Zone Chat Psychology (Thoughts?)

barney2525

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

So let me set the stage: tonight I was in Elsweyr, having just finished a really fun round of guild hide & seek (I hide somewhere, and provide ever-increasingly precise location hints over time; the first person to find me and open a trade window wins the prize.) At any rate, since it was so much fun, I figured 'hey, why not do this for everyone in zone?' So I found a good hiding spot, told everyone in zone chat the rules, and again provided better and better hints until finally someone found me (shoutout to Taiku_Cat!) and won the prize, 25k gold.

What I couldn't understand though, was the attitude of a number of people in the chat saying that it was pointless, or that people should just come to the wayshrine to get free gold, or this, that, and the other. I mean, there were definitely people in chat who were enjoying the hunt, and while I realize 25k isn't much for people who already have a ton of gold, it's a significant amount for any new players just starting to get on their feet. So why would people go out of their way to take a fun event that wasn't hurting anyone and try to trash it? Like, what's the point of that supposed to be?

Welcome to the human race

Dark_Lord_Kuro

The_Lex wrote: »

I beta tested the game, played for a little while but took a break, came back for Xbox release, but then switched to PC.

I noticed that zone chat on xbox was more toxic than on PC. Don't get me wrong, PC has it fair share of toxicity, especially in Cyrodiil, but it appears tamer than on console. This is not a flame console comment; just a fact I noticed in my experience.

Do you mean zone voice chat
Text chat wasnt on console before 1t

SteveCampsOut

jainiadral wrote: »

kargen27 wrote: »

jainiadral wrote: »

Maybe next time try to start up a group in chat kind of like people do in the Alik'r or Auridon to form WB or dolmen groups. You know, "Type 'x' to join a game of hide & seek. Top prize, 25k gold."

Then you can keep rules and inquiries about the game to those interested and leave the jerks to their politics and trolling. <-- And those two are why I turn off zone chat and miss silly fun *sigh*

The problem with forming a group is you can then port to the player hiding and know you are in the general proximity.

I always assume the irritating ones somehow successfully broke into their parents liquor cabinet and think they are being witty.

Guess you can tell how often I group Never mind, bad idea.

The answer is simple. Do the same thing, only with Discord. Create a Games Discord server with text chat channels that you can post the rules to. Then just invite players to join said discord for the fun and games. Then just turn Zone Chat off and let them be imbeciles all by themselves.

StabbityDoom wrote: »

I once was in guild with someone who said he was trolling zone chat hard, and no dice. Another guildie said "Did you try racebaiting?" and he said, not yet, that's next.

That's why zone chat sucks sometimes. These people exist.

Talk to your guild leader and officers. Someone like that would be removed from my guild in a nanosecond.

Reistr_the_Unbroken

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Sometimes zone chat is just plain creepy. I was in Mournhold in Deshaan and someone in zone was offering a gold reward to anyone who could locate a specific player, even posted their @name...and it sounded so stalkerish they way they phrased it, and the name they wanted had 'girl' as part of the username, and I just hope he never found her...it was straight up harassment and stalking, and people in zone were calling the player out for it.

Your game sounds innocent enough, but with creeps like that, it puts people on edge for trolls and stuff. I hope more people have innocent fun.

Reading this reminds me of why I don’t bother with actual people in ESO lmao
I’m just happy with rps in my head with NPCs- and having a “friendly” game of cat and mouse with Molag

Edit: also I’m kinda disappointed at the people saying “just block and ignore” imho