I know that a chat interface is being considered (similar to EVE). During the Keynote, you can see the prototype has fields for this in the Merc Quarters. I don't know how much of this is being developed for in-game play too but it would make sense to have it in some capacity (imo!)

But... There is text chat.

It's just not very useful.

I agree completely with DUST Fiend. Having chat forced on me in games is incredibly frustrating. You know the kinds of stuff people say to one another in a competitive environment? Especially in FPS games on PC?

If chatting is easy to use and easy to see, we'll have people saying "wow" or "wdf" every time they die. Or they'll be fighting with each other over how soft drinks are this and that and everyone is a hypocrite for something or another. I don't want to see it, I don't want to take part in it, and I don't want it pushed in my face.

Or worse, they'll be using racial or homophobic slurs to insult one another and calling everything that kills them OP and starting fights with people CONSTANTLY for no reason. This type of stuff shouldn't be thrown in people's faces like it is in PC games, yet companies keep designing their UI to force global/local chat and not allowing people to remove the chat window entirely. Please don't be another one of those companies CCP.

If I want to be anti-social, there should be a toggle to satisfy me. If I join a corp. and want to talk, then I should be able to opt into corp. chat, and not global or local chat. Also, why should 20% of my screen be reserved for kids to harass me or one another? If they want to fight with words on the internet that's fine, let them do that, but make it easy for me to never have to see it.

Please do not force me to view chat if I don't want to. And PLEASE do not put a tiny flashing icon on the side of my screen either if I opt out of battle chat.


In my opinion these are the things that ALL online games need:

1. An option to disable the chat window entirely (no flashing icons, no notifications, no chat bubbles)
2. An easy way to click on people's names and block and/or report for abusive behavior
3. Window that can be resized, including (but not limited to) minimizing, maximizing and deleting
3. Repositioning and/or category separation. For example, Global chat on upper left of screen, Corp. on upper-right etc.
4. Opacity options including removing background color and/or border completely.
5. An option to disable the chat window entirely (no flashing icons, no notifications, no chat bubbles)

So wait, you quoted me to say that "homophobia" is a stupid word, and that you're not homophobic? You know what types of people are drawn to FPS games, right? A lot of them are a bit underdeveloped mentally, and using homophobic (yes, that word actually applies here) insults is a real thing. You play many FPS games? Or were you one of those types of people when you were little? Rhetorical questions, I don't actually care.

It's people like you that make the rest of us want to disable a chat window.

And for the record, in a first person shooter where the action is fast paced, using text chat to coordinate a team is incredibly challenging, no matter how fast you type. Better off being on voice chat. Best thing to use text chat in a FPS for is recruiting and idle chit-chat.


I would also like to state that you quoting me to veer waaaaay off-topic only to then agree with me in the most backhanded way you possibly could is the reason people like me want options to disable chat.

Please don't make the chat channel a free intel device to see who is there.