Guild Wars 2

League of Legends enabled this by default. Fact of the matter is that in any PVP environment, open communication just means trolling and insults. After they enabled it, the reputation for toxicity went down significantly.

It would be a great idea for GW2 as well. So often in rated/unrated spvp matches people like to follow up every kill and death with trollish comments. “condi build is ez mode”, “lol you so ez”, “haha we won 4v5”, etc etc. Not even sure why I bothered writing those out, everyone in pvp is familiar with the behavior.

So yeah, just turn it off?

Absolutely not.

Some of the best pvp moments I have had is conversation with enemy players. Wether it’s a gg after 1v1, some slapstick humor, etc etc…

I remember I was running away from an enemy ranger at B on Skyhammer, and got to the top of the pointed ledge directly above the hammer gate, at half health, and he was like "Don’t do it war! and I jumped and died because I forgot I don’t trait DFA in pvp…

He came down to my corpse to tell me I had so much to live for.

INFACT the system you want is the wvw model and for that exact reason I want it gone. So many times I want to give shout outs to enemies who indirectly helped me or let me pass unmolested through whole zergs because… wel I have no idea why that time… but it was great. and we all /wave d at eachother, it was nice.

TL;DR: no

You are the 1% then. But the 1% of players wanting to be good sports about pvp do not justify the other 99% that is simply a toxic experience.

You can already turn off map chat and say chat if you want, then you never have to know if people are saying anything.