Can we please remove passwords to join channels like World etc?
someone added a password to world chat, what server, this is great. that man deserves a cookie.
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They should remove player made channels altogether. Only thing they are used for is selling gold and trolling.
Seems a bit extreme. They’re optional channels after all.
No lets not.
RMT harms the game. Extremely.
It helps looking for groups. Also sometimes they put passwords on LookingForGroup channel.
No they don’t. They can’t.
LookingForGroup is an actual Blizzard channel. No player can put a password on it or remove players from it.
World is an unofficial channel created and maintained by players, and not Blizzard’s problem.
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Can’t argue with that. But I think custom chat channels probably shouldn’t be banned.
few weeks ago there was a password on LookingForGroup on Whitemane.
Your position does not conform with reality.
No there wasn’t.
You probably typo’d the channel name or something and accidentally tried to join a player-made version. It is literally not possible for there to be a password on the official LFG channel.
Enlighten me to this reality you speak of. All I’ve seen is gold sellers inviting to private channels to sell gold. The 10 mins I speant in world chat? Yea it was pretty much racist barrens chat. So yea. All I seen there was trolling.
Maybe on your server.
On mine they’ve been used properly. Unlike the actual official LookingForGroup channel which actually is a spamfest.
That’s a private, player created channel not an official channel. If there’s a password odds are good you don’t want to be there.
no way, I have a channel with a bunch of people I work with and we use it all the time. We’re all in different guilds.
World chat and gold seller spam are not the only existing or viable uses for private chat channels.
Nope. Just the two reasons most used.
Not even close.
RP realms have often had RP, OOC, RP-Classified, and tavern or event names to facilitate communication.
TBC Raids I went on often had a class lead and a channel for each of our raid’s classes (such as CaFB-priests) where we could discuss builds and gear and rotations, helping get everyone on par.
Before Retail communities, if multi-guild raids were pulled together, a player-created channel was needed instead of a guild channel.
In fact, gold sellers wouldn’t WANT to be in a player-created channel unless they had a high certainty they’d be visible to a broad audience. A well-known private server channel? Sure. Audience is there and proven to not necessarily walk a straight and narrow on Blizzard’s rules. Excellent target.
A player-created channel actually created by an addon to communicate between the addon on multiple player’s system? Not a chance. No one goes to it and reads it. Their spam would be lost in the torrential flood of data.
A player-created channel that is being maliciously locked? Well, that reduces their audience (bad for them), potentially locks them out if the mod isn’t just malicious but also gets annoyed at gold spam (even worse for them). They’d be perfectly happy with no player-created channels, because that would “force” people to stay in General, Trade, and Local to accomplish much communication - and more people in a channel = more audience.
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One on LookingForGroup, or one on LFG?
As Aryxymaraki said, the former is impossible. The latter is very possible–and very “meh” since LFG is only a private channel.
No. Over the years I’ve had guilds that had player created channels for things like class officers and loot council, I’ve even been in a few guilds that had a special channel for just the raid healers so they could call out CDs or other important information to one another without having to tie up vent. I’ve also used player created channels as a way to hang out and talk to groups of friends who were in different guilds.
Just because you have no use for the feature that doesn’t mean it needs to be taken away.