Zone chat has become really antagonistic

Enteum

The zone chat was pretty bad sometimes in beta. But I can see myself, on log in tomorrow, just turning off zone and going my merry way at a slower pace than I did in beta. Hopefully things will calm down and people antagonizing one another is not a good foundation for a good community. With all hope it will change in the long run.

But, however, I will not let childish behaviour ruin my 15 years of fun inside Tamriel

SeñorCinco

I absolutely loathe the chat window, aside form the scrolling garbage that no body wants to hear or are concerned with. I type in a forum and I play when I'm playing. I avoid that thing like the plague.

We have evolved beyond the antiquated text communications in games. Every game should have a stock in-house VOIP. A real one that has proximity and directional volume control not an entire zone filled with 300 people talking at the same time.

I heavily RP all of my characters and they have a lot to say. None have any typing skills whatsoever.

... and neither do I.

Pretext

I make a second chat box and put zone chat on there. Just use it when I need it.

Skookum

@Sue_D_Nim‌

haha, vulgar to be sure... but I don't know a single teenage boy who isn't, at least even a little!

Shimond

I wouldn't know, first thing I do every time I create a character is go into the chat options and uncheck zone. I have no use for it.

SeñorCinco

Shimond wrote: »

I wouldn't know, first thing I do every time I create a character is go into the chat options and uncheck zone. I have no use for it.

I do the same and I don't stop there. I clear the chat name and uncheck every queue in the filtered list.

hrdndv_ESO

ZONE chat is the best way to group unless you have organized a guild event. I turn off individual trolls and ignore the rest. It is impossible to try to follow a conversation in ZONE chat, so I use a dedicated window for the group I am in. Unfortunately, many people in your group are posting in ZONE. Makes forming a cohesive group difficult.

myblackbox123

Ignore often, it helps.

Arb

For some, it's fun to argue differences of opinion on any topic whatsoever. For me, I'd rather focus on playing the game, having fun and becoming a valuable player.

Cayce_of_Kata

I posted this in another thread, but:





You can make a second tab for Zone, so when it's not being annoying, or you need to use it, you still have it.

TwistedRiddlesb14_ESO

Arb wrote: »

For some, it's fun to argue differences of opinion on any topic whatsoever. For me, I'd rather focus on playing the game, having fun and becoming a valuable player.

I guess my issue is not that it's not fun to argue differences of opinion. It's that if you express a difference of opinion, you are called an idiot and a troll and attacked personally. I have made a separate tab for zone chat, and I am hoping that after some time, it will get better. I don't want to ignore it, because I WANT to help people. If everyone who isn't a jerk leaves zone chat, it just gets worse.

kewl

Trolls be trollin'. If you find someone who needs help, send them a whisper, take the convo out of that environment. It sucks but trolls die if you don't feed them.

Yankee

Zargorius wrote: »

I always found the Zone chats in any game just distracting and often offensive. First thing I did in ESO is make a new chat tab and exclude the Zone from it so I can just read people close to me. Problem solved.

Agree %100. And sadly that is true in any MMO I have played in the last 10 years.

Seroczynski

Zargorius wrote: »

I always found the Zone chats in any game just distracting and often offensive. First thing I did in ESO is make a new chat tab and exclude the Zone from it so I can just read people close to me. Problem solved.

I did exactly the same, and it's more enjoyable for me like this. If I want to read zone, for example when being in town, I just tap the "unfiltered" chat tab. I don't think you will find a better solution than this.

spinedoc

It's a shame, with each successive MMO I try over the years the chat seems to get worse. The only exception was GW2 which was pretty decent for some reason. Maybe it's just kids, but 10 years ago I would never be as disrespectful as some of these guys are. I was REALLY hoping that the paid sub model would keep most of these people out, maybe after the free 30 days is up.

silent88b14_ESO

Might be tactical. If you condition players in an opposing alliance to ignore the chatbox then when they reach Cyrodiil they will not be watching for inter-group/inter-guild force coordination in PvP. As a tactic this method limits and fragments the coordination of alliance forces for minimal investment.

Yankee

silent88b14_ESO wrote: »

Might be tactical. If you condition players in an opposing alliance to ignore the chatbox then when they reach Cyrodiil they will not be watching for inter-group/inter-guild force coordination in PvP. As a tactic this method limits and fragments the coordination of alliance forces for minimal investment.

More likely though, people are just being the normal infantile internet jerks in zone chat.

Paks_ESO

My ignore list is growing so I hope Zeni gave us a lot of space.

jambam817_ESO

I've been too busy having fun. oh... and ignoring gold spammers... like 20+ on my list as of yesterday.

Shimond

I had to remove Yell from my 'clean' chat filter because of gold spam. I don't bother ignoring them because they're throwaways that should be gone in under 24 hours anyway.

Laerrus

spinedoc wrote: »

It's a shame, with each successive MMO I try over the years the chat seems to get worse. The only exception was GW2 which was pretty decent for some reason. Maybe it's just kids, but 10 years ago I would never be as disrespectful as some of these guys are. I was REALLY hoping that the paid sub model would keep most of these people out, maybe after the free 30 days is up.

It's always been bad, I think we just tend to see the past through rose colored glasses.

I think many of them will leave when they realize that TESO is not like WoW or similar MMOs.

kram0789

The just sucks. It plays very little like Skyrim. Issues with Skyrim were not addressed and things that worked in Skyrim are not broken. Quests cannot be completed because items don't spawn. No mini-map. Lock picking is ridiculously hard to get started. Most items you find cannot be sold for gold.

Nurrasana

On this topic: The spam is really annoying, and I didn't participate in the BETA so I don't really know my way around yet. How do I ignore/report the people doing this?

Ravinsild

Maybe it's your faction?

In Aldmeri Dominion, whenever I asked a question such as "Where is the CE Treasure chest here?" People were nice and friendly to provide the location and really helped me out.

I eventually just googled it because I see things better than I "hear" (I look at the GPS, rather than listen to it when driving).

However, so far my experience has been pretty helpful and fun. Maybe I am a lucky person?

Wreaken

Ebonheart Pact faction, US servers. I turned /zone and /yell chats off.

Best thing I ever did.

nhisso

ESO chat isn't near as bad as other MMOs, but most of those are F2P these days. After the 30 days-free is over from the initial purchase, chat will become a little better. Just pray this game never goes f2p or chat will be s*** storm forever lol! But, like I said, chat in ESO, especially for being in a megaserver that's full as hell right now, isn't near as bad as other MMOs I play, and I play a LOT of MMOs

nhisso

Oh, and don't rack a disiprin. Just ignore the idiots and trolls if they bother you so much. I despise gamers in MMOs who name their characters things like "TacoStand" or "its_pwncess" or xX420noscope6969llXx, but, you just have to accept that people aren't going to talk nor play how you want them to. If you are going to be bothered by chat and other players' names, etc., you will have a rough time in online gaming

daslush_ESO

Outside of gold sellers and overly long RP styled advertisements for guilds, the zone chat really has not been all that bad when compared to more modern mmo's. It does however leave much to be desired compared to a friendlier DAoC chat of yesteryear.

Edit: A much smoother method of reporting gold spammers should be incorporated very soon. Maybe when you Right Click a name an option could read "Report Gold Spammer" and it would auto include a screenshot.

SpasticSpringbok

the daggerfall and dominion have some of the nicest people in the game, not once in the 2 days ive played have i had any mean or obnoxious things said to me!!

But as soon as i went on the ebonheart faction - dear me, it was like 90% of the time was just abuse flying around chat!!

blahgameblahb14_ESO

They should add a 'Trade' channel. A lot of non-spammers are trying to sell or Trade in chat and while not 'offensive' it does fill up the channel. I'd rather leave /zone open to help folks.