I have been playing since the closed beta and have yet to see an actual GM in the game. There doesnt seem to be any moderation in the zone chat at all. People clog up the channel talking about things totally unrelated to STO and when confronted just say they can chat about whatever they want. I for one play the game to get away from the daily grind and politics but when the chat channel is full of random discussions of other games, politics or whatever isnt STO related it is frustrating.
I have played alot of MMO's and have never seen unmoderated chat in any of them. It is ashame that I have to turn off the zone chat to avoid the irrelavant conversations and would much rather help people figure out how to play the game (which is impossible if I have zone chat off).
I'm just saying that it would be nice to have a GM that is paying attention to the chat channels and moderating as needed. Im sure there are plenty of people in game that would be willing to volunteer to moderate for you. But please something needs to be done.
I have been playing since the closed beta and have yet to see an actual GM in the game. There doesnt seem to be any moderation in the zone chat at all. People clog up the channel talking about things totally unrelated to STO and when confronted just say they can chat about whatever they want. I for one play the game to get away from the daily grind and politics but when the chat channel is full of random discussions of other games, politics or whatever isnt STO related it is frustrating.
I have played alot of MMO's and have never seen unmoderated chat in any of them. It is ashame that I have to turn off the zone chat to avoid the irrelavant conversations and would much rather help people figure out how to play the game (which is impossible if I have zone chat off).
I'm just saying that it would be nice to have a GM that is paying attention to the chat channels and moderating as needed. Im sure there are plenty of people in game that would be willing to volunteer to moderate for you. But please something needs to be done.
I've played a fair few mmo's and most are not moderated to that extent, indeed, most allow the free form chat it's the users who actually tell people to take it offline - perhaps STO has a lot of non-etiquette mmo people on? I really don't care either way to be honest, as I can use that button to switch it off when I don't like it.
I've never heard of moderated chat in a MMO. People talk about what they like for the most part, and if someone does something against the rules, people report them and the GM's sort it out with the offenders privately.
Ive noticed this too; and it seems to be the same way for the most part on the forums too unless youre trying to out a guy thats a thief, then the moderation comes in heavy and swift
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I've played a fair few mmo's and most are not moderated to that extent, indeed, most allow the free form chat it's the users who actually tell people to take it offline - perhaps STO has a lot of non-etiquette mmo people on? I really don't care either way to be honest, as I can use that button to switch it off when I don't like it.
If you don't want to deal with reading it, do like me and set your chat window to NPC or Combat. Never deal with Zone chat again.