FF14 should have a global chat system

[Skiros]

One of the beauties of MMORPGs is going online and watching drama unfold over all kinds of stuff. In just a few hours in Lost Ark's zone chat, I witnessed people debating economics, vaccines, China, censorship, capitalism and getting real mad and tilted at each other. There just isn't the same vigor in FF14. You can feel the energy pumping in the zone chat as people pour their soul into crafting witty insults and arguments over something that literally doesn't matter. I wish it happened more on FF14 because that energy is definitely there. I see it every day on the forums and subreddits! We can harness that power and create meaningful, player-driven content if we just made a global chat system for people to display their sincerely held unpopular opinions about all kinds of things!

[Snorky]

One of the beauties of MMORPGs is going online and watching drama unfold over all kinds of stuff. In just a few hours in Lost Ark's zone chat, I witnessed people debating economics, vaccines, China, censorship, capitalism and getting real mad and tilted at each other. There just isn't the same vigor in FF14. You can feel the energy pumping in the zone chat as people pour their soul into crafting witty insults and arguments over something that literally doesn't matter. I wish it happened more on FF14 because that energy is definitely there. I see it every day on the forums and subreddits! We can harness that power and create meaningful, player-driven content if we just made a global chat system for people to display their sincerely held unpopular opinions about all kinds of things!

No thank you

[Jeeqbit]

Shout chat exists.

[Bearded]

Create a Linkshell for spam - invite others wanting to engage in this - problem sorted and no dev time needed.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

One of the beauties of MMORPGs is going online and watching drama unfold over all kinds of stuff. In just a few hours in Lost Ark's zone chat, I witnessed people debating economics, vaccines, China, censorship, capitalism and getting real mad and tilted at each other. There just isn't the same vigor in FF14. You can feel the energy pumping in the zone chat as people pour their soul into crafting witty insults and arguments over something that literally doesn't matter. I wish it happened more on FF14 because that energy is definitely there. I see it every day on the forums and subreddits! We can harness that power and create meaningful, player-driven content if we just made a global chat system for people to display their sincerely held unpopular opinions about all kinds of things!

You just made the perfect points against having a global chat.
When I log in to play, the last thing I want to see is "economics, vaccines, China, censorship, capitalism and getting real mad and tilted at each other".

[MistakeNot]

One of the beauties of MMORPGs is going online and watching drama unfold over all kinds of stuff.

I wouldn't call it beauties. Horrors is more like it.
Global chats in MMOs are usually so full of stupidity and ignorance that anyone reading them for long would lose some IQ points just by association with such idiocy.
No thanks. The only good thing with global chats is that you can usually turn them off and ignore them.

[hynaku]

Kinda already does the novice network.

[Jin-]

Agree. Global chat is nice. No matter the time you never feel lonely xD

[Larirawiel]

You could also use Discord for this.



Cheers

[SenorPatty]

One of the beauties of MMORPGs is going online and watching drama unfold over all kinds of stuff. In just a few hours in Lost Ark's zone chat, I witnessed people debating economics, vaccines, China, censorship, capitalism and getting real mad and tilted at each other. There just isn't the same vigor in FF14. You can feel the energy pumping in the zone chat as people pour their soul into crafting witty insults and arguments over something that literally doesn't matter. I wish it happened more on FF14 because that energy is definitely there. I see it every day on the forums and subreddits! We can harness that power and create meaningful, player-driven content if we just made a global chat system for people to display their sincerely held unpopular opinions about all kinds of things!

I see this whenever I play SWTOR annually for 2-3 months. Day after day after day of all this non-stop.

You don't want this in FF14.