Global Chat

[Mack]

Summary of the thread :
"There is no reason for not having optional global chats. Every other game do well with them."
"It will never work, RTM and players will spam! I don't want them. I'd rather be eaten by an angry Lala than have a global chat!"
"But it's optional!"
"I don't want them!"
"Optional!"
"You are obviously stupid if you want them!"
"Optional!"
"For god sake, please, never ever a global chat channel in that game!"
"Optional!"
"I can have any opinion I want!"
"Optional!"
"I don't want them because you want them!"


... and I have yet to understand why anyone would not want to have them.

first off LOL nice. Second, I think majority of people against them is whether or not its optional it will become the most used and people hate it, in a sense their hands will be forced to use global chat because everyone else uses it for everything, so it doesn't become optional really. Its the same as someone saying (for instance) you can grind mobs for 200 SP a pop but we are making guild leve mobs 600 SP a pop and no limit on how many leves you can do...sure leves are optional but obviously you will never manage a grind party as long as leves exist.

Of course, this is just my opinion on the matter, and I personally have always hated global chat in every game I've seen it in so I will always say no but if it makes a showing I'm not gonna cry over it.

EDIT: actually a better example would probably be having an AH and MW at the same time, sure either one is optional but if everyone congregates to using one over the other, it makes the other choice obsolete and the one doesn't become optional. Its obviously not to the same degree but its a point and its been made.

[trinta]

EDIT: actually a better example would probably be having an AH and MW at the same time, sure either one is optional but if everyone congregates to using one over the other, it makes the other choice obsolete and the one doesn't become optional. Its obviously not to the same degree but its a point and its been made.

That is a perfect example, I agree. A superior system will always effectively replace an inferior system, and both "AH v. MW" and "global chat v. shout" are shining examples of this.