Global's chat availability

[JinxedHatesYou]

Greetings. I am here to adress the issue of global chat being inavailable in game.

Players may want global chat be accessible in game for a number of reasons:
1) CA's are not able to efficiently monitor the global chat and play at same time. Even if someone adresses CA and asks him to neutralise the situation in global chat, CA is most likely to be clueless about the situation if he right off the match and will be highly dependant on reporter's personal perception of situation. Which is not good.
2) Players may want just to chat during long sniping sessions.
3) Players are often missing announcements about events like Iron Fork or Dev games while in match.

My suggestion is to enable global chat for players currently in game.
Counter-arguments:
1) "But global chat will spam the game"
Not true, since global chat remains in separate tab.

[shaelyn]

ooooh.  so some sort of button to toggle between global chat and match chat?  is there a button for that already?  I use the mouse to toggle between tabs, and I don't think that'll work in a match.

...yeah, I like the idea.

[Sprayer]

You can already access the global chat ingame - hit ESC, click on one of the tabs in the top left (social or community I believe) which gives you a chatwindow, click global tab in the chat window. Only problem is, you seem not to recieve any messages from the global chat.... just as well as everything you write isn't being forwarded.

[shaelyn]

You can already access the global chat ingame - hit ESC, click on one of the tabs in the top left (social or community I believe) which gives you a chatwindow, click global tab in the chat window. Only problem is, you seem not to recieve any messages from the global chat.... just as well as everything you write isn't being forwarded.

...and that seems rather clumsy to me.  I think there should be a button combination to just toggle back and forth very quickly between match chat and global chat, the same way clicking on the tabs in a lobby would very quickly toggle between them.

[JinxedHatesYou]

Only problem is, you seem not to recieve any messages from the global chat.... just as well as everything you write isn't being forwarded.

That is pretty much why I created this thread.

[Hoja Lateralus]

I e-mailed it to the Devs and got response that Global Chat would probably be too distracting for the players in matches. So unless someone will prove them wrong in their mail - I don't see any of suggestion here making it to the game.

[AbbyTheRat]

Too.. distracting..

[shaelyn]

...thing is, if it's in tabs, only the people interested in keeping up with the global chat will opt to distract themselves with it.  and for everyone else, it'll largely be the same.

and I don't see it any more distracting as having to chat with a player that doesn't have a mic.

really I don't care about having global chat too much, I wouldn't use it hardly, but I support the ones that want it - I don't think it's a bad idea if implemented correctly.

[Wolfprints]

If it's put in as a tab, then people who find it too distracting can just choose to hide it.

[JinxedHatesYou]

As I explained it already in OP.

I am not suggesting to force the global chat into a match chat.
All I am suggesting not to turn it off when player joins the match.

Lost me? Alright now go to game and do the following:
1) Create a practice match
2) Push ESC
3) Push COMMUNITY
4) You will see the chat.
5) The chat in match features 3 channels:
-Match
-Clan
-Global
6) Unless you specifically switch your active chat tab to global you are not supposed to see the global chat out of it's chat tab