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Warhammer vs WoW - Global Chat Maturity
rubydragon5
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I used to play WoW and im sure anyone that used to also know how Global chat usualy is, for example the barrens, where all the new people are spamming yo mamma jokes, vulgar language and saying things only a 10 year old may find semi funny.
I logged into warhammer skull throne server tonight on my lvl 10 goblin shaman and saw a flood of text in global region.
I logged into 5 people debating the stimulus plan, obama and foreign UN policy.
No cursing, no spamming, no anger or personal attacks..
Everyone had there own personal opinions which everyone elses respected.
After bout 10 minutes we all agreed that the human race is doomed, between global warming or war which wil probably come first considering if and when the economy collapses it will turn money useless so powerful countries will take stuff by force from weaker ones.
Then some said lets end the conversation and get back to killing order which seemed to be taking our land over while we were talking and not paying attention..
To be able to log into a game that is equal or better than wow game mechanic wise and be talking to mostly adults and mature people is like having my cake and eating it to.
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Must be active server:p In ironfist i am lucky if i even see one word uttered in global chat...
You cannot generalize an entire community of a game by one snapshot of a conversation on one server. If you're a mature adult, you'd of realized that before posting. WoW had hundreds of servers, meaning hundreds of different communities. Take my person experiences for example. On Gilneas, the chat is fairly mature at all hours of the day, except for Trade chat sometimes. On the new server Borean Tundra, the chat was down right immature. On Moonguard, a RP server, people were really mature. In WAR, you're having the experience you have on Skull Throne. On my server, Dark Crag, the chat is mainly immature.
So you see, you can't compare WAR to WoW without comparing every server at all times of the day for several weeks so you can have an accurate picture of chat. But even then, it will only be server specific, so it would only depend on which server you roll on.
There's global chat in WAR? News to me. When I played, I never saw one person chat in global. It felt like a ghost town in that respect.
As for WoW Global, I always found it amusing to read. There were always people chatting, either in a mature manner or being complete goofballs. That is one of the things I loved about WoW.
Did you only play for a short time near release? At the beginning each zone was divided into "mini-zones" which each had their own little "global" chat. This meant there was rarely enough players to get more than the occasional message there. Now each racial pairing has its own global chat for each tier, meaning you see a lot of talking.
I spread my characters out over 6 servers.....I picked the most popular ones I could find.......Even so the chat varies greatly......Probably 3 of them have solid, constant chat and the other 3 are pretty quiet......The community is much more mature than WoW ever was though.....Alot of people like to refer to WAR as teh "quiet MMO"........I did not play at launch and from what I understand the chat is much better now than it was then.
WoW global chat... What a joke.
In the words of a great film: "Not only did your answer have absolutely nothing to do with the question... It didn't make any sense at all. It was quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I feel that everyone in this room is now stupider for having listened to that... I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." -Billy Madison (not a direct quote, but close enough)
Yeah... That about sums up the WoW chat when I played. Can't imagine it's getting any better. Or any more coherent for that matter.
I'll stick with intelligent debates in LotRO, thank you.
My whole time in WAR I rarely saw anyone chat. The odd sentence here and there without any reply. I've I feeling that it's because the chat wasn't very intuitive. By the time you'd worked out how to reply to the channel, the moment was gone! People nowadays expect a graphical UI and I thought WAR was very IRC.
I have to agree with this completely. If I was to take my first chat impressions of WAR, WoW, and LotRO I would be able to deduce that WAR was full of immature idiots, WoW was full of immature idiots and the ocassional helpful person, and LotRO was the one where I could expect mature conversation on "IRL topics." Like I said, that would be my very first impression of the game. The problem is, you cannot take that impression from say one hour of one day on one server and say that game is therefore better than another. I made a different character in WAR and found none of the trash-talking I had when I first started; a few days later I went back to the initial server and it was quiet. The same can be said for WoW. As for LotRO, that is the only one which I have yet to see a bunch of trash-talk. Does that mean it does not happen? Nope, I just have yet to see it, and regardless I would wager that of all the games it is the one that is most likely to not suffer from the degree of babble that the others do. Just my opinions though.
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Ha! I play on Ironfist and the community seems to just chat in guild or party chat.
I've been grouping with people in Tier 2 and I dont think they speak english.
For the passed couple days I've been saying Ironfist has Global/region chat on Ignore.
Playing: EvE, Ryzom
Same here.
I haven't heard a Chuck Norris joke in WAR so far, so that's something better.
Same here.
OP means Regional i think.
for me region chat is quiet but I prefer it that way.
It's bad enough that i get to see random children post in SC chat.
Playing: EvE, Ryzom
Regional, Global, it doesn't matter what term I use considering we all understand what im trying to say...
Large area with lots of people that are low levels chatting in 1 chat channel.
BTW: I have a bad leg infection and have been doped up on antibiotics for days now, please ignore my lack of grammar, spelling, and lack of the propper words.
EDIT: I am really spaced out right now and this took me about 6 times to edit so im hoping its somewhat legable .
I'm not being funny but why do people expect maturity in a GAME. I'd hope people logged onto WaR, WoW or any MMO to have abit of fun and if people choose to slip the occasional mention of his lord god, Chuck Norris in who cares? You seem to think that people should take these games seriously. Well guess what, life is the serious part and games are for escapism and fun.
If my banker was saying "haha n00bzor, i pwn u!!!!11!1!! All your money r bel0ng 2 me! Yo mama is so fat!" then I would worry not if a fellow gamer was.
It's hard to chat when you're trying to keep people alive...
To tell you the truth, I rarely even look at the chat window. I miss tells sometimes, but try to pay attention when the text is blue.
I think after seeing this post I might try to set up my chat windows different. I have so much stuff running down it, that it isn't worth my time to try and pay attention. Like I said, I pay attention to chat to long; someone is dead...
My experience has been very little regional chat overall. When it does happen, it's almost always about RvR or otherwise game related. The maturity level is very high. Even the people who mis-spell half their words are almost always being civil and on topic. This is on three servers I've played on since release.
Pretty amazing, really.
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I couldnt agree more.
I'm almost certain that even players who have been there since release still act that way and some are even guild leaders.
Fun at who's expense? Most people DO want to log in and have a bit of fun and if you are too busy having fun then you don't have time to spout nonsense such as what you describe. If games are for escapism then there is no need to mention Chuck Norris at all, is there? Not taking a game seriously and putting up with inane banter about trash isn't the same thing.