Since Blizzard is open to some changes in the name of community, lets remove the overwhelmingly unpopular (no polls needed, as the vocal minority would raid them) global chat channels. It’s much more immersive to gather for a quest in a inn or an entrance to a dungeon. I don’t like to causal gameplay of just sitting in major cities spamming chat all day before heading out to the dungeon. I am an old-school MMORPG player who wants to see WoW return to its RPG roots. Plus, where is lore justification of being able to talk to other heroes across the globe instantly like that? It doesn’t make any sense.
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You’re welcome to turn off chat if you don’t want it 
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Ah but other players are still using it, and ruins the experience. You see, players will always take the path of least resistance, but in the end, this is best for them and the community.
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No, because if they are available then everyone would just use it. For my socializing experience I need those channels gone. It’s ruining my immersion.
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Oh, just like Blizzard’s decision to withhold RDF then. I guess you just have to deal with it 
Only /say should exist. That would be pretty funny. No whispers, no guild chat. Nothing.
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Opie liked your post and apparently needs sarcasm tagged for him.
RP walking everywhere too.
No movement assists of any kind.
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While personally I like the global channel /LookingForGroup as it used to function, I agree with your argument. It isn’t my preference, but it makes sense that such channels would have to be removed to support your preference.
and learning from EVE W-Space, in really dangerous zones, there should be no local chat either. and FFA PVP enabled. friendly fire and everything. Loot corpse on death etc.
honestly would be kinda neat if not for everybody just cheating with discord 
I agree, any form is typing is immersion breaking, there should only be voice chat allowed otherwise social interaction is DOA
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counterstrike local voice chat only…
then port to console.
billion dollar in a quarter.
you’re welcome.
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If you want to /yell you need to break a certain amount of decibels too
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i can’t think of anything more immersion breaking than the voices of the people who play this game
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but dude. do you know how high that guy is right now?
oh, don’t worry, dude… he’ll tell you. he’ll tell you.
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In my opinion chat is no longer of acceptable quality and needs to be improved.
Many guilds advertise discord, which is telling to the issue. I think discord is trash personally and I also think people coming together outside the game to be inside the game — is a big problem for Blizzard.
Discord is a threat to blizzard, they don’t control it. All guilds chats should naturally go through gchat, ect. You can’t protect children playing your video game when they’re lured into private chats. This is a real threat that I have seen take place over the years.
Absolutely nobody should be able to spam chat anymore without serious consequences.
I could go for that. Would improve community. Only way to talk and organize would be Gchat. Making stronger larger guilds.
My other thought would be to flesh them out more adding in administration so they can be community moderated. Either way some changes to chat would be nice.
That nasally, high pitched, arrogant, know-it-all talking at you… " you noob, you dont even have 5500 gearscore, haha and you want to pug this…"
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