Shardaxx wrote: »

I think this would be a nice addition, I can't always be bothered to put on my headset if I group up with a random bod for a quick delve.

"Group up with a random bod for a quick delve"

Are we talking about ESO here or hitting up a club on a Friday night?

Yeah Definately needs chat box and before the PvE dlc hits in a few months.

Not worth buying a dlc when it's next to impossible to get a 4 man group, let alone a 12 man group together to play the content.

I like chatboxes we like chatboxes

This game seriously needs text chat, I run a guild of 470 members and the majority of them don't use the guild voice chat channels. I do most of the communication with my guild via Xbox live message on an individual basis which is a pain in the ass.

You can only be in one voice chat channel at a time, so players already in a group or on a different guild chat channel can't interact with anybody else. Tabs for guilds via text chat would resolve this and allow you to see previous chat history, such as one person wanting to form a group for a dungeon e.t.c. As it stands now somebody would have to constantly repeat themselves asking the same thing, which is pretty annoying.

You also have the issues with kinnects picking up every damn thing going on in somebody's living room. My opinion voice chat - awesome for groups. Everything else needs text chat to work efficiently.

I think one of the nicest things about having text chat is, you can't put a face on people, so no shallow comments, so no worries, so we can all feel free to be ourselves lol

All for text chat! This doesn't mean we have to substitute it for voice - rather we can enhance our experience with the duo. If the ZoS argument is "Don't confuse the console players", I think we will manage. I mean they are already making chatpad add-ons for controllers now.

To be honest i've given up. Got no respect for a company that cant even address an issue like this. They show no respect so why should I? Good luck to all you people still trying.

Nergie4242 wrote: »

To be honest i've given up. Got no respect for a company that cant even address an issue like this. They show no respect so why should I? Good luck to all you people still trying.

I'm almost at that point too. It doesn't look like they have any plans to address or even acknowledge the problem. With the arrival of IC, the disadvantages of being without it are even more obvious and unavoidable.

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Another reason we need text chat is because this game can be hard to learn for new players. And trying to catch up with everyone is a challenge. Most people dont like making themselves look like idiots and speaking up. Text chat has always, and probably will always, be the best way for anyone to feel comfortable saying anything they want without feeling self conscious or dumb. For me, learning the game at first was a bit of a challenge, if it wasn't for the forums, I would still be lost because not everything is clear in tutorials in a Google search, so when I have a question I had to come here. However for most people, they dont use the forum, so if someone wants to ask a question or needs help, they have no way to ask u less they want to try messaging ever individual in a city which is a pain in the ass, and no one's going to stand in the middle of the city making themselves look like an idiot repeating a question until someone responds.

My friend doesn't even use the forums, and let's say I didn't even use the forum, I learn things much easier in this game than him just because I'm more experienced in MMOs, and if it wasn't for me to explain everything to him, he would be completely loss, and would probably quit.

For a lot of features in this game, if he doesn't understand it...he tries to but never really sees the point, so ends up thinking it's stupid. Until I have to explain everything to him so he gets its purpose.

Again, less console players will leave if you included text chat.

Also, wanna know another good reason we should have text chat? People will talkx and make friends, and come back to see their friends, with out friends this game can start getting dry, because mmos have always been kind of repetitive. Even eso...every story is different but when it comes down to it...every quest giver is just someone who knows a lot abo it the situation, but for some reason cant do it themselves and they don't really know anything or can't explain it...or the reason is really silly....but I guess its easy to look over because it's a fictional rpg game lol

Anyways yeah...people will stay if they can communicate, which doesn't seem to be happening.

Hell already people on the forums are even mentioning they may leave, and looks like they may leave for Fallout 4 which is coming out soon...I meam I'm not interested but when no man skies comes out I'll be gone too lol

Want to know how people would stay and still play after fall out? If they had a friend to play with, and a guild to do things with. Again no one is really in a guild, not even myself, I mean I am in one from a random invite, but no real reason, and there is nothing to do because I don't talk to anyone and idk what everyone is doing so no reason to play with anyone.

And eso still has time to let something happen and to keep members of the game...they just need to add text chat soon

My best analogy for not adding text chat is its like going to a club without being able to talk to people..


The only reason a people go to a club is to socialize, makept friends, maybe find a date

But that's not going to happen if no one can talk to each other

So people leave and don't go anymore and the club gets bad reviews because it's not doing its purpose...allowing people to meet new people and talk to friends, and then people will end up not recommending going to this club

I think at a business stand point, ZoS will make more money if text chat was implemented

Pretty soon this game will be about as popular as a pork pie at a Jewish wedding.

Spliffo wrote: »

I play xbox on prime time hours and don't have a problem but if for some reason do have problems then I recommend joining a guild that that does group content and let the devs get to work making fixes after the patch

A lot of people are not native speaker of English. I personally do not enjoy speaking through a mic in English. Lots of other people are in the same position as me.

Another aspect is that the mic is ALWAYS on. (I have one that I can mute, but for some reason ESO resets it to on every loading screen...) This is REALLY annoying. I don't want to hear people chew, cough, speak to their wife/husband/mother/whatever...

The problem is not adding a chat box or not. It's WHY WASN'T THERE ONE AT LAUNCH...

For people talking about spam and whatever else, you do realize that in every game, you can LEAVE the chat right ?

also there is "Want to join my group" quick chat.....but why not "looking for group" and "looking for guild" and "recruiting for guild"...

urkonse wrote: »

also there is "Want to join my group" quick chat.....but why not "looking for group" and "looking for guild" and "recruiting for guild"...

Honestly, because ZOS feels they have provided a group finder tool for everyone to use even though no one on PC uses the darn thing and relies on text chat instead. As was noted in several other threads, voice chat could be improved in so many ways that it seems to be more of an excuse for removing text chat than a feature that is intended to replace it. Having chat channel titles, passwords or invite-only options, being able to see who is in the channel, etc. would make them far more usable and would help to justify the lack of text chat (although it is still needed regardless). In the end, ESO is an example of a mismanaged game that had good ideas during development but obviously ran out of funds and needed to be released in an incomplete state and has never really recovered.