[Bruce]

That's not the point. You don't have that old sphere feeling where you had to socialize with people face to face. I don't have to constantly turn it on and off to see what people are saying. I know it's there so why not leave it on? If a GM decides to talk in chat I would like to see it because you guys rarely ever broadcast anything.. and if you like seeing a bunch of teens using profanity and harassing other players or letting the whole shard know someone looted a GH and have people quit over it. Whatever I don't mean to offend you in any way but I just think that you saying 'You can just turn it off' means you don't really see the point.

Someone people like it.... some people don't... we don't make you use it.
If you don't want to see all the crap (which i agree there is to much of it) you have the option to turn it off.
Just because you don't want to see it doesn't mean others feel the same.

I understand where you are coming from but at the same time we need to cater to everyone's needs and the option to have it on or off does that.