"Chat Spam" - Why?

[Cold|Heat]

"Chat spam" is the perhaps most annoying feature of the game.

Why was it introduced in the first place? I know that because of reasons of political events the chat was deactivated for some time but why was the chat spam introduced? The game worked perfectly before without it and it's 30 seconds cooldown is "mildly annoying" if you want to properly communicate.

[Nenne.]

You know why.
What kind of question is that.

[rodbarker007]

I was asking if anyone was getting bad stutters and poor hit reg and I got Chat Spam lol, they want to gag any problems,

[Gravlar]

Originally posted by rodbarker007:

I was asking if anyone was getting bad stutters and poor hit reg and I got Chat Spam lol, they want to gag any problems,

Lol, yeah you totally haven’t just fallen foul of the 30s timer, they’re out to gag you.

[Cold|Heat]

Originally posted by Nenne.:

You know why.
What kind of question is that.

No I don't.

As I said the game lived for 9 years perfectly without it as rarely anyone ever spammed and if that was truly the intention then 5 seconds would already be enough.

[Qonqueror]

Skill issue, join the Hivemind and you don't need Chat.

[Lithuex]

Ye this is super annoying and needs to go - every now and then I get a game with someone whos calling stuff out and I wanna chat with them about what we should do but the chat filter makes it impossible. Why not just put a cooldown/overuse thing on people that ping that same message 4-5 times and leave typing chat alone? We can always block people that spam

[♠Gamer3106♠]

Originally posted by TGR Qonqueror:

Skill issue, join the Hivemind and you don't need Chat.

How the ♥♥♥♥ is this even a skill issue?

30 seconds for a chat cool down is too much.
10 seconds will suffice, 30 are overkill

[Druckform | INSOMNIAC 3D]

there shouldnt even be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cooldown, its a chat. if someone spams then report them. i shouldnt have to wait 30 seconds to let a teammate know theres an enemy near them since no ♥♥♥♥ watches the map, or tell my team to start marking enemies when i come in with bombs.

[Harry Nurpplez]

Originally posted by Cold|Heat:

Originally posted by Nenne.:

You know why.
What kind of question is that.

No I don't.

Yes you do. Think about it. They literally told us why. What real world event has been occurring since late february? This naturally caused massive political spam in the chat.

[sewedfrrdrr]

due to the "situation in europe" the chat spam thing is 30 seconds long

[Cold|Heat]

Originally posted by Harry Nurpplez:

Originally posted by Cold|Heat:

No I don't.

Yes you do. Think about it. They literally told us why. What real world event has been occurring since late february? This naturally caused massive political spam in the chat.

Since they reactivated the chat I haven't seen a single political discussion or people calling each other names so what exactly is a 30 seconds "chat spam" helping in this regard? All it does is prohibit that I can warn my teammates about incoming enemy planes.

And even if that might have been the original reason for the chat deactivation: Other Gaijin games like Enlisted and other russian company games like WoT or WoWS didn't even needed to limit the chat in any way. So either the WT community is especially toxic or this whole action of Gaijin was rather excessive.