Chat needs updated to render modern unicode. All these other updates are great but if I can’t send crying cat emoji natively, then it’s all vain.
Or these guys…
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The Dracthyr emotes are the best part of this forum and just more evidence of their superiority.
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No thanks. Chat in game is already pretty stupid, don’t need even more stupidity.
that said, =^…^= Meow
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Shouldn’t a goat be more… screamy?
More than that, it needs in game translation from other languages so we can all communicate properly no matter where we’re from. Granted crying cat emoji’s are universal, but for the rest we need a translator!
Modern AI based translation is exceptionally good, no reason not to implement it these days.
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Chat without stupid icons is a superior feature, not a problem in need of rectification.
Not me, but I’d imagine some people will complain that they are used for trolling/harassment.
I mean they got rid of quite a few emotes for that reason.
Cant have nice things.
Exactly, which is why we shouldn’t have them. Saves us the issue of them having to remove them later.
I think there needs to be a hard character limit and link limit too. Tired of having my nearly four inch tall chat window completely filled up by the links of one dude in Trade.
but. but. but. that already exists?
I always leave Trade Services and spin off General and Trade to their own chat window, along with loot (since personal loot in MoP remix spams chat).
Enhanced and modern chat are already implemented through UIs that overhaul the UX. It would be great to have the Blizzard UI but a modern chat.
Adding {skull}{skull}{skull}{skull}{skull} to a chat is already there, so asking for the ability to type custom transliteration characters is no worse.
You know what else I love? A friend sends me a video link or Wowhead page link as a Battle Net whisper but I have to alt tab to the launcher to click the link. All Blizzard substructures but an annoyance for UX.
(Correction, modern UI addons trigger replacement strings to inject emoji instead of sending natively, so it is an antiquated communication layer.)
OH I know they added one, just make it smaller.
There is absolutely no need for you to make a gigantic paragraph of text and links that fill a chat window that’s already larger than normal. Especially when you can’t scroll up to see it well due to some weirdness with how scrolling won’t show some messages when you scroll up it.
I use an addon for the link thing.
I like to have trade on, services on Sargeras spam so fast you can’t even read the messages so I turn that one off. One person sending a message there triggers everyone to do it so theirs is the last scrolled off and it just creates a disaster. They’re all for this one damn website anyway.
But trade amuses me. It’s like ESO zone chat. Having chat there lets me feel like there’s players around and not just really bad AI.
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I have chat mostly turned off.
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As a fellow player, I sometimes think I am actually just a bad AI myself.
Proximity voice in New World was an absolute disaster but I loved it.
LOL!!
Sometimes I wish the other players were bad AI(I’m having really bad memories of the proving grounds healer challenge) but alas, they’re not.
I almost wish there was a Blizzard “Social” channel in cities, so Trade could be treated by its own thing, but Social could be for those player interactions.
I fully agree with you, that those small interactions with others who share this goofy little fantasy world as an interest with you really builds up to help feel like a member of a group–a community.
When Metzen said something to the tune of “come home” at last Blizzcon, I think there’s something there with trying to encourage people to interact with each other. Having also seen Last Epoch global chat turn into flame wars though, there is an extent where even Ignore features aren’t enough (trolls start arguments with new players, and then a revolving door of players comment on the troll’s bait).
Everquest 2 when I played it, had level chats. 1-9, then one for every 10 level bracket plus one for level cap only.
1-9 chat was visible to everyone, and so everyone used it… and it was global. And my word, even on my roleplaying server it was an unmitigated disaster sometimes, but it was BEAUTIFUL.
It’s nice to know there’s people there sometimes.
And then there’s times in which you wish they weren’t real. Usually in the “I can’t believe an actual human made that bone headed decision” context.