General Discussion

Since playing Everquest, my experience talking to people and amount of contacts has gone down each time.

Everquest had loads of people chatting in general chat, guilds, and /say.

Then I played Vanguard which had a bit less and only region chat and no central hub.

Then I played Guild wars where very few people talked, only in guild.

Then I played WoW, where absolutely no one talks almost, and where I can't access a general chat, just a region chat.

I play MMO to talk to other players and to play with them.  If you don't have a general chat in your MMO, but just region chat, and no central hubs, I might as well go play single player games.

Do you talk in new MMO?

I talk but nobody talks back so I stop talking because talking to myself is a bit odd.  Shortly after that I log off.

Originally posted by Illius

I talk but nobody talks back so I stop talking because talking to myself is a bit odd.  Shortly after that I log off.

^lol :/

because MMO's have become single player games with a monthly fee

 Too buisy with the eternal grind T_T

Originally posted by Swiftblade13

because MMO's have become single player games with a monthly fee

Nod, maybe so. I want big guilds and lots of players and places people hang out with to talk and have 1 general chat.

Area's to meet in. Guilds should be social communities, not just entities to get loot.

Now it's just retarted, everyone plays either by themselves or is in a very small guild.

Wel, in Lineage 2 and LOTRO people talk quite a bit.

But they talk with the people who matter, their guild mates!

After playing WoW, I now prefer MMO's where people do not chat constantly.  Most of the WoW chat was Barrens style chat where people just baited other people or told inane Chuck Norris jokes.

This trend concerns me as well but not only as it pertains to the MMO genre.

It has nothing to do with gaming.  Sure, there is a decrease spawned by ventrilo use and powerleveler mentality and yada yada yada ...  BUT,  the main problem is with our society in general. 

Noone wants to talk to or get to know thier neghbors like they used to.  People are becoming more and more withdrawn from society, not just gamers.  It's like something is in the air. 

I think if  we as people took the time to relax and enjoy the company of strangers/possible future friends then we would be better off for it.  it's a hard thing to do though with populations growing and diversity abounding.  It's not easy.

Some of the best times to be had is when you make a new friend or find out you just don't fit in with someone.  Either way you learn a lot about yourself and always take something away from it.

I think less chatting is by design from the developers. Its a way to  combat goldfarming. More and more features will be diluted because of this in the future. All opinion here..i have no idea if thats really a reason.