Text chat is great .... but...

Rittings · October 2016

I've encountered SO many problems with it because of people spamming.... usually just spamming linked items.

This isn't just a zone, or area, issue either. Its a problem from guildmates.

Guilds are creating "silence" ranks, just to make life more bearable and stop the bleed when losing players from their rosters from being annoyed at others.

Sure, I can block players. That's great. And I do... but I now have a block list a mile long... and I have to block them from my PSN completely (which means, even in other games they are blocked and they might only be spamming badly in this one).

Here is what I propose...

1). The ability to mute channels (like zone for instance... especially when in the Undaunted Enclave zones - where the linking of items has become so bad that the item is gone from the 10 lines before you can even read it).
2). The ability to mute ALL linked items from chat. This would be a great "catch all" solution to people spamming their items in chat.
3). The ability to LEAVE a certain channel (just like you do in voice channels) - and come back to it later if you so wish.
4). Multiple channels for Guilds (like the voice chat ones) that can be joined/muted/left at the users discretion.

Vaoh · October 2016

Yes.

Plz yes.

It gets pretty bad in zone chat Cyro/Undaunted Enclaves

SublimeSparo · October 2016

But what about Andòooooooo

rhapsodious · October 2016

It's not a solution so much as a bandaid, but I have chat tabs set up that encompass everything except zone chat, so if they're being particularly annoying/stupid that day I can be done with it. Is that possible on console?

FloppyTouch · October 2016

I just like a longer history I might read something open up the chat window then it's gone covered up from someone linking bloodspawn helm 10 times

Really like chat but agree it needs some small tweaks to make it better

I don't like ur number 4 though I hate the voice chat option that takes 5s to switch chats I rather it stay to one guild txt chat easier to get a hold of someone.

Vaoh · October 2016

rhapsodious wrote: »

It's not a solution so much as a bandaid, but I have chat tabs set up that encompass everything except zone chat, so if they're being particularly annoying/stupid that day I can be done with it. Is that possible on console?

Nope.

But it would be a great addition no doubt.

To be clear, Text Chat has been a FANTASTIC addition to console ESO.

There are simply improvements which can be made

Pandorii · October 2016

rhapsodious wrote: »

It's not a solution so much as a bandaid, but I have chat tabs set up that encompass everything except zone chat, so if they're being particularly annoying/stupid that day I can be done with it. Is that possible on console?

This feature isn't available on console. We don't have chat tabs.

Beardimus · October 2016

So in short this 'great' feature has ended up exactly like the other great feature, voice chat, idiots spam it now people turn it off. It was always going to happen, never the tools fault but the users.

Voice chat is superior in every way people just weren't on it cos of idiots, text chat is now the same. Zero suprise from me.

I cant handle doing hard content with no mic if I'm honest. Random normal is ok but anything else ill only do with guildies, with mics.

Solus · October 2016

they need to just make a zone selling chat, a guild chat, and a zone chat tab

FloppyTouch · October 2016

Beardimus wrote: »

So in short this 'great' feature has ended up exactly like the other great feature, voice chat, idiots spam it now people turn it off. It was always going to happen, never the tools fault but the users.

Voice chat is superior in every way people just weren't on it cos of idiots, text chat is now the same. Zero suprise from me.

I cant handle doing hard content with no mic if I'm honest. Random normal is ok but anything else ill only do with guildies, with mics.

I hate to say it but voice chat is not superior in every way one way it's not is try getting a hold of ppl in different voice chats in the same guild so much fun jumping from chat 1-5 lol also try selling something or asking for help when on early in the morning and ur guild is busy zone chat ask for help doing world boss bam ppl. Try getting the pugs in pvp to help u out take another keep useing area voice chat lol u can't but zone txt chat u can. Voice is only best when already in a group other then that txt chat is better way to communicate to a large amount of ppl faster