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ambassadorkael
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Greetings Captains,
On Monday, March 9 2020, we will stop supporting Global Chat across Cryptic games. This decision was not made lightly but was necessitated by the resources required to sustain this feature and the standard of quality we strive for across our games.
The following features will no longer be available:
• Cross game chat (including cross-game private message)
• Cross game private user-owned channels
• Cross game friend/ignore list
Cross channels that currently exist will remain within each game, with the messages staying within the shard the message originated from. For example, if you are a member of a channel on both STO and NW, you will still have the channel available in both games but only see messages that originate in the game you are currently on.
On Monday, March 9 2020, we will stop supporting Global Chat across Cryptic games. This decision was not made lightly but was necessitated by the resources required to sustain this feature and the standard of quality we strive for across our games.
The following features will no longer be available:
• Cross game chat (including cross-game private message)
• Cross game private user-owned channels
• Cross game friend/ignore list
Cross channels that currently exist will remain within each game, with the messages staying within the shard the message originated from. For example, if you are a member of a channel on both STO and NW, you will still have the channel available in both games but only see messages that originate in the game you are currently on.
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Does this affect Holodeck<->Tribble chat?
Yea, like you I've also mostly stopped playing Neverwinter in the last year. Will be sad to not message friends in other shards, like you I'm curious why, with Magic coming online soon though, be sad to not reconnect with old friends.
I only knew about it because I sometimes see notifications of friends logging on and off when they are playing other games.
It's not a feature I'll miss. There's little point in knowing that a fleet mate or friend is online when you can't play with him anyway.
Moderate ESD while you're at it.
That is actually a good point.
@ambassadorkael#6946
When will we see an end to 'person x has won item y' notifications? If I had to choose one feature that really doesn't add anything to the game...
It won't. The chat servers are different to the log in and game servers.
It's cost cutting more than anything, imo. There has been a long stated desire, by Cryptic, to divest themselves of "legacy tech" (something which Kael stated himself on stream back in the foundry sunset stream).
This is just another step on the road to STO shutdown.
It's easy to see this as well, when the server stops responding and you can tell you've DCed if you look at chat you'll see that it's still going even though everything else is frozen.
You can turn that off in Notifications.
But then we can't spam people with questions like "do you want that?" or "I'll give you [insert ridiculous lowball price] for that!" 🤣🤣 (Everytime I've won a ship I've had this happen to me)
I'm aware of that.
What I'm pointing out here is that if actual chat functions are going to be abandoned, pointless advertising that is of no use (and the broadcasting of which can indeed not be controlled by the user to whom it applies) to anyone might as well also be removed.
Considering that one of the things (cross-game chat) takes a bunch of resources, and the other (in-game notifications) takes very little, I'm not sure why you're trying to equate the two. Outside of the "omg, f2p games have loot boxes! How dare they!" thing, of course.
(personally, I never knew this existed. Of course, I have no friends list and don't chat with anyone, so I'd never have used it in the first place. /shrug)
Don't be a cassandra about this. I agree with the move from legacy tech to more modern systems. No, this is not another step on the road to STO shutdown. This means they care about the product as well as their other games. This is a good thing.
I dont see how this is good, We wont be able to talk to our friends that switched to other cryptic games.
Please reverse this decision, I have many friends spread across the three games and the cross-chat is the only way of keeping in contact with them. It's always been a useful feature I've enjoyed using over the years. This is a detriment to the player-base in a massive way. Please do not do this.
-Pariba
another "doom" statement
I'm apart a community that splits time between STO and Champions. And the Cross Game chat is as much apart of my gaming experience as anything else.
WIll this affect my playing? Not really. It will diminish what connections I have to the community I mentioned though. And that rubs me a little raw.
Cryptic, would you actulaly like me to spend actual Money? It's Simple:
I prefer the Neverwinter system where it just releases the character name instead of the account name.
I have a question.
The channels above have persons designated as owner, administrator, and operator for the purpose of moderation.
So uh
what happens to that channel in the other games where it's cut off from those people? Does its owner still own it, or does no one own it and you're just creating tons of unmoderated channels
its fine though, they shoveled out another lockbox ship and killed a feature in the games to do it.