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Is there a way to turn off all chat? I'm new and haven't played a game yet because I do not like the chat. It is annoying, its too public, and when I can't turn it off I always end up with some super annoying person (no offense to annoying people but you are in fact annoying). And I do not like the idea of talking to people that I do not know in real life and will never know, not knowing anything about them, who they are, and so on. Comprenden? Please tell me how to turn off chat?

Hi Solomon,

Don't be afraid: most of the time, players here just say "Hi", "Good luck" and "Good game". If you don't want to chat, just ignore the other players and they will probably ignore you.

Cheers,

I don't like new chat.

Solomon_97 wrote:Is there a way to turn off all chat? I'm new and haven't played a game yet because I do not like the chat. It is annoying, its too public, and when I can't turn it off I always end up with some super annoying person (no offense to annoying people but you are in fact annoying). And I do not like the idea of talking to people that I do not know in real life and will never know, not knowing anything about them, who they are, and so on. Comprenden? Please tell me how to turn off chat?

If you're talking about the main chat (as opposed to the in-game chat), just ignore them. I never get people bugging me other than suggesting I join their game. (Which is indeed a bit annoying, cause if I wanted to join, I'd do it.) But I don't have to respond to those people.

I finally got to check the actual chat out today with someone because I wasn't sure what some people were talking about. Definitely don't like it. I dislike having stuff on top of my screen that I'm not looking at, so I don't like having those little black boxes down there. Plus you have to keep opening them, and then have to close them to get them out of the way. They're always on top of what I"m trying to look at.

It seems to me this is something you could make an option. I was fine with personal chat messages showing up to the left with the main stuff, and was also fine with them showing up in a game. It appeared to me that this still works, making it unnecessary to have that box down there. So why not just make it optional to turn that box off?

Whatever, make a setting and the chat can from bottom to top.

I know this goes beyond a cosmetic change, but it would be a lot better if there could be a memory of what was said. When we have to hit F5 to reload a page, or we have to restart a browser, or some other unexpected reasons, we lose all our chat windows and everything that was said in them.

I like the facebook-like concept for chat, but it really needs to have the robustness in order to benefit from it.

I definitely like the new system, but noticed a bit of a quirk. I went to a table, however others filled it up before I could join. I left, rejoined my own table, but the chat from the first table was still there and updating. It's easy to close it, but just thought that was funny. In any case, I think this should definitely be updated in game. It may also be useful to separate the chat from the game log. Thanks.

under the tabs "news" "play now" and so on, and well divided by the main screen with the tables on the centre/right without any chance of confusion.