Global Chat

[AtryxEtair]

NO!!! Global chat would make it feel like just another one of those poorly produced F2P featureless repetitive grind fests that come out every other day......oh wait...crap. Yea, better add global chat. m(_._)m

[Oscillate_Wildly]

Ugh, no thanks. Sure it's quiet, then raise a little hell? What's stopping you from talking over /sh now? You have LS, /t, and /p
At this point in the game there is really no use for it. It's just another obnoxious feature that will make the game feel more or less like another one of Aeria's F2P games. If you like it so much, go there and see that it's all crap.

Want to have a Search for party? Ask for a party flag and a tag in the party options to include a list of everyone who wants to. That's a lot more useful to people than a global chat where everything is lost in the continuous spam.

[Tibian]

Ugh, no thanks. Sure it's quiet, then raise a little hell? What's stopping you from talking over /sh now? You have LS, /t, and /p
At this point in the game there is really no use for it. It's just another obnoxious feature that will make the game feel more or less like another one of Aeria's F2P games. If you like it so much, go there and see that it's all crap.

Want to have a Search for party? Ask for a party flag and a tag in the party options to include a list of everyone who wants to. That's a lot more useful to people than a global chat where everything is lost in the continuous spam.

If you're so against it, the toggle feature is there.

Nobody responds in shout because it has limited range.

Also, I'd rather not sit with a party flag for 5 hours like you have to use to in XI just to get a party. So I don't want a LFG feature unless they make it as successful as WoW's was.

[Mack]

If you're so against it, the toggle feature is there.

Nobody responds in shout because it has limited range.

Also, I'd rather not sit with a party flag for 5 hours like you have to use to in XI just to get a party. So I don't want a LFG feature unless they make it as successful as WoW's was.

How does this make any sense at all? so you DON'T want a party seek feature but instead you want to spam the global chat and try and get your word in that you're making a party although almost everyone will ignore you because of the countless WTB/WTT/WTS spam going on on that channel? Instead of someone who is making a party pulls up the window to see who is seeking and sending you a /tell directly? I mean there are reasonable complaints and then there is this. TBH with you, I'll take party seek over global spam any day.

[Nipa]

I have yet to see a decent argument in this thread against having global chats. Gold sellers and spam not being ones, as you can obviously disable the global chats.

[ChronicalSin]

You have global chat in the forms of LS, P and tell. No need for global shout basically.

[Adol]

You have global chat in the forms of LS, P and tell. No need for global shout basically.

Yes, those options are available but a global chat channel would allow players to meet new people in-game.
For example, what if none of your LS's armorers are online at that time and you need someone to make some stuff for you? You could ask over the global channel if anyone can make it for you. Chances are, there will be someone online out of the server's current online population that can help you at that particular time. Or at least the chances would be higher if you didn't limit yourself to the people you know all of the time.

There are so many examples of which global chat channels can be put to good use.

FFXIV also needs to become more social since players, 90% of the time, only ever talk in LS chat, making the game seem dead to new and old players alike.

[SHJcules]

While I wouldn't use the system, if it gets people off of the forums and into the game, then let's slap it on.

More than global chat though, I would love a global in game, and player made, message board. Just like a small one/two line banner across the top or bottom of the screen; showing the first sentence or so of random messages that players can create. You can click on the banner and filter through all the messages, from newest to oldest, and browse what people are saying. Would definitely need some limitations tho. Like one post per player at a time (and you can delete your post at anytime) and they get deleted when you log off, and why not even make em cost some money to make a post. And some kind of options to select who sees your message. So if your looking for some people for Limsa leves, just limit it so only people around Limsa could see and etc etc

[AngryNixon]

I'm totally with Mack on this one (in that I'm completely against global chat). However, that being said, if you do have it, I don't have any issues with it so long as I can turn it all off so I can play the game with the chat channels that make sense like P or LS and those who support the global chat can enjoy their endless flood of junk text and pointless nonsense. win win.

[ChronicalSin]

Yes, those options are available but a global chat channel would allow players to meet new people in-game.
For example, what if none of your LS's armorers are online at that time and you need someone to make some stuff for you? You could ask over the global channel if anyone can make it for you. Chances are, there will be someone online out of the server's current online population that can help you at that particular time. Or at least the chances would be higher if you didn't limit yourself to the people you know all of the time.

There are so many examples of which global chat channels can be put to good use.

FFXIV also needs to become more social since players, 90% of the time, only ever talk in LS chat, making the game seem dead to new and old players alike.

I understand what you mean, but you dont need a global chat for that, since it will most likely be flooded with spam, instead they should make a repair-chat or something like that, so people can ask for services etc. The global chat doesnt have anything to do with that, there's better ways to implement the stuff you want.