Guild Wars 2

So, for the past 2 years this game has been lacking one simple little thing that could be a very helpful tool for all WvW players, and that tool is a simple SERVER ONLY chat. What do I mean by this? A chat that lets for example – Blackgate server people speak to other blackgate people from blackgate borderland to Eternal Battlegrounds using text chat. Right now the only way to know if a borderland needs help is by swapping maps and asking map chat (if there is a que you wont be able to hop back on your previous map) and by teamspeak 3, and lets face it not everyone gets on teamspeak 3. I think this chat system would not only help Zergs be able to respond to keeps, but havocs could benefit because if there was a smaller group taking things easily on your map you could type in that server chat and pull people off another borderland to come take them out. This chat would not only help call people for defending , but when you get on and enter a borderland you dont know where the action is currently, so you ask server chat and within 30 seconds you know where to go to have fun. New players specifically have a hard time knowing what to do and where to go to find action, so this server chat could help them tremendously. I dont know how hard it would be to implement this chat into the game, but it seems like it would be a simple thing to do. Please think about it and give feed back arenanet.

I’d love server chat. Gone are the days when you could shout out in LA for help in WvW, because of megaservers.

This has been suggested a couple times especially after the megaservers. Would like to see something like this being implemented +1

i asked this in the past when MS hitted, but i guess was super ignored,

YES! well, server based all maps chat for the WvW maps. This must be very easy to manage…

Post in the General Discussion sub… You won’t get any attention here, by the devs that is.

BATMAN.6794:

A chat that lets for example – Blackgate server people speak to other blackgate people from blackgate borderland to Eternal Battlegrounds using text chat

Meh, we’re fine. Probably 80%+ of the people in Blackgate’s WvW maps actually ARE in Teamspeak, with cross-map Commander chat being used daily.

I asked for this feature after the Mega Server went live. I guess the dev’s do not want players actually being able to communicate with the people of there world. Heck, the dev’s should have forum sections for each world on here too. Especially if you could only view the forum for your specific world. Anet is the only one with real time data to where our accounts reside. The dev’s could be doing so much more to help rebuild/build worlds.

I think a lot of people would just end up turning it off because of chatter. But I could see giving commanders an alert system that sends out an alert, but is limited to like once every 10 minutes or something. It would be fairly easy to catch people abusing the system for non WvW purposes and take away their ability to use it.