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[Moon Master]

First of all, the chat function in game, is bad. You cannot scroll up, and see the chat from earlier... or can you? I have not figured it out.

But anyways, this game needs an OUT OF GAME CHAT!

Oh plz god do this!

Something like trade chat from wow? Wonderful, awesome, gruesome, and trollish, but necessary!

People want to make friends, but sometimes the forums, and other websites are intimidating, whereas an in-game local chat can break the ice.

[blood4blood]

An in-game chat window would be nice; not sure why we've got the one that fades over time and doesn't allow scrolling up. An out-of-game chat lobby accessible through the client would be a huge improvement to the social qualities of the game, especially for being able to form actual pre-made PUG's instead of just dropping randomly by the matchmaker in solo queue, or only grouping with people already on your friends list.

[LORD TSARKON]

I like the idea of scrollable chat (arrow keys up/down)... but outside game chat? What do you think this is, a normal PC game with Lobbies from 1996? This is PGI MWO!!! Outside game chat means more bandwidth taken away from that precious lone server that wants to die everyday because it has to do MWO MAtchmaker....

The MAtchmaker programmers are already on Suicide Alert.... They dont need more things to add on... they need more money to fix current problems

[Mechteric]

You can turn off chat in the settings menu.

Not sure why you would... sure there's some aholes but its easy enough to ignore.


But yeah the ability to scroll chat would be very nice.

[Scyther]

Been long-standing major flaw with MWO since day one. A chat window accessible while you sit/configure/shop/whatever in the mech bay.

I've never played an MMO (other than MWO) that *didn't* have one. In every other game, it is where you meet people, form teams, ask for help, ask questions, schedule battles etc.

MWO is a TEAM game with NO TEAM BUILDING FUNCTIONS in-game! How weird is that?

I like MWO/PGI, support them with purchases etc, try not to be negative... but they have really dropped the ball on this one for years now.

(PGI - you need new players to come in, learn the game, enjoy the game, meet other players, team up, stick around and SPEND $$$. Now, do you think a new player is going to get more use out of a SOCIAL CHAT or out of a stock mode Urbie battle selection? Do the math. People play MMOs for the social aspect even if they mostly solo.)