WoW Dragonflight patch 10.0.7 makes chat a more pleasant place

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The WoW Dragonflight patch 10.0.7 PTR gives us a glimpse at some of the upcoming features planned to arrive in Azeroth soon, and they include a welcome way to clean up chat. While the Blizzard game is unquestionably one of the best MMORPGs on PC despite many ups and downs over the years, there’s one area where World of Warcraft has always traditionally fallen behind rivals such as Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV.

If you’ve ever spent any time even in the vicinity of World of Warcraft, you’ve probably heard of ‘Barrens chat’ – the colloquial term for the unfiltered nightmare of players spouting their collective thoughts, arguments, and general trolling into the general chat window. It’s named after the Barrens, a large, low-level area that was once a hub for such hubbub. While trolls nowadays have mostly moved over to Trade chat to instigate their arguments, there’s no question that WoW is still packed with problematic players picking fights.

Perhaps more of a direct frustration is chat in dungeons and raids, which is equally notorious for its largely unforgiving and often confrontational nature. The trend of many WoW players finally checking out FFXIV over the last few years has been marked by, perhaps more than anything else, an astonishment at how generally friendly and encouraging the community is compared to WoW’s player base. The Blizzard MMO is notorious for players lambasting you with insults at the first sight of a mistake or bad build, before they unceremoniously boot you from the instance.

While I’d love to make some grand hypothesis about the overarching themes of Final Fantasy XIV encouraging friendliness and support, the most important factor in cultivating that friendly community has been the consistent