a general chat channel would be nice

[Dirwen]

Global chat should be reserved for those at capped level in this case 80 and MSQ progression like how you get rid of sprout status. Since newbies will most likely have access to NN anyway so won't need to get global chat until they high and progressed enough.

[Losara]

Would love to have a world chat channel.

These always make the world feel alive in WoW and Archeage which has the nation chat which has a similar function. Both of these games also had a trade chat channel which is server wide which would be great to see in FF14 as long as you started out of it but could opt in / out when you choose. This would give players an idea as to what items other players need so that we can craft them. e.g. someone posts a request to craft level 60 plate body and someone PMS them to say they can craft this for them.

As others have posted this would only really be useful as a feature if spam can be kept out e.g. Bots and people being obnoxious who are just spamming the same word over and over. Perhaps limit the amount of times people can post per minute and also allow players to filter key words out of the chat.

[Commander_Justitia]

I think a few people would troll such a channel and spam it with useless stuff, just because they have a big audience listening to them. And then discussions emerge what the best and intended use for the general chat is, and some guys are gonna be the general chat police and report people every day. Occasionally RMT. Ye I can live without it lmao

[Krojack]

I forget the name of it now but the noob chat channel was really nice for jokes, questions, hunt announces, and etc. I got booted I guess when I hit L80 and I miss it now. The world seems much smaller.

The "noob" channel? Is that how you treat new people to the game?

[Theodric]

The "noob" channel? Is that how you treat new people to the game?

The term in question is often used endearingly. In the context of the rest of his post it's clear he wasn't being negative about the place.