White list for tells

[Gugnir]

Isn't it about time we have a button that we can check to enable white list only for tells. Have it as a default to protect people from themselves being phished. Email accounts have spam functions. Why cant we have one in game. If you dont like it, uncheck the white list.

[NessaWyvern]

Isn't it about time we have a button that we can check to enable white list only for tells. Have it as a default to protect people from themselves being phished. Email accounts have spam functions. Why cant we have one in game. If you dont like it, uncheck the white list.

Exactly. If an old-ass game like Runescape can make it so only those on your friends list can send you tells, surely FF14 can do the same. Unless *insert something something spaghetti code excuse here*

[Jojoya]

I wouldn't care if it were an option. I having it as a default would be the wrong way to do it. It would make it more difficult for new players to ask questions of other players without spamming zone chat endlessly. They may not even realize they were blocked from getting tells unless someone was on their friends list.

You'd also end up getting constant friends requests from other players just so they could hold a brief conversation with you.

If the true goal was to protect dumb players from phishing scams, it wouldn't work. The scammers would simply move into zone chat, spamming it with an army of disposable characters on already compromised accounts like RMT bots do.

[Ilyrian]

Seems a bit counter-intuitive for an MMO that has very limited social interaction as it is.

[Jin-]

No thanks. How would I chat with the people then? Ask questions, compliment their glamour and so on

[Tint]

No thanks. How would I chat with the people then? Ask questions, compliment their glamour and so on

In /say chat.

[Jin-]

In /say chat.

In a game with no speech bubbles? Yeah no thanks

[Canadane]

In a game with no speech bubbles? Yeah no thanks

I've never understood this complaint.
You can look at your chat.
A tell is functionally the same as say.

[Jojoya]

I've never understood this complaint.
You can look at your chat.
A tell is functionally the same as say.

/say has a fairly limited range. You might want to compliment or ask a question about a glamour you saw but the other player has already moved away. You'd have to interrupt whatever else you were doing and start following them around to stay in range.

/tell doesn't have a range. The only limitation is the player can't be in an instance.

[Jin-]

I've never understood this complaint.
You can look at your chat.
A tell is functionally the same as say.

Lots of spam in the chat. All of it is the same color. If someone is next to me and using /s it's their problem if I don't see or notice it.
/tell gives me drum sounds /s6. and I know someone wants to talk to me.