Guild Wars 2

After all this time, does chat still really default to the last text you sent?

So if I am in some long discussion in /guild or /party, and I reply to someone who whispers me, then my default channel becomes whispering that person?

1) Does any other game work this way?
2) I know I am old school, but am I the only one who ever types to multiple people?
3) How can this still not have been changed over the past several patches? Is it just me?

And your suggestion is, I only see a complaint in that post?
AFAIK that is how it works in every other game, (not only MMO’s but any game with a chat function), and cant really see how else it should work

GummiBear.2756:

And your suggestion is, I only see a complaint in that post?
AFAIK that is how it works in every other game, (not only MMO’s but any game with a chat function), and cant really see how else it should work

In every other MMO, you are able to set a default channel (via toggle if you like).

This means that everything you type will automatically go to the channel you have set as default, unless you prepend it with a /gu /t /p /m etc. In which case it will be directed appropriately.

I’m honestly confused how this isn’t obvious to everyone else, although it’s probably because I started playing MMOs back in the days before voice chat, when in game text was the ONLY way we could coordinate.

Yes setting a default channel would be nice, but being able to change the channel on the fly is also nice. What isn’t so nice, in my opinion is that reply to X is a channel.