I have to agree, this feature really wouldn't bring much to the table other than a bunch of people acting like monkeys hyped up on Red Bull.
Well, then that's your opinion.
I would just like to think that most of AG's users aren't idiotic.
I'm glad you remember the chat feature from 2008 so well, but even if you're right about it having been elitist, that had nothing to do with why it was removed.
I never said it was removed because it was elitist.
As far as censoring goes; it's always going to be an issue of people trying to bypass them - this is why people should have the option to mute another player in a chat room.
If they're cool with censor dodging, don't mute them.
If not; just mute them.
Simple, eh?
A live chat on a site of this size would basically require 24/7 surveillance
Then give some people the ability to have power in the chat - so there is forum moderators and chat moderators.
And again; with reference to the hypothetical situation nonsense - if you don't want to listen to someone complain about DotD loading - the mute feature would come in handy.
It all just depends on how motivated both parties are to trade information.
Sure - but I'm not the type of person that is enthusiastic every time someone comments me that I refresh hectically to see if they've responded, so it could be an hour before I respond meaning the conversation between the two people is hindered.
clicking on your profile to check for updates is such a waste of time if you aren't guaranteed a new message from someone else 100% of the time.
As I said above; I don't refresh my page hectically to see if someone has replied to what I've said.
Anyhow - I was more concerned about the fact that all of the conversations are 1 on 1 which aren't always interesting, to be fair.
You actually don't have to play the game at all
I still have to have the game open and if I'm playing a different game, chances are I don't want the lag of another game getting in the way of my performance, plus I'd keep have to switching tabs to see the chat.
Also, I'm not saying that the CT regulars never used the messenger system, just that once they started to use CT - their usage of it declined pretty rapidly.
And, I'm not sure why CT was created, I wasn't around at the time though I'll try find out soon.
I'm not sure why the CT regulars aren't active these days and I never said it was solely because AG didn't have a chat but when they had their own - they eventually lost touch with AG as they didn't need it to contact each other any more.
We've had literally millions of people since then create AG accounts without their being any official chat feature, and there have been no documented cases of anyone leaving simply because of a lack of chat boxes.
Yes, of course millions of people still registered on AG over the past 5 years and they may not all have left because "darn, this site has no chat - I'm gonna leave" but maybe if there was one some of those people would still be here.
This year alone, 366,079 registered players completed stage one of Kingdom Rush. 151,090 of those players stuck around long enough to defeat Vez'nan, and not one of them hesitated to do so just because the site they defeated him on lacked a chat feature.
Obviously, some people don't care if the site they use has a chatroom or not but just because they completed a game doesn't mean that they wouldn't like one.
I've completed KR on this site and I'm in favour of a chatroom being implemented.
PS: 715k called a wave early on Kingdom Rush on Kongregate and 216k defeated Vez'nan, that doesn't mean they did it because there was a chatroom so what you're saying is quite irrelevant.
And yet, I have to argue that, in today's community, a chat thread could easily flourish for as long as it wanted
It could - but that doesn't mean it's not against the rules of the forum.
as right now, as we speak, in the Tavern, we have not one, but two chat threads of practically identical content
Both of which have content that isn't of interest to most with the exception of 5-6 people.
So, yeah.
I believe AG could do with a chatroom - it could potentially make new users stick around and make AG flourish into the site it once was (when there was a chatroom on the site)
