Guild Wars 2

• I aplogize if someone already thought of this.

Universal chat channel

The community in Guild Wars 2 is good, but not great since players aren’t really communicating that much. In some other MMORPGS the communication was really great and more importantly – constant. Now I’m not proposing drastic changes since it’s really not my place and I believe the developers of the game know their stuff.

Here’s my porposition: A chat channel that contains all of the Guild Wars 2 world (could even be named the World channel), so a player in Metrica Province could actually talk with players in the Black Citadel etc. I know that the /guild and /party channels don’t have zone limmitations, but the “World” channel would allow the players to speak to any of the other players (who aren’t in the same party etc.).
I believe that it would keep the conversation flowing in even less populated zones and if it would get to be too much for some, they could just disable it, like any other channel.

Please consider.

IMO, it’d be an unreadable mess with 10s of thousands of players blurting out whatever comes to mind, and their posts disappearing the instant they’re posted; but if you want all that, fine. I can just keep it off my filters.

When designing a chat system, this is always considered.

not a bad idea, but i would expand this to allow players to create custom channels like in that other game… cough WoW. I had like 4 different channels i’d use for just my own guild.

So would people in WVW be able to use this universal chat system? It could break wvw with people giving away zerg positions, also smaller groups for zergs to decimate. I guess if it was disabled in wvw it could work. Games like diablo 3 where they make a new universal chat channel when each one fills up, making each chat channel full, and not too full for them to be too many people talking at once…

No, I dont think this is needed, as Dual said.

What would be a good idea is a channel that would reach people who are in your guild but are not representing.

Well channels can be disabled …

It’s actually rather simple, players who don’t want to be bothered by it can simply disable it. It wouldn’t affect players who oppose it, yet would benefit the ones who want it!

• also Scrambles actually has a good idea. I’ve seen it in other games and it’s great