Global Chat

[Carmillia]

Well, if the FF community is so great, why anyone would be afraid of global channel abusive spamming? Afterall, the problem is not the feature in itself but how people use it.
OT: What I would like to see for the search party feature is actually a board where a player can register the classes and levels for which he's willing to look for a party so we can avoid rank50 people soloing/farming while seeking for party for their lower rank jobs.

[ChronicalSin]

Well, if the FF community is so great, why anyone would be afraid of global channel abusive spamming? Afterall, the problem is not the feature in itself but how people use it.
OT: What I would like to see for the search party feature is actually a board where a player can register the classes and levels for which he's willing to look for a party so we can avoid rank50 people soloing/farming while seeking for party for their lower rank jobs.

I dont even have an opinion on the community. Most likely there will be spam though. It doesnt have to be so black and white btw, you CAN have other options. It doesnt have to be global chat or not, theres alot of ways which you can have the things you like.
I dont understand what the quality of the community has to do with anything.

[Carmillia]

I dont even have an opinion on the community. Most likely there will be spam though. It doesnt have to be so black and white btw, you CAN have other options. It doesnt have to be global chat or not, theres alot of ways which you can have the things you like.
I dont understand what the quality of the community has to do with anything.

As you are quoting me, let me then reply to your post.

Did I say anywhere in my post that it has 'to be global chat or not'? Did I say there was no other options? My only statement was to say that a global channel is not the problem per se, it's what people make out of this feature.

I could also say the same thing about 'Most likely there will be spam though': there are a lot of ways you can have a global channel without spamming problems.

The fact that you 'dont understand what the quality of the community has to do with anything' does not surprise me

/cheers

[Nabiri]

In Ul'dah I've already experienced a lot of spamming in shout. That's annoying enough as it is.
Especially a certain few on Besaid who just like to argue and harass and slander people.
Global chat just makes it easier for this annoying behavior to go on, and makes us all immediately accessible to RMTs. Of course RMT are going to spam it if it exists. Everyone sees it.

[Cutriss]

I say yes.

But make it opt-in. If people want to do /2 like in WOW, fine with me, but make it only for people that like that sort of thing.

If you're new to XIV and you log in and see that sort of chatter going on as soon as you hit the ground, it's going to set the tone for the rest of your experience in the game.

I can roll with it but I can see plenty of people not wanting to, or being turned off from it. If it's on by default, then it reflects on the whole community of the game. If it's off by default, people have to enter it and know how to exit it.

That said, I don't see it happening in XIV. Pretty sure the JP players wouldn't want that, and with a multi-language game, a single server-wide global channel would probably have quite a few issues, and a separate global channel for each language would be counter-productive.

[Carmillia]

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fJCr2ZGdw

[normalforce]

Just a clarification, when you hear global chat, do you think one channel that everyone on the server can use, or do you think multiple channels split apart by interest (general, selling, buying, crafting, gathering, lfp, etc.)? Or something else altogether?

[zoekwon]

i want global chat! yes! how about giving us option to vote ban chat. if RTM are shouting for sale. click on character name and vote ban chat . like 50 vote would ban chat him.

[PikachuLink]

this game needs chat channels it needs everything they should honestly start copy and pasting from rift lol no lie and put a FF twist on it but the thing is Square enix hasnt made a good game since the ps1....soooooo heres to failure *cheers*

[Nipa]

Also it would be really nice if there was an option such that using a channel once set it as your /cm. And I mean "nice" as in "every other game allows this".

/join general-en
"You joined general-en as /3"
/join trade-fr
"You joined trade-fr as /4"
/4 WTS Omelette du fromage!
/ls3 I fail at selling my things guys.
/join lfg-jp
"You joined lfg-jp as /5"

It's is not that hard to have a real chat system, right?

But again, it's not hard to have a "/ls-kick 3 Random Guy"...