The chat system is straight garbo. The good news in one of the dev blogs a few days ago Trion acknowledged this and said they are working on a solution. The bad news, no ETA or even what the solution is. Still lost some points in my book for letting this chat system make it to the PC release client...in an MMO. It was beat up on pretty hard in Alpha and Beta.
Hey, don't be bashing about people who like to chat.
Yes, the game is a shooter, it's point, shoot, and go. But, some of us like to have friends we can talk to, get to know other people. The other people are not robots that just walk around, but real human beings. They are worth being known. I for one, would love to get to know them, but with a chat box like this, it's hard.