Global Chat

[Tibian]

Also against global chat. To those saying it adds to the sense of community, FFXI's community was great and didn't have or need global chat.

That is why in XI I could stand with LFP flag open for several hours before I got a party...

Such a sense of community.

Also to those who want multiple linkshell chats. It is a nice feature, but then everyone would just end up being in every linkshell. Defeats any purpose really. When or if future content comes it would also blur the line of who gets to participate and who doesn't. I don't see it being effective, but its not something I'd write off as useless either.

[MeowyWowie]

That is why in XI I could stand with LFP flag open for several hours before I got a party...

Such a sense of community.

What does that have to do with sense of community? And how would global chat help you in that position?

All global chat would do would add more "DD looking for party" spam, while there's still no one looking for whatever job you were. No one said the party recruitment system was perfect, and that's hardly what's being discussed here.

[normalforce]

FFXI's chat worked perfectly fine, there was still spam but not an entire server worth of it. Please do not add this. There's FAR more important issues.

FFXI's chat system was acceptable but could have been a lot better.

And I don't think anyone is saying that there aren't more important issues. But the thing is, changes don't come quickly or easily. If they see this as something that people are interested in, they can start planning it out, fit it into the queue and maybe have something ready later on.

[MeowyWowie]

FFXI's chat system was acceptable but could have been a lot better.

And I don't think anyone is saying that there aren't more important issues. But the thing is, changes doesn't come quickly or easily. If they see this as something that people are interested in, they can start planning it out, fit it into the queue and maybe have something ready later on.

While I agree there was room for improvement, zone wide shouts for instance, I would much rather the dev team spend their time make our LS's more manageable with things like /lsmes, letting us kick inactive players, switching LSs via text command, etc, etc. Those are things that everyone wants, and ASAP.

I'm pretty sure it would probably be the same team working on these types of things, and within that small category, Global chat would be at the bottom of the list in my book.

[normalforce]

I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.

Yes, yes, a million times yes. +1 to this. Talking in all of your linkshells should be as simple as this. Even /switch 2 would be preferable to what we currently have to do to talk in another linkshell.

[Speeral]

I'd rather bring up a more pressing concern... Can we get the ability to chat in any ls we have equipped? I'd really like /l1 and /l2 because swapping shells constantly to talk to 2 different groups is irritating, and sometimes the time it takes to make the change can cause your comment to lose relevance in a conversation.

Now thats an idea i like, and was going to post about thumbs up to you good sir!!!!!

[Coldbrand]

I sure as HELL don't want Global Chat. PLEASE don't give idiots a place for their drama and bigotry and ignorance or the RMT a place to spam or morons a place to troll. If you put it in you're at a severe handicap not using it and thus I'd have no choice but to use it every now and then. I'm really not up for having to deal with this WoW kiddie crap.

[Tibian]

I sure as HELL don't want Global Chat. PLEASE don't give idiots a place for their drama and bigotry and ignorance or the RMT a place to spam or morons a place to troll. If you put it in you're at a severe handicap not using it and thus I'd have no choice but to use it every now and then. I'm really not up for having to deal with this WoW kiddie crap.

Please don't insult people who have differing opinions than you. I am not an idiot or a moron for wanting a feature that you clearly oppose. Maybe you are contributing to the same effect that others find irritating in global chat or even forums like these.

I am not saying sarcasm is out of the question, but please be respectful.

[Gath]

The shout chatting in XI in Jueno was pretty clean and actually fun to chatter in, as well as when the masses moved to WG. People really didn't spam useless bull, at least on my server they didn't. I would like a GC as long as people kept it clean like in XI....but it might not happen with the people in this community.

[Coldbrand]

The shout chatting in XI in Jueno was pretty clean and actually fun to chatter in, as well as when the masses moved to WG. People really didn't spam useless bull, at least on my server they didn't. I would like a GC as long as people kept it clean like in XI....but it might not happen with the people in this community.

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.