Full official write up for the last Letter from the ProducerFollow

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/64478-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-VIII-Q-A-Summary-%2808-23-2013%29?p=1031492#post1031492

I know we had a thread on it, but here's the official post in case you were interested.

He's talking about people flaming others for poor performance/essentially anything. Maybe take a step back and think about what that means for the community.

Are you seriously defending that?

Some people are mean so let's stop everyone from chatting? Holy crap, the fanboying is strong here.

I agree with Yoshi because there is no need to send /tells when you can say it right in party chat. If you need to send /tells and feel you cannot communicate in party chat, there's a reason why. It's usually this reason that leads to harassment. It's less likely to attack someone in party chat, that's all there is to it.

As they said, be nice and they'll consider it. Think of it as unlocking new content with kindness.

Just admit that you're annoyed by the authoritarian principle of the restriction, and not the actual mechanics of it, and people might give you the time of day on this one.

edit: okay okay, you sort of already did admit that earlier. what can i say, i'm just killing time here. seriously though, it's really not a big deal.

Edited, Aug 23rd 2013 10:01pm by Llester

Yes, but I know that dungeons are the only instance I would most likely want to send someone a tell (And as a healer, I usually don't have the time). During CS's and instanced missions, I'm happy Tells are blocked, I don't need that distracting me.

They're blocked in all other instances too so I don't know what you're "booming" for.

You've tested that? Either way stop crapping on my fun or I'll mute you and leave you to stew until Launch.

Ok, boredom I can understand. Seriously people, you should come check out IRC, we have a guy making a pretty cool IRC bot in addition to my own (she's named Minfilia) that tells us server status, does XIVDB lookups, etc.

there really isn't a need to send anyone tells during a dungeon run anyway. Your supposed to be focused on your dungeon, and it would be a little disrespectful to the other people in the party who are trying their best to complete it, when your not paying attention talking to your buddy about whatever and performing poorly.

I think even in ffxi or the instances in 1.0 the most ive ever said to someone was "i'll let you know later i'm in [insert activity here] right now".

A simple solution (from the player's side) to prevent harassment would be to just right click the name in chat and block tells from that person. Given that other games have allowed you to right-click a name in chat and ignore said person, I wouldn't think it would be too much of a programming leap to be able to just block tells. That way you can still communicate in party chat and the party can serve to police harassment in chat.

I've never played an MMO on a console, but I'd think there could be some method to do the same instead of right clicking.

Not being allowed to send tells inside a dungeon just seems restrictive and annoying to me. While most of the time you may be too busy to chat with a friend, there's always going to be down times when someone is afk or 1/2 the group died or whatever.