If there was one thing I wish the game offered, was a way to turn off Announce Chat (or better yet, turn it off completely like in Path of Exile or in Diablo III where you can leave all chat channels so that you don’t have to see any of what is mostly garbage).
The most annoying things in chat are from the folks completely no-lifing the game and creating the usual toxic drama. It’s why I tend to play these kind of games solo as much as possible because I want to disengage from real life when playing a game and don’t want to be on anyone elses clock, idiotic rules, or elitist expectations.
For whatever reason, Trion decided to allow verified players to make server wide announcements using these things that you can earn in-game called megaphones. Normally, server wide announce capability is usually reserved for system administrators or game moderators. Players therefore utilize megaphones as a general system wide chat as opposed to using general or party chat.
UPDATE: they finally did add a setting to remove Announce spam (I never did check the chat settings since the game went live). It’s not exactly perfect since the last announce is always shown above the general chat box as seen below.
