attract are very often the ones you don't wanna hear talk.

Totally agree. My blacklist was maxed out in Aion with spam bots and morons within a week.

[Punxsutawney]

No, just no. Global chat is garbage. If they give an option to let you enter or leave, then it may be ok... But I dunno, was never a fan of global chat in LOTRO either.

[Rentahamster]

No, just no. Global chat is garbage. If they give an option to let you enter or leave, then it may be ok... But I dunno, was never a fan of global chat in LOTRO either.

Considering you have the option to filter /shout, then I don't think this would be any different. I conceptualize a "global channel" as just like a /shout, but server wide.

[Joeking]

I'm all for Global Chat it links the community together, as if we are one massive deformed conjoined monster telepathically talking to each other.
I'm serious.