Chat won't work during dungeons or single player quests.Follow

I don't mind it too much. When I'm in a dungeon, or duty finder, I'm there. If I wanted to chat with my LS mates, I can do so over mumble. Given the game's pacing, I really want to spend my typing time focused on the group I am with during that time anyways.

If they develop a feature that allows cross server chatting, I'm fine with that as well. I can see it be an interesting feature, but not a necessary one.

Major oversight, hopefully fixed sooner rather than later. Hopefully there will be enough LS runs where it won't matter as much, but there won't be the perfect ratio of tank-healers-damage all the time.

I agree. No way to ask for help outside of the instance? No way to continue a conversation you may have been having prior to your queue popping? Bad idea all around.

This feels like one of those instances where SE tries to reinvent the wheel instead of just taking what others have already found works. I really hope this is something Yoshi-P revisits.

I am just wondering what PS3 users can do here.

PC users can make the argument that it doesn't matter because they're using Skype, but PS3 users are restricted to text chat to talk to their friends and Linkshell mates. There's basically no communication options for them, and at that point you are barely playing an MMO.

Even if you connect to voice chat through an external device, bleh... I would like to be able to Linkshell chat and /tell as well.

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 1:33pm by Killua125

You can only speak to the party from what i see. No ls no tell no nothing.

That's terrible. Hope they fix it.

Yeah. I have to be honest that it's a game breaker for me. I always stay connected with my friends using whispers (/tells).

I would feel naked in an MMO if my communication with them was cut off.

There are several free-to-play games with cross-server dungeons like this, and you can continue chatting as normal.

It should be addressed and I hope they look into it before the game launches.

Just duty finder, because it's grabbing all the people from different worlds and throwing them onto a separate world altogether.

I want to be able to ***** about all the terrible groups I find myself in to my LS. >.>

Killua...

I'm having a hard time with this one, I really am. You've been consistently negative about the game. I'm having difficulty believing that this thing in particular alone is what's breaking the game for you.

Now, I want to believe you, I really do. But just soo much experience with you is still souring the small turn around that's occurred of late.

So, I'm going to pretty much just flat out plead with you - don't let a technical issue, especially one like this, be a deal-breaker. If you really are turning around, leave it as feedback, and, heck, link it here, I'll support it. But if you've truly gotten over the other problems only to be stuck like this - it just seems wrong. Now if this is just the straw that breaks the camels back, I'll concede to your opinion. But there's a lot of good that's been done with the game, and Yoshida has shown a trend to listen to and address issues as they are brought up. There's no real point to cut and run on something that could likely be improved upon, especially after so much has been done.

I'm aware of it, and it doesn't bother me. Mainly because I find that sort of chat to be a major distraction. However, I do agree that it should be optional, not mandatory.

Thinking about it from a programming aspect, however, this isn't something that is going to have a quick turn-around even if they address it. If My inference to their system is correct, it requires an entire re-write of their chat structure and coding. The problem I see in a situation like that is perhaps it being an issue of chat latency because of the cross-server issues. Unless of course they make it a relay framework, in which the latency would only be applied while inside an instance.

Either case, we're talking a major patch, or even an expansion before such a restructuring could feasibly be done, on top of some heavy convincing to dedicate that amount of man-hours to it.

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 2:56pm by Hyrist

Everyone has their own personal breaking points and specific hang-ups. No need to insult them. Killua is speaking on a personal level, not system wide, not assuming for others. There's no point in criticizing it.