The New Chat Restriction in The Feast

[Vejjiegirl]

OP is from Balmung, which is Aether. As someone who is also an Aether healer, I can say that healing queues have slowed down significantly this past week, and melee are now getting instant queues. Also, due to how easy it is to climb this season, unranked/bronze players are having a longer wait time to find games since most anyone who cares is diamond/plat/gold by now.

Ahhh I see, I had no idea Aether ques were so bad ....

[FreeKingStefan]

Ahhh I see, I had no idea Aether ques were so bad ....

Well, they're not. Healer queues just simply are not instant anymore.

Even yesterday, on Thanksgiving, I did not wait more than 15 minutes for a queue. The most I have ever waited this season was 23 minutes. The queues now are typically in the 5-9 minute range for healers, and can still occasionally be instant during peak hours.

[Sorazure]

What? Your opinion was as follows

I don't work for SE. I can approve this update as much as I want but it's not going to change the fact that it's unlikely to get implemented.

I'm obviously not referring to myself with you writing off other's thoughts. I'm usually not the type of person who likes to spend an unnecessary amount of time writing paragraphs on forums, so I just stated my approval of the update then saw your ridiculous contradiction. That's all.

Also, weren't you going on about something regarding not usually responding to people lioe me since I'm a troll who doesn't want to discuss the topic? Speaking pretty well for yourself here bud considering you quoted nothing relevant to my thoughts. Yet another sweet, sweet contradiction.

[Cleanse]

There should be severe punishment for those who are harassing others, not a massive censorship for all PVP players. I would love nothing more than to see people banned from PVP indefinitely for the sort of unbelievable things they feel perfectly comfortable writing in party chat. You can't play respectfully, you can't play at all.

Most toxic people do get banned (3 strikes and it is permanent) already. Sometimes for something minuscule they typed in chat... like "ur dumb". In many of these cases it's overboard.

If people are getting upset for a lack of heals in 8v8, they should help heal. I have done a bit of 8v8 and I have a high chance of being the only healer. When a lot of the better players are also queued up... and on the enemy team, it is not easy to solo heal. The better players usually do not flame as they know the odds were already stacked against them. Ignore the flaming, take the game in as it was given to you and try your best next time with that info.

If you have played a little 8v8 and Frontlines, queue up for 4v4. It's on average a lot better this season as a new player. You *should* be matched with people semi new.

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IMO, parsing through 'toxic' chat still has some useful information. "Why didn't you burst the WHM with me when I was LB'ing?" New players cannot learn much when they queue in with mutes. Yes the mode is simple, but even at the top end there are things people miss.

[FreeKingStefan]

I don't work for SE. I can approve this update as much as I want but it's not going to change the fact that it's unlikely to get implemented.

I'm not sure how it's even possible to think this way. Why would they show it off in the live letter and then not implement it? SE has never done that before. As for your assurance that they listen to the community and changes will be made...

It took them nearly 3 years to get rid of PvP's GC restrictions.

Three. Years.

[Aviars]

Square could've just muted people who are too toxic, but that requires GM's and money to implement. Much much easier to just mute everybody, even though no PVP game ever has done such a thing, even extremely toxic games like League has never done a global mute haha.

This is just sad. I don't know if it's just the dev team being out of touch with pvp or if they are doing this to save money.

In my opinion it would be better to just do nothing. If people have really been getting that upset over chat in Feast they can literally turn it off themselves.

[worldofneil]

Very glad to hear about this. I try, but I'm not a very good PvP player and every match has resulted in at least one person screaming at me to the point of making me wonder why I'm bothering. As important as being able to communicate is, it doesn't work if people are constantly breaking the game rules and harassing other players. So to me this is a welcome change and might actually make it less stressful and more enjoyable for those of us that are on the receiving end of the hate.

even extremely toxic games like League has never done a global mute

They gave us the option and so every match I play starts with /mute all

[Kaitoo]

They gave us the option and so every match I play starts with /mute all

so its not like this thing at all, thx for confirming

[FreeKingStefan]

Very glad to hear about this.

This is an honest question, Scott. Most of us know who you are and why you even queued up for PvP this season in the first place. It's clear that once the announcement was made that the minion you wanted would be made available to everyone, you stopped playing The Feast.

Are you saying you would have kept playing (and losing almost every match) in an attempt to get better if your team wasn't always flaming you?

[Rufalus]

I don't think this is censorship any more than disallowing graffiti on buildings. They are just dropping a feature from their content because it wasn't working (people ruining it with frequent harassment). You will have the new macros to issue strategy commands to players on your team in a way that can't be used for harassment. I think this will make it much more enjoyable to a larger audience than just the thick-skinned community who currently plays a lot, because now you can just play without fear of abuse. If anything, it will make people better players because enjoying a mode means doing it more and getting practice. Harassment just made people quit. Actual constructive advice during matches was rare and you don't really have time to explain all the intricacies of the mode during a fight anyway. The no-chat rule will apply to both teams so it's not like anyone would be at a disadvantage. So I hope this adjustment is successful and they don't listen to the vocal minority here lol.