No Chat Lobbies is FAIL (BNet2.0)

It is my personal opinion that even with all the new features presented, it is critical that Blizzard brings back chat channels. I don’t understand how they cannot be in their priority list. I really don’t want to make a channel based on an IM-feature. I understand the efficiency that new battle.net provides but still having no chat channels makes everything harder. Some questions that I think chat channels help with are:

How can talk to multiple people?
How can you coordinate with your clan?
How can you meet and find other players outside AMM?
How can you have new friends you just met, meet other friends you have?

Anyone else thinks the same?

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Originally Posted by Woland

It is my personal opinion that even with all the new features presented, it is critical that Blizzard brings back chat channels. I don’t understand how they cannot be in their priority list. I really don’t want to make a channel based on an IM-feature. I understand the efficiency that new battle.net provides but still having no chat channels makes everything harder. Some questions that I think chat channels help with are:

How can talk to multiple people?
How can you coordinate with your clan?
How can you meet and find other players outside AMM?
How can you have new friends you just met, meet other friends you have?

Anyone else thinks the same?

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As long as the chat channels aren't as insanely messed up as the ones in StarCraft Bnet, that would be fine. I'm assuming they have something in mind to cover all of those issues, but unfortunately we don't know what they are yet.

I guess you could invite multiple friends to a common conversation, like in all IMs.

From what I understand, this is what they intended:

1. They don't like the "funnel everyone here" style channels as it was pretty much just spambots now.
2. They felt they were too difficult to get into (example: WC3 some people skipped them overall)
3. They want to add channels AFTER LAUNCH that will have "themes of discussion"
4. You can have 1 on 1 im chat, party chat and invite anyone you want to a chat that exists.
5. They have not announced any CLAN support information yet, so therefore it's unknown about the clan channels will happen.

Boy am I going to miss the channel "Sex."

I'm sorry, but after watching the Bnet 2.0 walkthrough and seeing that it uses an instant messaging type set up, as oppose to a chat lobby is complete bullshit.

First off, he gives the reason of "..oh its hard to keep conversations together in chat lobbies, etc." Are you high or just mentally disabled? Half of the time when you are in a chat lobby, you're a in lobby that you like to hang out it and talk in. He makes it out to be that lobbies are a bad thing and don't facilitate the bnet experience. This brings me to my main point. CHAT LOBBIES are essential for the bnet community to develop. You wait and see, a majority of people that play are going to end up with VERY few friends. I mean, my friends list in WC3 was maxed out all the time. Meeting new people in chat rooms was the EASIEST way to AT (Arranged Team, ie. 2v2,3v3). With lobbies gone, you are succumbed to meeting people via ladder and/or sc2 websites.

I am UTTERLY disappointed in the direction bnet 2.0 is taking with this decision. Mark my word, this is a bad decision, and we all will feel its consequences.

EDIT: Plus, its not always about meeting people to play games in regard to chat lobbies. Sometimes your taking a break from games and you chill in a lobby to shoot the breeze and/or talk about strategy.

Also, I'd like to point out that in WC3, many chat lobbies (clan or not clan) would use bots which kept the channel organized. Especially protecting itself from spam bots. Again, I reiterate, THIS IS STUPID.

Oh crap, I made my very own rant thread =/

A poster from TL summed it up the best.

"Let's unite the blizzard community! But you can't actually talk to each other....."

(TAKEN FROM MY THREAD POST)

I'm sorry, but after watching the Bnet 2.0 walkthrough and seeing that it uses an instant messaging type set up, as oppose to a chat lobby is complete bullshit.

First off, he gives the reason of "..oh its hard to keep conversations together in chat lobbies, etc." Are you high or just mentally disabled? Half of the time when you are in a chat lobby, you're a in lobby that you like to hang out it and talk in. He makes it out to be that lobbies are a bad thing and don't facilitate the bnet experience. This brings me to my main point. CHAT LOBBIES are essential for the bnet community to develop. You wait and see, a majority of people that play are going to end up with VERY few friends. I mean, my friends list in WC3 was maxed out all the time. Meeting new people in chat rooms was the EASIEST way to AT (Arranged Team, ie. 2v2,3v3). With lobbies gone, you are succumbed to meeting people via ladder and/or sc2 websites.

I am UTTERLY disappointed in the direction bnet 2.0 is taking with this decision. Mark my word, this is a bad decision, and we all will feel its consequences.

EDIT: Plus, its not always about meeting people to play games in regard to chat lobbies. Sometimes your taking a break from games and you chill in a lobby to shoot the breeze and/or talk about strategy.

Also, I'd like to point out that in WC3, many chat lobbies (clan or not clan) would use bots which kept the channel organized. Especially protecting itself from spam bots. Again, I reiterate, THIS IS STUPID.

EDITX2: Maybe I'm missing something, are they refering to discontinuing public channels only and leave the ability for people to manually create their own lobbies. Also, would that include clan lobbies as well. Because in all honesty, clan lobbies are what I am more interested in. Chillin in clan lobbies is what people do 90% of the time when looking for people to play with.

Lol they are going to have public lobbies and an instant messaging interface for private messaging which is much harder to do in the same lobby.

/thread