Remove World Chat

[orwell 0]

World chat didn't exist in vanilla in terms of noone using it. Maybe it was possible, maybe not, but nobody was using it.

When a healer left razorfen kraul, one party member has to go to crossroads asking in barrens chat, if he can't find anyone he should fly to orgrimmar and spam general chat there. People usually went to Orgrimmar or Barrens to find players for dungeons. Even trade chat was added in patch 1.9.0. World chat was never used.

World chat as it exists on Elysium should be removed for a real vanilla experience. This will activate general chats such as barrens chat, durotar chat, Orgrimmar chat etc. It doesn't make sense to broadcast yourself to whole world. This takes away the uniqueness of each area. Back then it made more sense to add friends to your list and treat them kindly because you wanted someone to whisper when you need people in dungeon. Now all you have to do is write in world chat and wait for some random guy to pop up. This feels like dungeon finder to me.

Also in general chats, you get to familiarize with people who are leveling at the same time as you, people joked around in ashenvale chat and then remembered each other in Winterspring and helped each other out or kept joking around.

Barrens chat was such a phenomenon, it had it's own wowwiki entry: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Barrens_chat

We're playing Vanilla because we want it's challenges and hardships. World chat takes away a huge chunk of hardship as well as socializing aspect.

[Trommel 2]

It was possible to create a custom chat channel (with any name) for all players in the world to talk into. It just so happens to be called World here.

[orwell 0]

Trommel it may be possible to have a world chat but nobody used it.

Here's the discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/lightshope/comments/7avwk8/was_globalworld_chat_a_thing_in_retail_vanilla

Everybody remembers it was not a thing in Vanilla. Probably because nobody thought of creating it. If somebody did we would have the same situation then as we have in elysium now. But this one thing missing the players attention made vanilla what it was.

Edit: I remember going to Barrens to just check what's going on, what's being talked there. Good times.

 

[Sibylldruid 0]

There were millions playing retail. 

There are only a few thousand playing this.
Seems like about the same experience as any specific zone chat, to me. 

If they limited each area I would think it would be far more obvious how few people you were playing with here, rather than making it more "authentic".

[Karazon 0]

world chat became a thing in private servers as a way to show people are playing, people didnt want to feel like they was alone. but in official it was always possible to create public channels and people did and shared them on forums.  i don't understand the logic behind removing it though. "looking for group" in retail was the world chat.

I will also point out, the game may have not changed but the way people use the game has and an important thing for private servers is they want people to connect because it feels busy, and that makes people stay.

 

Edited November 7, 2017 by Karazon

[thetruth 0]

Actually, none of you know what you are talking about. LookingForGroup was the world chat. If you shut down world chat, it will move to another channel. You new age players are irritating.

[seeth07 1]

ya i don't know what your talking about orwell but the world chat was certainly a thing.  I played on the realm Malygos and my /5 channel was always up and called "world".  It actually wasn't quite as often used as it is on this server but it certainly got it's share of posts from anything from looking for groups to selling items.

[Ziggycuff 0]

I don't think any one person is gonna change the way the community as a whole communicates to eachother, and honestly its not that big of a problem, Speeding up the finding a group process  by about 10 or 20 minutes by not having to travel does not ruin my vanilla experience, at least. Its not much different then joining a leveling guild for the purpose of questing and doing dungeons together.

However, I know not likely to happen, one change is something I would find much more appealing.

World chat is meant for global communication, yes. but the chat is constantly spammed by Trade, LFGs, Guild Recruitment, memes, off topic conversations (Usually questionable in nature) and Ninja/guild drama. I propose a Gobal World, Trade, and LFG chat, just to filter some of that spam. Maybe make a Barrens chat for the drama, who knows :P.

Edited December 13, 2017 by Ziggycuff

[Azothan 0]

I agree with OP, no world chat. I want the world to feel bigger.

Edited January 10, 2018 by Azothan

[ksx 0]

This is the only place I've ever seen a 'world chat', to include Vanilla, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm & Legion. Literally Tichondrious, the largest server in the game on retail, does not utilize a version of the world chat used here. It is not reflecting the state of the game in neither 2004 or 2018, and I do think it is in fact another version (albeit chatty) of the looking for group tool presently on live and is not the Vanilla experience. People most definitely used capitol cities and/or the zone itself to parade for groups and presently do not. 

In my opinion this global chatroom has altered how wpvp, pvp, and pve in general work. Whether or not I think it is necessarily a bad thing is another question, but to say this happened on Vanilla (or thereafter) is an absolute lie in my opinion, unless you're trying to infer that your no-name servers aforementioned were ahead of the Tich/Blackrock/Cho'gall/Mal'Ganis/KT curve.