Global Chat

[Mack]

People that play an MMO but they are fanatically against a global chat, do you see the irony here?
Yeah lets make a big drama because some kid will shout "boobs" in chat or because someone will spam some wts/wtb ads.
Lets concentrate on the negative aspects and ignore all the new players that you could help by answering their questions, all the ideas that could be exchanged, all the game info that would be made available, all the friendships that could be formed by having a global chat. Not to mention the game will feel so much more alive (and well ...*cough).
Lets say no to all that because we are oh so afraid of them spammers, yep that makes so much sense.

Well clearly you can't see that people will have different opinions based on their experiences. Many people here have been through at least one MMO where they didn't need global chat, that was FFXI, and it was the most tight knit community you will ever find in an MMO (at least for the 3 years I played it)...and its funny how often "global chat will help the noobs" has come up, funny because I've never seen it used for this purpose since most things go ignored on that channel considering how often its spammed. However, if they have multiple "global" channels it might help I'd agree with that (although they would still be spammed to hell and back from my experience).

[Tirem778]

Well clearly you can't see that people will have different opinions based on their experiences. Many people here have been through at least one MMO where they didn't need global chat, that was FFXI, and it was the most tight knit community you will ever find in an MMO (at least for the 3 years I played it)...and its funny how often "global chat will help the noobs" has come up, funny because I've never seen it used for this purpose since most things go ignored on that channel considering how often its spammed. However, if they have multiple "global" channels it might help I'd agree with that (although they would still be spammed to hell and back from my experience).

... BOOBS! ...naw im sorry...

So ya, toggle button for multiple different channels and a toggle button to turn them all off would make it nice. I feel like it may eliminate /sh though. D; besides that I have no gripes against it. Let the kids spam. That just means we know who to avoid in game. ^^