Regarding Shout Chat

[Jeeqbit]

While this is a personal problem, for some reason I just pass out at random times so I often have to tell people "Hey if I don't respond, give me an hour or two and I'll prob wake up and check my log". Before I can reach them though, over the course of an hour I'll see like 10 or 20 shouts advertising for the same thing just at a different location.

It's not hard to scroll up past 10 or 20 messages. I do it all the time.

You can make new tabs that filter out shout, add filters to just show tells and free company chat and stay in those tabs when not hunting.

You could also blacklist the main people doing it or switch server to somewhere with less shouts.

[Gember]

I agree......

[LewdCoffee]

I know it's super difficuly but it's a little annoying to scroll on console and yeah haha point and laugh ps4 user but don't really have the income to afford something better. If you even look funny at the chat box it will reset and your right back to the bottom of the chat

[JohnLakeside]

I mean, as a venue owner myself, we try to limit where and when shouts are done. Yes they may teleport and shout then move onto the next location, but consider, it takes 20 minutes to get every major location where players are likely to be on every server in the data center. I would also like to point out that none of the venues receive any of the money that their particular DJ does, so it's not being done to promote the DJ (or at least not from what I've seen, there may be some shouts with DJ information). You've also got multiple venues vying for attention in the partyfinder. These are community events being held, and just because they're RP venues doesn't mean they should be considered less important than other community events such as hunt trains and the like.

Now, while we recognize that yes it can get annoying for multiple shouts going out, we also know we can't please everyone. Limiting the chat would defeat the purpose of the chat. You may as well simply remove it entirely if you had weekly or daily limits. The entire purpose of shout chat is to advertise. Be it a hunt train, FC recruitment, or venue advertisement. No one to my knowledge actually uses shout chat unironically to actually chat with everyone.

In short, I don't really see it hurting anyone. For me personally, there's so many shouts that I sort of just gloss over them, and I have a tab where shouts are turned off when I'm actively talking to individuals, talking in say chat, or talking to the FC. Then I have a tab that has literally everything and I actively switch between the two depending on what the situation calls for.

I unironically use Shout chat to try to chat with people when I'm out in the lonely overworld MSQing. Now that I think about it, I'm the only person I've ever seen do that. Makes me wish there were more socialcels in this game.

[BigCheez]

This blocks the overwhelming majority of spam.

[CuteBucket]

You can cut down on 99.99% percent of venue ads by simply not hanging out around the Aetheryte in one of the three main starter cities. If you're meeting up with friends to go talk to them, then just...meet literally anywhere else? And if you're looking to mingle with strangers in a more public place, well, you may just have to put up with some ads or use some term filters.

It's just kind of a non-issue to me because there's so many ways to avoid it.

[Meifala]

Not that it does anything about spam but I wish we could have more and more customization about our chat channels. If I could quarantine yell and shout to it's own tab and be able to tab over when I need it for a hunt train that would go a long way for me personally.

[Burmecia]

any club advertiser will be put straight to the blacklist

[DiaDeem]

This is kinda funny to me...

I remember my first time logging into Gridania on a PS3 over a decade ago. Chat was going so fast and was so full of spam, that it looked more like Twitch chat than it did an MMO chat (no, really), and I genuinely thought that's just how chat in XIV was.

If you were there, you know. If you weren't there, you have no idea how bad it was, and how much better it now is.

[SXTC]

I think most of us have learned to ignore shout since it's usually bots/gil sellers...