The Feast is SO much better without chat

[NessaWyvern]

I hate that there's no chat option anymore. How am I supposed to tell the people with 10 medals to not stay in melee range of everyone? I see it happen so often in the feast that its not funny. I can't tell them to clear their dots with Purify, or even that pvp abilities exist! Back in the past when I would mention pvp abilities, there were a large number of people who didn't know about them. How am I supposed to give them tips now? Like when to purify their debuffs?

I used to tell people, that when they see the little clock on them, or a red shield icon in their debuffs, or a rainbow circle, to purify them, because they're about to make you take a lot of damage.

[MoarLegion]

I'd like to point out the terrible image this portrays for the game. If I wasn't a XIV player, and someone told that chat was disabled in a team based PvP mode because of possible harassment, the first question out of my mouth would be "Are they f##king stupid?"
This does more than just hurt the PvP community, it hurts the game's image. It says "we're so afraid of losing subs we banned chat in team-based Arena PvP because of a few people complaining about harassment."

This is not a good image for the community, the dev team, and the game itself.

[Synestra]

I propably avoided multiple temp bans thanks to disabled chat! After almost every match i would love to strangle some of my teammates because it seems pickingup medals is only for tryhards.

[RitzNBitz]

I rarely play any competitive pvp mode in this game, and damn while people can be toxic lil shit head the lack of communication makes it significantly harder to play. Its impossible to understand what your teammate is thinking and has kind of revolved around "lets make the best guess and hope it all works for the best".

It is also hard to burst down~ since without macros or team cohesion you don't know when someones about to go all in on that ranged DPS. Its random and terrible. If they truly want to make it hard to troll just remove name plates while at it and use default avatar looks for everyone. If you cant take a bit of idiots yappering then party chat is pretty easy to turn off. Its like the chat ban, except it doesn't affect anyone else.

[Exira]

This is just wishful thinking. SE has limited resources and time. They will use those to affect the greatest number of players possible. That means invariably niche portions of the game will receive less attention. We all pay the same subscription fee, but SE stands to lose more money catering to minority interests than they do with the majority. Its not discrimination to run a business properly.

Also as an aside, more people want to be/are interested in raiding than participating in pvp. To compare the two is to compare apples and oranges.

This thing makes me laugh , i took part to Raid Savage threads , 1 of the main answer was " only minority of players raid so Se is not going to invest resources for extra raid tier". SO raid ppl is minority , pvp ppl minority , is there any interest in this game other than fashion glamours? XD

[Chronons]

This thing makes me laugh , i took part to Raid Savage threads , 1 of the main answer was " only minority of players raid so Se is not going to invest resources for extra raid tier". SO raid ppl is minority , pvp ppl minority , is there any interest in this game other than fashion glamours? XD

Did you read actually read what I said while you were laughing? "more people want to be/are interested in raiding than participating in pvp". Raiding is one of the major flagships of any MMO. Its the player end goal so to speak. The game is designed to progress you into raiding. To compare it to things like Lords of Vermillion, Chocobo Racing, and PVP is not objective. SE will always want a sturdy raiding system so it can remain competitive as an MMO, even if its a niche player base. The same is not true of other niche markets in the game.

[Exira]

Did you read actually read what I said while you were laughing? "more people want to be/are interested in raiding than participating in pvp". Raiding is one of the major flagships of any MMO. Its the player end goal so to speak. The game is designed to progress you into raiding. To compare it to things like Lords of Vermillion, Chocobo Racing, and PVP is not objective. SE will always want a sturdy raiding system so it can remain competitive as an MMO, even if its a niche player base. The same is not true of other niche markets in the game.

i still don't understand why ppl here get mad for everything i wasnt laughin on u but the thing that ppl says : pvp is minority , raid is minority , everything is minority and my question was : what ppl actually do

[SenSaitoru]

I don't pvp yet, so my opinion may not matter,but I think removing the chat is unfair for those who do pvp. There is toxic chat everywhere, like towns, duty finder and raids not just in pvp.I think the best thing to do is make turning off chat optional, it just seems more fair that way, but again that's just my opinion.

[Moonlite]

Mainly Balmung has quite a few bots where players were mpking and the whole server was reporting them. They were so obvious to if you moved the mob they would go through the actions in the spot the mob was suppose to be.

People praise SE fan base interaction. But it is all fake fluff. Real interaction would be these guys got banned for X. Or the reason the duty finder skips people is because we have a crappy system. I hated the crab guy in WoW pvp forums but I can respect he had real interaction and you could understand and see why.

[xxczx]

TL;DR this thread - Chat ban is bad, remove it. Done, thread over.