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Where in my post did i insult anyone? I just stated that i believe killua is wrong and overly pessimist.

Why do you assume that because you can do it in another MMORPG that it should be able to be done in this one?

Every MMORPG, or any game for that matter, is coded differently and allows very different things. The reason that some games are able to do it is because the "chat" is actually a seperate system similar to IRC or Skype where your account logs in and out of different channels depending on where you are. The connection to the "chat" server is seperate from the game. So moving from instance to instance might change where in the game you are, but not which chat server you are connected too.

It might be that in FFXIV they are handling all that locally on the actual instance server and don't have connections back to the original. This isn't bad per se, instead it is just different. Seems like an unusual limitation though, hopefully it will get fixed, but it might not be easy.

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 3:20pm by joreallean

To be honest joreallean it is wrong do not try to explain it as "different". If it was different in a good way no one would mind but this is not the case.

But besides that, now that i think about it, Are you certain you can't use /ls fc talk? Cause in phase 2 i am pretty sure i could now that i think about it. And i also saw a lot of posts in beta stating the same with me. Meaning you wont be able to use /tells only.

Still annoying as hell but usually your friends are in your ls so if you can talk in the ls half of the problem is "fixed". That doesn't mean of course that SE shouldn't take a look at it again.

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 3:13pm by Teravibe

So only good things can be different? This is one of the main problems with MMO players now. If the game doesn't pull in all the good features from everyone other MMO that you've played and do things the way every other MMO does it then its bad. The truth is it IS different. Maybe it was a design choice and you just don't like it, that's fine, but you're not the developer and don't get to make those decisions. Just like you can't tell them what to do, you shouldn't be telling people on the forums what they should or shouldn't be commenting on.

I mean if an MMO doesn't have a full on PVP system these days there is ALWAYS a part of the market that rages against the game. Games aren't allowed to be original or even specialized for a particular type of player because then the game is OBVIOUSLY making gross mistakes by not targeting you as a customer. Once upon a time game developers made games they wanted to make and they stood on their own merit. Now developers just pander to the complainers until the games lose originality and diversity.

I doubt that this is a design choice at its base, but that doesn't make it a huge flaw either unless it means something to you. That doesn't mean it is a huge flaw for everyone.

You are free to have your opinion for this matter as everyone of course but why are you defending a feature of the game that is in fact bad for the gamers experience. We are not talking about pvp or pve here we are talking for the simple feature that EVERY MMO out there should have....communication. You should be able to talk to anyone anywhere you want that is the core thing of an MMO.

Yes i want an MMO to borrow features from other MMOs that showed that help the player. Talking between players should go without saying its not "targeting you as a customer" thing. Every player in an MMO should be free to talk whenever he wants.

Well i still believe its not a game breaker but its stupid and annoying as hell.

seems like alot of work to patch a broken DF when that effert could be used to fix it.

Rumor mill going around that it's only /tells that are being locked out, not LS, not Free Company chat. So you're ok that far Killua.

I thought this was only with DF not with the way were making groups now. All chat should work fine when we make groups with people on our server. So we cant test it till they release DF