General Chat

[Luv]

In the past 3+ years that I have been playing I have very rarely seen rediculous converstaions in general chat. Occasionally you get the people who can't help themselves, but I could go days without seeing anyone type anything in there at all.
Since free to play started the general chat is reminding me very much of being on WoW. I have played that on and off and one of the things that annoyed me the most about that game was the immature and stupid conversations taking place in general chat.
I was recently in the marketplace and was watching general chat. Totally innappropriate.
What is said during parties or guild chat is a bit different. Generally you know the other people and how far the conversation can be pushed. Spamming complete garbage in GC could be going to any number of people who could be offended.
Can we try and keep it a bit cleaner please?? Just my opinion. No I am not one to get easily offended, as those who know me would tell you. But why should people who do find it offensive have to put up with it.
I am sure they really don't care about your bunghole! <waits for the stupid Chuck Norris jokes to begin>
All people who type the name Chuck Norris in GC should be immediately banned. lol.

[Lithic]

Worst case, just select each of your chat windows and remove general chat, that way you will never see it. Would be nice if everyone could act with some maturity and civility, but this IS the internet after all...

[Lorien_the_First_One]

you watch general? why?

But if it bugs you and they are being rude /report it

If they arent doing anything that violates the TOS...then who cares

[issiana]

well i can understand your concerns Luv, but look at this side...

For ages the late nighters (myself included) often felt like wandering a ghost town. Unless you where in a group the social interaction was nil. and thats the primary reason i play mmo's - the social stuff.

Now days.. omg.. theres so much banter and interactions going on it feels like a bustling place ( and it probly is, lol) yeah sure theres going to be some smack talk that i'd rather not join in on, but then theres the real gems that make me stop questing and just sit and chat with ppl.

Last night was a case in pt for me when someone asked a question in the advice window. i wasnt doing much so anserwed the question. what followed was a rather nice chat about various game stuff. Thats the sort of thing i liked, haveing nice chats with ppl and forging nice in game relationships. i know i'l; be looking this person up in game if i need some questing help simply due to the way they responded and i think they'll do likewise to me.

Thats the joy of the global chat system. its another tool that you can use to find out the jerks your'd rather NOT accept into your group, and to find those you would HAVE.

btw i have all chats disabled when in private instances to help reduce the spamming and so only the party gets my attention, and give me some break if its to much garbage talk.

[HeavenlyCloud]

well i can understand your concerns Luv, but look at this side...

For ages the late nighters (myself included) often felt like wandering a ghost town. Unless you where in a group the social interaction was nil. and thats the primary reason i play mmo's - the social stuff.

Now days.. omg.. theres so much banter and interactions going on it feels like a bustling place ( and it probly is, lol) yeah sure theres going to be some smack talk that i'd rather not join in on, but then theres the real gems that make me stop questing and just sit and chat with ppl.

Last night was a case in pt for me when someone asked a question in the advice window. i wasnt doing much so anserwed the question. what followed was a rather nice chat about various game stuff. Thats the sort of thing i liked, haveing nice chats with ppl and forging nice in game relationships. i know i'l; be looking this person up in game if i need some questing help simply due to the way they responded and i think they'll do likewise to me.

Thats the joy of the global chat system. its another tool that you can use to find out the jerks your'd rather NOT accept into your group, and to find those you would HAVE.

btw i have all chats disabled when in private instances to help reduce the spamming and so only the party gets my attention, and give me some break if its to much garbage talk.

+1 Just cause you made me remember that there's nice people in the world.

I never look at general/advice/trade chats party/guild/userchannels is all i choose to see.

[Spisey]

+1 rep as well. I don't like Blah being sad though ...

Argo is full of hatred....

[Tabun]

+1 rep as well. I don't like Blah being sad though ...

Argo is full of hatred....

I love you spisey

[Jonny_D]

+1 Just cause you made me remember that there's nice people in the world.

I never look at general/advice/trade chats party/guild/userchannels is all i choose to see.

+1 rep as well. I don't like Blah being sad though ...

Argo is full of hatred....

couple of wuss'es
/stuffs them into the same locker

[cdemeritt]

Yes, it was amazing to see, the Wavecrest was packed last night, korthos was crawling with people... It was good to see, and I didn't mind answering the same question several times. I just sort of stood there and answered what I could...
The down side is that a lot will have come from WoW, and be bringing that mindset here, in reguards to the chat. Even had a few "Trolls" in chat too.... but it is a downside I can live with.... once I joined a party to give them a hand, I switched from GC to PC, and didn't hear anything more. all in all, not the end of the world.

[HeavenlyCloud]

couple of wuss'es
/stuffs them into the same locker

+1 Cause you know you miss me.

[Jonny_D]

+1 Cause you know you miss me.

yeah but I have returning ammo, and eventually my aim will get better

[Xanthain]

Just pull your gen chat out of your main window and put it back in, then remove incoming gen chat from all other windows. That way its at the back and you never have to look at it again unless you want to

[Dark_Helmet]

Yeah, the joys of F2P... and what comes from freeloaders. It is a balance to accept this burden with grouping with more players (personally, I think it is the new content driving the groups - especially with the full group bugs going on).

In the very early days of launch, there was a small amount of players who put inane stuff in general chat, but you didn't see the general chat all over the place like it is now so it wasn't as much of an issue.

Unfortunantly, I now see people providing the wrong/stupid info in trade and advice channels just to amuse themselves. Everyone's "solution" is to remove them if you don't like them, which defeats the purpose of the channels themselves (helping people).

Hopefully, they go to a self-moderation style where if enough people report the same chat line that went out in these public channels, that the person gets banned until a moderator can review for re-instatement.

Trying to report them all would be a full time job, so I hope it starts dieing down as they weed out the unwelcome people. I see straight cuss words in general chat now by some users - and for no other reason than thier vocabulary is limited.

[Tymoriel_Ayreweaver]

In the past 3+ years that I have been playing I have very rarely seen rediculous converstaions in general chat. Occasionally you get the people who can't help themselves, but I could go days without seeing anyone type anything in there at all.
Since free to play started the general chat is reminding me very much of being on WoW. I have played that on and off and one of the things that annoyed me the most about that game was the immature and stupid conversations taking place in general chat.
I was recently in the marketplace and was watching general chat. Totally innappropriate.
What is said during parties or guild chat is a bit different. Generally you know the other people and how far the conversation can be pushed. Spamming complete garbage in GC could be going to any number of people who could be offended.
Can we try and keep it a bit cleaner please?? Just my opinion. No I am not one to get easily offended, as those who know me would tell you. But why should people who do find it offensive have to put up with it.
I am sure they really don't care about your bunghole! <waits for the stupid Chuck Norris jokes to begin>
All people who type the name Chuck Norris in GC should be immediately banned. lol.

Its a game, who cares. If you don't like it then do not open the general window.

[Deusxmachina]

For the one or two times someone did some decent cursing in general and someone else said aloud they took offense to it, I simply stated that cursing in chat is a good way to get reported and be given an unwanted vacation from the game. Suddenly, there was less cursing.

[bartcom2000]

I am CHUCK NORRIS!!

[Donnie]

I mean this in the least rude way possible:

You'll get over it.