Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

please allow us to create and manage private chat channels. Since the flexibility in the guild system results in characters (of friends or people in an “alliance” e.g.) being spread out over several guilds, it would be a massive help to be able to have everybody in one chat channel. Friends could then represent whatever guild they want and still be able to comfortably chat with one another.

I’ll buy that for a dollar!!

(Stupid 15 character minimum message length, all I really wanted to type was /signed)

Yes please. Setting up custom chat channels would be great.

Though please allow us to report extreme abuse of such channels. One of the key issues I’ve had with them in other MMO’s is that all too often they were considered to be player moderated, which in turn led to nasty and spiteful cliques popping up from time to time.

Of course, as any abusive behavior in game can and should be reported, so should behavior in such channels that diminishes another players game experience.

DDO has this feature. Anyone can create a private channel and they can be password protected so only people in the know can join.

The channels are also persistent across logout.

I actually came here to post this very suggestion, so am glad to learn I’m not alone in this desire. I would love to have the ability to create channels so that I can communicate with a specific group of people regardless of what guild we’re each in. This was a widely used and extremely popular feature in the last game I played, City of Heroes, and I think it would be just as applicable to GW2. The ability to join multiple guilds, while wonderful, does not really address the same use cases as private channels.

While we can belong to multiple guilds, we can only chat with the guild we’re currently representing.

So, yah, this game needs player-made chat channels, with the option to make them public or private, and with some other mod abilities built in (invite, kick, assign privs, etc.).

The other route would be to create some sort of guild coalition channel, but I think that’d be an inferior solution.

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You got my tripple support on this suggestion!

I would also like to see private/player-created chat channels implemented. I also play City of Heroes (while it lasts), and having the global channels there greatly enriches my game experience. I can’t help but think it would do the same here.

Yes please. I want this. I’m in a PvE guild and a WvW guild. I’d like to see the “hey lets run X” messages when I’m in WvW.

I’ve given whole-hearted support to this idea every time it’s come up. I continue to do so. Please, ArenaNet, please let us know if this is something you are working on. I’m missing a great group of people in two allied guilds because I don’t want to miss the people in my main guild.

You have my signature. I would also like this feature.

I also suffer of this with the bunch of people I’m playing with. Especially in PvP environment where people want to wear their own tabards or have their cool tags shown it’s impossible to have a proper group chat as it is.

I do like the flexible guild system, but please add the channel function preferably with some moderation or even a possibility to follow several guilds’ chats at the same time even when not representing.

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i even buy commander book only for chat purpose, the only problem for this temp ‘solution’ is u need to be on the same map as the comander before joining the squad and get private chanel for chat,

Oh, so there WERE such topic already. Cool!

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We need custom chat channels, really. Please. It’s common thing.

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It would be great to be able to make a channel just for guild officers so we can discuss things without having to be in a team together. That way we can continue on doing whatever other things we were doing without interruptions (ie: dungeons, helping others, etc).

I definitely support this motion!

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This is incredibly important, both for roleplayers who want both IC and OOC chat, or who might want a global, non-guild restricted chat for roleplay while doing other things, and also for people who want to communicate with one another while representing other guilds.

Really, it should be a given that this sort of thing is available in a MMO, with the myriad social situations that might arise. We need it, and we need to at least know if it is being worked on, please.

/signed. This may be old but the point still stands. This would be an incredible way to allow the community to build bonds with one another across multiple maps. WoW has it and it’s the only chat channel I’ve ever used as did CoH when that game existed as OP mentioned.

We need the ability to be able to create channels or at least have a general channel besides /map so that us chatty people who wish to talk to others can.. without annoying the ones who don’t want to.