Guild Wars 2

Did Anet said anything about this why this kind of thing isn’t in the game yet?
Whats your (players) opinion about this?

I have no idea what Anet have said about it, but if they ever do add it I’ll turn it off as soon as I log in.

90% would be the nonsense spam-chat we get in LA, the rest would be all the people in all the zones who currently spam map with “Can anyone tell me how to get this vista?” “How do I do this?” “Where is the next story” etc. with no hint of where they are or what they’re talking about, but even more confusing because now you won’t even know what map they’re on and can’t even narrow it down to the ones most people struggle with.

Anyone wanting to actually have a conversation or get practical help will need to stick to /say and /map in order to restrict it to people actually doing similar things.

They should fix the guildchat first. Hate it when I’m switching characters and lose the guildchat history.

I do not want this at all.

Normal map chat can get “loud”, add world chat and it will never ever be quiet again.

Yes there would be an off button but if you do chat in map(world) chat, there is no way you’d be able to follow a conversation.

Just no.

A regional chat would be nice.

Kryta, Ascalon, Shiverpeaks, etc.

I’ve seen it in other games and its not good. I would turn it off.

What a great idea. So it can be spammed non-stop with gold spam.

No.

no thank you- would make any communication imposssible really

Back in beta…

I’m not quite sure. LA is quite loud, but other maps are really really empty. It’s really boring to map complete alone so sometimes I randomly greet the Map I’m on and see if someone replies. If someone replies to me, it’s usually more enjoyable.

On the other hand, there’ll be endless WTS/WTB posts that I’ll probably turn it off. :/

I wouldn’t mind if such chat is added but only for the cities.I love Hoelbrak but it’s so empty there.Connecting the cities would be great

As others have said, this is a bad, bad idea. Do some research on ‘WoW trade chat’ if you want a more specific set of reasons.

If you want much-used hometowns, you should make suggestions to drag people out of Lion’s Arch.

Rynn.1324:

As others have said, this is a bad, bad idea. Do some research on ‘WoW trade chat’ if you want a more specific set of reasons.

I come from WoW so i don’t know what is the problem with it.I find the chat just fine.It never bothered me.

I wouldn’t like it, especially as on my server, there is a guild with over 1500 members, who spam their advertisment at every boss event or gathering on a daily basis. Currently, I only see it at these events, with a few on random quieter maps, but with a world channel I’m sure I’d be seeing it 24/7.

In my last game though, it was a great source of entertainment and drama. But there’s not much to fight over in GW2 because it’s not open world PvP.

I’ll save you server chat.

“Join my guild!”
“Join my party!”
“Buy my gold!”
“Lawl he wears celestial!”
“There’s a guardian with a mace! That’s not part of my wiki build!”
“Your wiki build sucks! I got v1.1 of that wiki build so I know how to play better than you do because someone else told me how to play!”
“Cleric’s FTW!”
“Buy MY gold!”
“Where’s this vista?”
“Help me with this event! It’s a group event in the middle of nowhere that pays 2 silver and costs 5 silver to get there and back!”
“What’s a good build for ranger?”
“Uninstall the game! There’s a good build!”
“Use cleric’s, longbow and get a bear and spam 4 in every dungeon!”
“Pro build!”
“Join my level 30 dungeon! Must be level 80 in full zerker ascended with 21k AP because AC is very very hard!”
“Need guardian for level 1 Fractals because we’re bad at the game!”

Still a good idea?

I don’t know what magical place do you play at, but on Aurora glade the maps are pretty silent, except LA and Queensdale.

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Rynn.1324:

Rynn.1324:

As others have said, this is a bad, bad idea. Do some research on ‘WoW trade chat’ if you want a more specific set of reasons.

I come from WoW so i don’t know what is the problem with it.I find the chat just fine.It never bothered me.

Same with me. Trade chat was for traders, lfg for lfg and guild recruit, world chat was fine. If you would hold back implementing everything based on player behavior and stupidity, this game wouldn’t even exist.

The “Magical place” I play at is a very well-known server called Desolation, where many people guest and don’t even play on their own servers. It’d explain why yours is dead.

It would be a nice feature, especially for small population servers. BUT – they would have to make it turned off by default and a costy item (megaphone?) needed to use it.

As extreme optional that would be fine. Every game with a server wide chat i’ve seen has devolved into a bunch of spam.

The only game I have ever seen that does this well is PWI (yeah, I know…)

They sold an item in the cash shop that was a consumable. If you said something with it, you could talk to the entire server.

While I wouldn’t mind having the option, I would hope that if they ever instituted something like this, it would be expensive enough that it wouldn’t be used indiscriminately. Also, I would hope it has a toggle like all the other “chats” and we could turn it off.

Darkobra.6439:

I’ll save you server chat.

“Join my guild!”
“Join my party!”
“Buy my gold!”
“Lawl he wears celestial!”
“There’s a guardian with a mace! That’s not part of my wiki build!”
“Your wiki build sucks! I got v1.1 of that wiki build so I know how to play better than you do because someone else told me how to play!”
“Cleric’s FTW!”
“Buy MY gold!”
“Where’s this vista?”
“Help me with this event! It’s a group event in the middle of nowhere that pays 2 silver and costs 5 silver to get there and back!”
“What’s a good build for ranger?”
“Uninstall the game! There’s a good build!”
“Use cleric’s, longbow and get a bear and spam 4 in every dungeon!”
“Pro build!”
“Join my level 30 dungeon! Must be level 80 in full zerker ascended with 21k AP because AC is very very hard!”
“Need guardian for level 1 Fractals because we’re bad at the game!”

Still a good idea?

the sad thing is, this is exactly the reason why i stopped caring about dungeons in the first place >_<

I’d just turn it off. Map chat is often bad enough.

Darkobra.6439:

The “Magical place” I play at is a very well-known server called Desolation, where many people guest and don’t even play on their own servers. It’d explain why yours is dead.

Oh THAT server is disgustingly toxic. I avoid it at all cost. So i get your point now.

chuckle

No thank you. I rarely have map chat on; I’d absolutely never have world chat on.