Developers: Please add different chat channels to connect major cities!

[Geesus]

I think its more than a nice little detail. first, this would encourage people to spread out more: grid and LL are completely empty. secondly people could travel between cities without worrying that they are missing out on parties etc by not being able to see the shouts in uldah. this is a social game above anything else, why miss out on opportunities to interact with other players because of a lack of better implemented chat channels. also , there should be a feature in the future where you could /leave chat channels so that you are not "bothered" by the supposed spammers that don't even exist yet. It seems everyone here agrees on the city wide chat, but the global chat is a bit more controversial for reasons involving fear of future population changes/spam. and again, a global channel could be very easily regulated to prevent spam - this is super easy and has been done before in many games.

Also, the fact that this thread has had 1800+ views and it was only created a few days ago indicate that people want this. maybe more should speak up.

It's not really the spam I'm talking about though.

Look, I agree it's a MMO so being social is part of the game. But why do you "need" to have all these "extra" channels to find a group? You need it now because the party search system is very limited and poorly done. You wouldn't need to "hear" other people looking for groups if you could put up your PT flag and give some brief details as to what you would like to find in a PT. That's what I mean. I've played MMos with multiple chat channels and no mater what you add or can remove from them, it's uncessary chatter. If I was in Grid or LL and I have my flag up and I'm cafting or grinding to wait for an invite, I'll get one IF someone wants me to PT with them; it's really not that difficult.

As for the 1.8k in views, apparently people see what the OP was talking about but maybe they disagree therefore that's why no one is saying much. There are already plenty of posts about the lack of a decent search function and honestly, I think those carry more weight then extra chat channels.

[Fullmetal]

It's not really the spam I'm talking about though.

Look, I agree it's a MMO so being social is part of the game. But why do you "need" to have all these "extra" channels to find a group? You need it now because the party search system is very limited and poorly done. You wouldn't need to "hear" other people looking for groups if you could put up your PT flag and give some brief details as to what you would like to find in a PT. That's what I mean. I've played MMos with multiple chat channels and no mater what you add or can remove from them, it's uncessary chatter. If I was in Grid or LL and I have my flag up and I'm cafting or grinding to wait for an invite, I'll get one IF someone wants me to PT with them; it's really not that difficult.

As for the 1.8k in views, apparently people see what the OP was talking about but maybe they disagree therefore that's why no one is saying much. There are already plenty of posts about the lack of a decent search function and honestly, I think those carry more weight then extra chat channels.

This is a separate issue than a search function, lets make that clear. We all know the search function sucks and that is discussed elsewhere on the forums.

The point here was integrating chat channels across the cities - for whatever purposes that may serve (and there are several). This idea has nothing to do with a party search function necessarily.
Additionally, the creation of, for example, a trade channel to try to buy/sell items with others without necessarily having to use the market.
Also, "unnecessary chatter" has no well defined meaning. For one person, something might be irrelevant, but for another not so. That is not a very objective statement.