Server-Wide Chat Channel

[Fieros]

/global channel would be a welcome addition to FFXIV.

It would be used for many reasons such as trading, RMT spam, LS recruitment/ flaming, leve-link parties, SP grind parties, noobie questions, ranting, and reducing boredom while grinding DoH skills.

FF games tend to attract a more mature or good-natured crowd than other franchises, but boundaries would absolutely need to exist for the channel to have a positive impact. Most importantly:

-two line (whatever amount of text it takes to fill two lines of the default chat window) limit for each entry

-at least 20 second delay before becoming eligible to send another /global entry

there
is
nothing more
annoying
than
people flooding
chat
channels
talking
like this.

[Epo]

I think this would be a genius idea. I have played other MMOs where it's been used for foolish and useless chat or rants/trolling so I usually filter it off. But I do also believe that FFXI and FFXIV have a more mature player base, and that it would liven up the server. I mean... it's rather depressing walking into Ul'dah, seeing hundred of players, and no one responding to anything.. I can try to look for a group for hours and nothing and no one shouting anything. Not to talk, not to find a group... nothing... I think this would encourage people a lot and also it'd have the players from all over, so there'd have to be something going on.

[Malakhim]

...I do also believe that FFXI and FFXIV have a more mature player base...

I would believe that the reason the audience in FFXI and FFXIV seem on general to be more "mature" is because of its "adult swim"(in the literal sense, not the animation block) design. There are "limits" in place that would deter a seemingly more "immature" crowd like no world PvP, no rabid jumping or other crazy physics defying stuff, the gameplay is very much team-based, which means less room for douchery, being an entry in a series that is usually shrugged off by the western gamer public, and at least for FFXIV, a higher barrier to entry due to high PC requirements.

Take away these things, and I'm pretty sure that you'll have plenty of "WoW-heads" heading to the game and bringing it down to every other game's level.

These are just my thoughts on the perceived maturity of these games' communities, and is hardly indicative of anything with factual basis. Personally I don't think it has anything to do with more maturity as much as it has to do with the game attracts a certain demographic with certain personality characteristics that may not be in line with the audience of other MMOs.