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

[Fullmetal]

It's not about being anti-social...at lest not as far as I persoanlly am concerned. Yes, currently there isn't any spam because of low pop but what "if the PS3 launch if one happens changes that? Now, instead of a decent way to create/join PTs, we have this chat channel loaded with crap no one cares about and we still don't have a way to search /sea all yada yada. Just sayin. It's not imho a priority. It's a nice little what if.

If you don't want to miss a shout for a PT, hang out where everyone else hangs out just like in XI. Otherwise, join a LS and request a decent search function rather then more crap to have on the screen to sift through to find something you may have missed.

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.