I've submitted 3 tickets over the past 4 weeks and haven't received a response from SE yet. I got an E-Mail on Monday 9/23/2013 stating they would contact me within 2 business days (48 hours) and now it is Saturday.

On to my problem.

People cannot see what i say in chat. I will list what DOES work and what does NOT work.

Works:
1)Shout
2)Say
3)Party Chat(ONLY in Duty Finder)

Does NOT Work:
1)Tells
2)Free Company
3)Party(when NOT in Duty Finder)
4)Linkshell
5)Yells

This was NOT a problem during Beta and at the very start of launch, it just started one day, I needed someone to craft me something and I realized no one could see my tells. I have reverted my settings back to default to no avail, although I have no idea who would create a setting that would disable OTHER people seeing your chat. My next step is to reinstall the game, but I would like the issue to be addressed rather than put a band-aid over it. I'm so curious as to how the hell this is happening.

My Specs:
Windows 7 Home
12GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
Intel i7 Quad-core 930 @ 3.07 GHz
NVidia GeForce GTX 470
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB HDD

Would really like to be able to communicate with people, it's so frustrating.

Sorry if this has been posted/solved many times, didn't see it pop up in search, and I've /shouted in game several times and no one has heard of this issue. I hope its something really stupid.