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Just looking at a thread over on the Aion board I suddenly thought how much I valued public chat channels (as opposed to whispers, local, guild chat etc) whether they be organised by world, zone, level range or whatever. However, there are also some things that really wind me up on these sorts of channels which you tend to get in every game. The biggest wind up for me I think is the language police. If someone asks the same thing in a non English language in public chat every 2 seconds then I can see how it might get annoying to some (it doesn't to me, works well in TCOS for example I think) but you could say the same even if it was in English as it would just be spam. My pet peeve though is the idiot(s) who instantly start whining about the rules about speaking in English on that channel if some poor pleb so much sends out one message asking if there is an e.g. Norwegian speaking guild in Norwegian. Why don't these people just let it go? It's only a line in a small box in the corner of the screen If they spam then moan but based on 1 message? This sort of thing tends to happen in all sorts of games as well. I'm winding myself up just thinking about it now *takes deep breaths* Having said all that, public chat is still a huge contributor to most MMOs for me. Any other irritations about public chat? |
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I don't suppose the american lot get the same sort of "problem" as we do with languages; I imagine that the vast majority of people playing an MMO on a NA server all speak english, whereas we in the EU have a much more multi-cultural population given that servers are typically only split into a few languages and the english ones tend to be the most popular. My only personal gripe with public chat channels is the off-topic (or just plain stupid) spamming. I hate when, for example, someone spams "NEED TANK 4 <insert instance here> LAST SPOT" repeatedly over every available channel, drowning out all conversation. Especially in channels that are specifically set up for other uses like guild recruitment or trade.  |
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I have three pet peeves myself that get on my nerves that you see at times in chat: The first is when chat gets turned into a political agenda for some where they spout on and on about real world issues mostly revolving around politics or religion. I look towards mmos to get away from that type of bullshit and it amazes me how much some want to bring it to the fore front even when they're playing a game - especailly when you consider the majority that do it are simply looking to piss someone off or have no real idea what the hell they're talking about. The second is when some start spamming some worn out joke over and over again. The third would be when someone has a personal dispute with another player that they feel the need for everyone to be involved in or calling out players because you think they suck. Most of the time there are mitigating circumstances that you'll never know since you weren't there and really has nothing to do with you - yet some feel the need to share with the world how they feel Player X ninja looted them or Player Y sucks at healing. |
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<Anal Link>. Months of <Anal Link>. Every. Single. Day. The first 3 times it was kind of funny. Times 62,921 and 62,922 not so much. Any other "joke" that runs for weeks or months and is being repeated by the same lunkheads over and over again. When people ask a legitimate question and then get flamed for being dumb or a noob. "Meow" or "RAWR" or whatever other little annoying way somebody has to announce their all-important presence in the channel. Pickup group spammers who have a list of "requirements" three lines long and hit the macro every 8 seconds. People who cry about people who actually use a channel for what it was intended to be used for.
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Ya know the title made me think this thread was about people hating pets in chat channels... Your dog sucks! Oh yeah your turtles stats are horrible! |
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Epeen flexing by linking loot in world/OOC chat. How inadequate in RL are you? |
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Being an american, I do my best to play on NA servers. In fact, I think there were only a few occasions where I broke that personal rule; but those games were multi-lingual anyways. I mainly have two issues when it comes to public chat, though.
One, I don't like it when people generalize or bash my country. I have been kicked out of English and Canadian guilds because they found out I was American. Yeah, it does happen. On top of that, I really dislike when you get somebody spamming chat with a completely different language than the server is based off of. In other words, a NA server with a load of people speaking Turkish and Spanish will kinda piss me off. Even more so if there are Turkish and Spanish versions of that game already out. Group leader: "Sen ne yap?yorsun?" Me: "What? Group leader: "Sen ne yap?yorsun?!?!" Me: "English, sorry." Group leader: "Gecikmesi!"
And I get kicked. Mind you, only on an English-speaking or American server does this really get at me. If I'm on their turf, I should know their language.
Ah well. |
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Originally posted by DubaVampe
I can understand your frustration of non official server languages in a group situation where you did not know that was the case before. My beef is mostly either with people having a go in public channel at someone asking for a non Enlgish speaking group/guild a moderate number of times - it doesn't affect anyone else so what's the issue (interestingly you very rarely get servers for eveyr EU language. If you get 3 or 4 (English, French, German and Italian say) you are doing very well.) |
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My favorite was the Murloc movie one. -TORMENT GAMING COMMUNITY- |
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1) religous/political spamming 2) e-peens... put em away I don't need to see any of em 3) People that feel they deserve 'respect' for anything non-game related. Just because a person is a member of a political group/religion/army doesn't mean we should drop everything to appease them in game... personality and skill are all that matters online. |
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in text chat: 1. real world politics 2. sports
in vent: 1. squealing feedback. Get headphones or move the mic away from the speakers. 2. People that open push to talk then loudly clear their throat. Please dont push to talk till you are ready to talk. |
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I hate and despise "leetspeak" and "textspeak" and in WoW I have the most common terms on a chat filter so I never see the messages in any chat channel at all. My addon has filtered out every message containing the letters "plz" 577 times, "pls" 326 times and "ne1" 432 times, which makes 1335 messages I've never had to bother with. For good measure, I have also set another addon so that no-one under lvl 20 can even message me, because they are invariably only after gold and boosts. Oh, the blessed peace and quiet. |
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Guess they are afraid of it going out of hand, but it pisses me off too. Then in WOW I start saying how it's not forbiden to use another language in english servers and the discussion starts. It's funny how people swear that it's in the ToS when it's not. |
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People fretting about speaking English are generally asshats. In Eve, we had a few players speaking Swedish one night, and some dickhead pipes up that "this is an English" server - in fact, it was a European server and I was greatly pleased to see said asshat get the piss taken out of him by people using several different languages, English included. Honestly, I have no problem with it. Just /ignore them if they are flooding a local channel, which I do to people even if they flood a channel with English chat. |
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Having played online games from nearly their inception, I'm fairly innured to the random nonsense that happens. I don't mind tossing the occasional right-click->Report if stuff really gets bad, and occasionally someone earns a full-fledged /ignore when they spam (because at that point they're actually hiding useful chat from me.) Foreign language I'm also used to, though it felt like one of my WOW servers had a 30-40% Brazilian population and I actually transferred away from there. It's hard enough for guilds to fill out rosters (and for 5-mans to accomplish teamwork) when everyone's speaking the same language. Nothing against speaking in a foreign language, I just wanted teamwork. Honestly I'd have wished the server had been marked Brazilian from the get-go so that they had a centralized place they could go (because I'm sure many of them felt the same way) and I would've known to avoid it. I may be sorta harsh on EVE, but damn is this a cool trailer (EVE Dominion). |
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Originally posted by neoterrar
Anyway, I usually just turn off General Chat so I don't have to look at it. My pet peeves? Gold spammers. People having a 1 to 1 conversation / argument in general.
Bioware did not make Knights of the old Republic 2. |
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Originally posted by DubaVampe
It is obvious you had no clue what were you doing and kicked for underperforming |
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For me it would be:
People who talk off topic in busy specific- topic channels with a large number of members (over a 1,000 people) . One off topic conversation can flood a channel and make it useless. This happened in LoTRO in the looking for group channel where there were several thousand members. This channel was extremely useful for finding groups until the off topic chatters moved in. There was general chat channel that had several hundred members but apparently a captive audience of several hundred was not big enough. Chuck Norris jokes and troll statements designed to inflame people were common when I played in WoW. My ignore list in Wow lagged when opened as it had so many names. Whereas in games I had played previously I doubt I ever had more than 5 people total on ignore. When I played Everquest people would chat in zone chat if the zone was nearly empty. They did not have discussions or go off-topic in zone chat in a busy zones where there many people. People would chat in guild chat but would not talk unnecessarily in guild chat when the guild channel was used for raiding. The difference was that people knew when it was appropriate to chatter in particular channels. These days people want to broadcast their chatter regardless of whether their language is offensive to the members of that channel,regardless of whether the topic is offensive, regardless of whether the channel has 2 members or 2000 members, and regardless of whether they on topic or off topic. You are likely to have several channels open. There will be group chat, guild chat, raid chat, specific topic channels. The last thing you want is someone spamming off topic chatter in specific topic channels when you also have a lot of important chat happening in other channels. You have to close channels to keep up when too much is being obscured by rapidly scrolling lines of off topic chatter. |
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Brenelael
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Joined: 10/19/06
"If I'm not back in 5 minutes... Just wait longer." -Ace Ventura |
The grammar and spelling police. These people kinda tick me off. I rarely use shortcuts or acronyms but don't really care if others do. As long as I can understand what they are trying to say I don't really care how they say it but when someone starts spouting off in chat because someone else is using 'plz', 'u', 'rdy' or some other short cut they are the ones interrupting any immersion at that moment. If you can understand what someone else is trying to say get over yourself and keep your comments to yourself.
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Originally posted by thorwood
I never see those, either. Thank god for addons. |
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Originally posted by Brenelael My unwritten rule of gaming is that people who use terms like those are too moronic to reply to or group with. This rule has never failed me. TO CLARIFY: This is to people /whispering me because they want something. Use "leetspeak" or "textspeak" and you're filtered out and on ignore. |
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Originally posted by Dibdabs My unwritten rule of gaming is that people who use terms like those are too moronic to reply to or group with. This rule has never failed me.
How come? We all use abbreviations don't we. e.g. WOW, WAR, EQ, etc as well as names of dungeons. We use abbreviations for common phrases, e.g. dot, lfg, pst, brb, omw etc. Some people take it further than others and also abbreviate words such as please, your, ready etc but surely that is just an extension to what we all do anyway. When it is combination with any words like noob or pwn or the number 3 then the author is definitely a moron but as abbreviations in their own right I don't usually take much offence (I even use rdy in groups for example). |
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Originally posted by FunkyLasagne
How come? We all use abbreviations don't we. e.g. WOW, WAR, EQ, etc as well as names of dungeons. We use abbreviations for common phrases, e.g. dot, lfg, pst, brb, omw etc. Some people take it further than others and also abbreviate words such as please, your, ready etc but surely that is just an extension to what we all do anyway. When it is combination with any words like noob or pwn or the number 3 then the author is definitely a moron but as abbreviations in their own right I don't usually take much offence (I even use rdy in groups for example).
RDY is so common I cant even believe the guy. He would have 9/10's of the the server on ignore in every mmo Ive ever played and Ive played alot. |
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Brenelael
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Joined: 10/19/06
"If I'm not back in 5 minutes... Just wait longer." -Ace Ventura |
Originally posted by Dibdabs My unwritten rule of gaming is that people who use terms like those are too moronic to reply to or group with. This rule has never failed me. My unwritten rule of gaming is people who find this moronic are too Anal Retentive to reply to or group with. This rule has never failed me.
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-When a new player asks for advice in channel, and people respond with snide remarks. -When certain individuals use the channel as their own personal chat room, dominating all conversations. -Overused shorthand, it has its uses in groups or immediate area while fighting, and you need to type something quick. In the public channel folks usualy have the few extra seconds needed to form complete words.
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