Level 20. No Chat Channels?

[Aerissa]

How am i supposed to interact with the other players and get newbie questions answered without being able to use the chat channels? "You haven't played this charatcer long enough"... great, so i guess ill continue whispering random players and hope they reply when i want to interact with people on an MMO game!

[Sticky Wicket]

I'm pretty sure that was put in as a device to stop random people just making up a character and spamming the chat channels gold-selling and advertising illegal stuff. There was a lot of problems with that when the game first began.

In the meantime, just ask people stuff, most of the community is very friendly and helpful. Joining a kinship is a good way to learn the game and meet people. I can recommend Laurelin server if you like rp too.

[edorward]

It's not based on level - it's based on in-game time. Also, are you F2P? I want to say the restriction goes away if you become premium or VIP.

[Aerissa]

Originally posted by edorward:

It's not based on level - it's based on in-game time. Also, are you F2P? I want to say the restriction goes away if you become premium or VIP.

I am currently F2P until level 30 then picking up VIP.

Originally posted by Got to be Real:

I'm pretty sure that was put in as a device to stop random people just making up a character and spamming the chat channels gold-selling and advertising illegal stuff. There was a lot of problems with that when the game first began.

In the meantime, just ask people stuff, most of the community is very friendly and helpful. Joining a kinship is a good way to learn the game and meet people. I can recommend Laurelin server if you like rp too.

I understand about the spamming on the channels but that is alot of time before i can use it. It's just frustrating i cant interact with the chats after getting past the beginning areas.

[Greythorn]

Afaik it should just be 3-4 hours before being able to chat?
Or has that been changed?

[Cheeki Breeki]

That's weird it used to be a lot less like lvl 10 maybe.

[oreyos]

Originally posted by Greythorn:

Afaik it should just be 3-4 hours before being able to chat?
Or has that been changed?

Due to the increase of gold sellers recently, they increased the requirements to access the chat channel for F2P players to L20.

That's only for new players IIRC, so if you already have a >L20 player, you can chat with a new character right away.

Also, Premium/VIP players have no chat access restrictions.

[goforrest]

Originally posted by oreyos:

Originally posted by Greythorn:

Afaik it should just be 3-4 hours before being able to chat?
Or has that been changed?

Due to the increase of gold sellers recently, they increased the requirements to access the chat channel for F2P players to L20.

That's only for new players IIRC, so if you already have a >L20 player, you can chat with a new character right away.

Also, Premium/VIP players have no chat access restrictions.

what if you are a person who put in money and was a sub before>? still lock for that? lol

i dont see why they would. seeing how gold spammers really dont put in that much money and time into it. lol

[oreyos]

Originally posted by goforrest:

Originally posted by oreyos:

Due to the increase of gold sellers recently, they increased the requirements to access the chat channel for F2P players to L20.

That's only for new players IIRC, so if you already have a >L20 player, you can chat with a new character right away.

Also, Premium/VIP players have no chat access restrictions.

what if you are a person who put in money and was a sub before>? still lock for that? lol

i dont see why they would. seeing how gold spammers really dont put in that much money and time into it. lol

No, if you're a player that has a character >20, the chat restriction is lifted for new toons.

There were quite a lot of gold spammers lately. First there was a time restriction (+ you had to be out of the intro), but that was easy enough to wait out for the gold spammers. Now they need to reach L20, which will take too much time for them to make it worthwhile. (At least, that is the idea)

[UNCLE STINKFISH]

22 hours, 2 characters - I couldn't access world chat - so I spent 70 euros - on another popular mmorpg....

LOTRO - U suck...

[oreyos]

Originally posted by STINKFISH:

22 hours, 2 characters - I couldn't access world chat - so I spent 70 euros - on another popular mmorpg....

LOTRO - U suck...

If you had spend $15 on LotRO you wouldn't have had any restrictions. But hey, if you rather spend $70 on another game, be my guest.

Bye

[My Oak]

Originally posted by oreyos:

Originally posted by STINKFISH:

22 hours, 2 characters - I couldn't access world chat - so I spent 70 euros - on another popular mmorpg....

LOTRO - U suck...

If you had spend $15 on LotRO you wouldn't have had any restrictions. But hey, if you rather spend $70 on another game, be my guest.

Bye

Sunk cost fallacy. You shouldn't need to jump hurdles to say hello in a chat that's mostly personal life spam and bs after playing. I'm a level 17 with 23 hours, and still can't engage in small talk. That's the exact type of thing that will make new players walk away forever.

[Harvain]

Level 20 for Free to Play has been a Restriction for Years now due to the large amount of Gold Spammers LOTRO used to get.

Premium is Level 10.

VIP is being out of the Introduction.

There "shouldn't" be any other restrictions although I feel like there used to be a 2 Hour Play Time needed for the Account too but I'm not seeing that info anymore. So at least the above is correct: F2P = Level 20, Premium = Level 10, VIP = Out of Intro for any of these Accounts to use any of the Global Chats.

[Emma]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.