Quote Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX View Post
If a company does not have a chat, it would be non-functional. If a company does have a chat, it is able to fulfill everything a Linkshell can (since Linkshells do nothing but give players social connections), rendering Linkshells defunct.
Most games have a heirarchy of systems

Faction->Guild->Party->Player

Alliance->Guild->Party->Player

I don't see what your deal is. If we only had a game with features which existed to fulfill the bare minimum requirements to 'suffice', then we'd just be playing by ourselves and our altnerate personality disorders.