Guild Wars 2

OK simple add a new chat that lets everyone in your world to see it. So you can talk about concerns of your world server without prying eyes. Also with the addition of the mega-server system we really need this now. And this chat needs to be exclusive only to members of your world server and will operate the same way /guild chat does so that all can see it no matter where in the game they are at. And since anet wants us to all feel connected to our own world, what better way than a chat system dedicated to it.

Advertisements for guilds can be placed here without getting responses from people not even on your server, unless you are looking to recruit from other servers then /map chat would work sense most if not all of the main cities are on mega-servers now. Although I would like to see a UI addition to the guild UI for this, where guild leaders can post a more permanent message and people looking for guilds can browse these messages from the guild UI.

Call-to-Arms could be arranged by Commanders inside WvW using /world to get more people to come help where major pushes are needed to be competitive. This would not tip off your opponents of said activities.

If you feel I have overlooked something that can make this idea even better post your additions and concerns. Please help move this idea forward by posting positive responses and be sure to click the +1 —-—->over here to get Dev’s to see this, unless you disagree.

Already pleaded for it. I believe the thread was locked. +1’d it anyway, because yeah, what in the everloving hizzell were they thinking not implementing this when rolling out megaservers?

For the love of god, we need this so bad.

It’s important for guild recruitment (if your guild does WvW, anyway), but it’s especially important for WvW callouts, which we can no longer do. It would go such a long way to re-uniting servers and fixing a lot of the problems that the megaserver caused.

Do want.

LOL they cant even get /s and /m to work without spam locked after 4 posts, how well do you see this going ?

wildstar has a world chat :x

No thanks. I get enough gold seller spam as it is.

Azure Fang.8605:

No thanks. I get enough gold seller spam as it is.

I do not think you understand how chat works. Gold spammers typically use whisper because it can’t be suppressed.

The other gold sellers that you see do it in map chat, do it because all worlds can see it, and they don’t spam because they supress quickly. Why would they bother with world chat?

Charak.9761:

wildstar has a world chat :x

I hear it’s the first thing you turn off.

A server chat per map sounds fine but entire world? It would be so abused we wouldnt even see normal chat anymore. Definetly will not click that +1 for the pleasure of being spammed to oblivion.

Dawdler.8521:

A server chat per map sounds fine but entire world? It would be so used, we wouldn’t even see normal chat anymore. Definitely will not click that +1 for the pleasure of being spammed to oblivion.

There fixed that for you….
I don’t understand how everyone thinks that they are gonna be spammed from this new idea of chat. Basically, if you do not want to see it, just un-check the /world box, no spam can happen if you do not participate.
Please note if you are worried about gold sellers using this new chat system to reach a broader spectrum of players with only a single advertisement. I’d have to say that this would be a wrong assumption. Think about it, the more people a gold seller spams the faster he will be caught. If a gold seller puts and ad in /world chat, instantly 1000’s of players will report him for gold selling and the stolen account he used may just get locked sooner. The reason they /whisper you is they keep there presence unseen by anet until they get alot of reports of the illegal activities and frankly alot of players don’t try to report or block the account spamming them, so tomorrow the same guy is able to spam you again. See gold sellers have loads of stolen accounts and they will only /whisper a few people before switching to another account and continuing, thus avoiding having all the accounts locked. This idea may very well put in a fast lane for getting gold selling accounts banned and expedite the whole process.

Maybe there is a misunderstanding on how this should be used so here is an example. You are on Blackgate, in your /world chat, all Blackgate people can see and chat about Blackgate no matter where you are in the game. You can use /world chat to ask for help of any Blackgate people where another server could use this information and turn it around against you like in WvW. No one from Jade Quarry can read what is said in Blackgate’s /world chat even if they guest over to Blackgate or if they are in Blackgates mega-server, so commanders can do call-to-arms and say exactly where help is needed without fear of giving that info to the other teams. If using this chat does not apply to you then un-check the /world chat box so it will not be seen.
Also you can still use /say for where ever you are locally, and /map for whatever map you in. These will still allow you communication in those situations with people who are near you and could possibly help you accomplish whatever goals that need help on that level without locking out other servers in PvE.