Chat placement and movies make for unsocial play.

This is the best part about the Internet... it's underscores the poor reading comprehension that many folks have.

I never said that everyone should put their window where mine is. I said that the DEFAULT position is a poor design choice. That DEFAULT position has negative consequences in the game.

It's just bad UI design. Plain and simple. Making that one change would, in my opinion, radically improve the socialization in the game.

That's not entirely what I meant. You're insisting that because you think the placement of the chat window sucks, that "all too often things go unnoticed because no one is paying attention to it."

I do hear you though... My friends and I blast long messages at each other at times when we get on to get the person online's attention... Not kidding, we'll send each other...

"Hey, I am online now.............................................
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Ley's go kill Jedi.............................................. ......."

When your whole text box fills up with pink dots, it gets your attention even in cinematics...

I find that they are doing everything in their power to make the game ANTI-SOCIAL.



1. Everything is instanced. The open world areas are sharded. So you see less of the populations. Bump into less of the population. Have little reason and a huge road block to interaction which strips the social building blocks.

2. There are no server boards. So you cannot see anyone post from your server easily. No one has the out of game chats and discussions that make a tighter community. We are all lost amongst millions of complaints on a feral generic board.

-There is not place for the RPers to post and coordinate events. There is no place for PvP players and guilds to make rivalries and pepper propoganda that builds beyond the bland mechanic of the game. No place for guilds to communicate between each other and make community efforts that could benefit the server as a whole.

3 There is no Global channel to compensate for the lack of any where else to communicate. All the channels inside the game are regulated to planet areas. If you are on taris, you get to talk to the Taris community. To talk to the tatooine community you have to.. travel to tattooine.

-That is literally how it is shaping up so far. Little isolated communities within the linear game.




So.. I do not know of any way to break up the communities on each server and within each server as efficiently as they have done so far.

No you are not understanding him here. You claim that the default chat window location is bad because no one can see it. You want the default position FOR EVERYONE to be lower left. The means you want everyone else to have the default position to be where you want it to be. The best position where everyone can see it is DEAD CENTER of the screen. That way no one will miss anything you have to say.

All this concern over the chat window placement is so trivial and really not structured feedback, its personal preference, I myself am accustomed and like it in the bottom left corner but honestly I can care less if its in the upper part of the screen, does it REALLY make that big of a difference? I don't believe so.

P.S. Quit saying "watching movies" it makes me cringe, it is not a movie or a cut-scene, you cannot interact with a movie, therefore a movie it is not

They are movies, though. Ever see a DVD where you can choose different outcomes at predetermined times? Sure! It's still a movie.

The impact that UI design has on a game can be very subtle. This is why companies spend so much money to focus test and design their UIs carefully. To a casual observer this small point may seem trivial and unimportant. Yet, it may well make a tremendous difference in how folks approach the game.

Tiny things can actually make a big difference in my experience.

While i am not a native english speaker, i doubt that term "movie" has anything to do with what is called "cut scenes" in computer games.

American word "movie" is synonym to "film". Both terms were used in times before computers and therefore can not be used for computer games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutscene

I think, you just don't have much experience with computer games. You are playing MMOs and have little experience with true RPG and Quests (genre).
To much "kill 10 rats", which is a core element of pretty much every PVE mmorpg. And until SWTOR mmo games was just dumbed down (compared to true RPGs) grindfests (including ever popular WoW) on the way to so-called "endgame", except maybe for DDO and Guild Wars.

P.S.: At first i did not understood what movies are you talking about.

A cutscene (sometimes in-game cinematic or in-game movie)

Again, see the original post. I'm speaking about the DEFAULT position. Not where I could change it to.

The DEFAULT position is not conducive to easy chat. It's literally the worst place you can put a chat window.

Just because I can move mine doesn't help the fact that other people have it at the DEFAULT position. So, the socialization suffers because of this.

Maybe other people like it where it is, I know I like it in the upper left corner.