Post by Ludullu on 2024-09-21 18:24:15
Because my guild will only operate in my node, which I'll make my own discord channel for. And my guild will be for those exact casual players that you worry about, because I wanna give them a direct sense of community rather than a nebulous "oh, there's a random dude that has nothing to do with me across the server which is 40 minutes away from me + a boat travel. Wow, such amazement, much cool".We have not received permission from Mag7spy to share the quoted post.
And you're also literally proving my point for me. You say that people can ignore global if they want, but you claim that it'll have important info there, so what exactly are people supposed to do? You also say that people will talk/banter there, but it's somehow supposed to NOT be spammy, while also still be important? Those 2 things don't really work together.
And the main benefit for my point is you saying that all the stuff I'm talking about will be spread through guild discords and stuff like that. Which is exactly what I already said. Guilds having people that will give them info directly and in private, instead of globally. And even if there is a global chat - that info (when it comes not from a random dude walking by) would not be spread in global, which simply proves that truly important info will not be posted there.
So, once again, global chat will be spammed by random bs from random people all across a 10k-player server. And if you wanna know how that will feel - go to any big streamer who has his chat flying by faster than a jet and try having a normal conversation with another person w/o going to dms. You'd have to constantly stop the chat by scrolling up and reading what the other person said.
Server is not a community. Server is a world (a realm, if you may). And then within that world you have your communities in the form of nodes, alliances and guilds. And those chats will be global, will be used to spread good info for and about the people within those communities and will be act-uponable by those very people, because not only will the scale of it all be smaller, but the distance between people will quite likely be way shorter as well (unless someone decides to travel to the other side of the world).
Global chat is just another tool of the single mmo players, because they want the sense of community w/o joining one.