Least Social MMO I've ever played.

[Technodude]

Talking about hostile...i don't know what is about that smiley face in your avatar... but it makes me want to kill puppies.

[hydraham]

-Not 1 person has used chat yet.
-No chat bubbles
-No Zone Chat
-People wont even revive you 90% of the time.

The revival thing is quite possibly the most frustrating thing ever.

I cannot count how many times i have been dying while 30 other players just run past me without reviving.. It infuriates me to no end.

[ramsdellcp]

keep this thread going and more people post about how they agree, the more the better! Maybe we will see this issue as a top priority on Nathan's blog about what their agendas are for the day. the chat needs a total revamping, linkable items to chat, clan chat, trade chat, zone chat, global chat and lfg chat. and for god sakes adjust the delay on chat text disappearing to something like 5 mins or so. make the chat window one window with messages, not a bunch of separate boxes with messages. c'mon trion... just port over your chat system from rift, that is a fine chat system.

[Binny45]

Sadly it is a result of the decreased reward for people who DO play with others. Why bother when you can do everything solo? There needs to be some sort of mechanism that gives a great benefit to a party for teaming up. Long gone are the days of people getting together because "Hey! I can play with other ACTUAL players" like back in EQ. Man that game was a pain in the butt, but I still have friends from that game and I haven't played it since 2005. I'd give anything to have that community back.

[Darkeus]

Ok, this is the second time I've seen someone say NOT to kill the skitterlings. Might I ask why? I had no idea you weren't supposed to.

No problem. On one of the Arkfalls, the EGO tells you that the skitterlings are biting holes in the crystal you have to destroy. So the idea of the Arkfall is to kill all of the other Hellbugs but let the skitterlings bite the crystal so that you can blow it up quicker by hitting the weak spots they create. Time is important in Arkfalls.

Yet all of the time I see people killing the Skitterlings, or running them over CONSTANTLY or shooting area affect weapons at the crystal and thus killing all of the skitterlings around the crystal. This makes the Arkfall go much longer than it should and is just annoying since the EGO tells you this over and over and over and over again....

Edit: Lol, I see I was real late on the draw.... Already answered for ya....

[Tap]

As far as the chat. It's not that noone chats.

It's that if you turn off the Voice option in settings
It turns off the chat.


The workaround I've found is to go to your windows audio settings, and set the default device to a digital input, or an input you don't have anything plugged into, then you can leave voice on, and still be able to type chat

[Darkeus]

As for the small skitterlings make weak points in the Arkfall Rock, they need to give a in game warning, or make them unattackable, cause at the moment, you get rewarded for killing them (highest kill count) but it stuffs everyone else up. Its almost a form of grieving (like parking your large vehicle on a quest giver. Sure you can walk though a vehicle but does not mean you can CLICK on the quest giver.

The bold is mine. No offense, but are you paying attention? The EGO tells you at least five times EACH CRYSTAL. She is constantly saying, "The small skitterlings seem to be creating a weak spot where they bite the crystal."

Do you need more than that to comprehend that you keep them alive? That really seems like an in-game warning to me.

[Quirky]

If you turn off voice (which I do) it also disables your Chat so you don't see anything thats said. For that reason as I can't mute my Mic in-game I have it disabled and it just makes the game very antisocial because of a poorly designed feature.

[Merkery N16]

you read my mind and because of this i plugged in my wireless keyboard and ive started publicly chatting. I even went to the start town and was offering people xp boosts if they joined my clan however i also said they was free to leave clan if they wanted to after( im 524 now so i figured id share some love to the people who got delayed release copies) so yea i do understand it but the only way we can make it better is all try talk a bit more even if no one replies

[Volatile]

I too, am a bit disappointed with the chat system in the game. I love the game, but something really needs to be done. Atleast give me the option to leave the chat bar open at all times. Or extend the length of time it takes for the window to disappear. So many times have gone by that someone said something to me, and I don't notice it until a long period of time has gone by. I hope these people weren't thinking I was ignoring them!

I vote for extending the length the chat window stays open, give us options. The window is so small, leaving it open permenantly wouldn't hurt anything, imho.