Okay…wow you guys use phrases like “so much potential for abuse” like the entirety of the english language was designed to offend. Having an in game chat will open doors for conversation, people who are abusive can be easily muted and/or reported. The report function use useless as is anyway, what am i to even report people for if they don’t even have any way to transgress. It feels restrictive that I can’t comunicate with people while I play. I personally like to commend my opponents for cool and unique plays, discuss decks, make jokes and yes trash talk! Because if i wipe someones feild, place 4 eggs, a kron, a prisoner and an earth sister I deserve to be just a bit boastful!
Number 1 reason I want in game chat
Whats it for? What am I muting? The barely noticable emotes? This is ridiculous.
There are people in this game who literally get offended at “Well Played” near the end of a game, or even being tipped gold! Once I heard that I realized there was no limit to what folks can get upset about.
I believe it’s an internet thing. People care less about their actions because they can’t be seen so talk more rubbish, abuse stuff, etc. If you talk to someone in the face, people are generally more polite because they don’t want to see an angry face.
Text has no tone unlike talking. So people misinterpret stuff said. Sometimes you have a bad mood, maybe because you lost. You see bad as bad. Good is seen as sarcasm and so is bad. You might see something good like getting tipped as getting pitied and feel bad.
Being able to mute emotes has its uses. Maybe very very rarely. In my many months of Duelyst I have met one person who spammed emotes every second. Wish I knew there was mute button then. Report button was handy.
System now seem good. Emotes are fun 
Muting emotes seems like such a pointless thing to do when emotes don’t remotely do anything distracting or otherwise hindering
As for friend chat, a way to see messages from in-game/any screen (Facebook-like) would be nice indeed. I might try writing a script for that.
I’m happy for you that emotes, when obviously used to troll or provoke people, don’t bother you. I have to auto-mute players because I find it very aggravating. I’m actually a little jealous, as I genuinely wish it didn’t bug me so much.
I actually end up hoping to see emotes because even though its minimal it is still some form of communication
Use t2k5’s script. I always have it on, it’s not a matter of being trolled, just distracted.
I think the whole idea of emotes is terrible. I wouldn’t make stupid faces at someone while they were trying to concentrate on a chess move, why would I do it here?
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I disagree with In-Game chat; plenty of people have made the arguments, but I really want to see Friends Chat working much better.
By that I mean at least remembering conversations.
It saddens me sometimes where if I add someone, who turns out to be a really cool guy, half the time I’ll end up forgetting about them and then never recalling why they’re in my Friends List.
P.S. I do like the emotes system as well. It’s fun to attempt to communicate via faces. Though this is prone to failure, as it leaves the door open for people to colour its intent with their imagination, hence why most emotes just trigger people.
I certainly can’t say I’m exempt from this.
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I personally have way to much fun with the emotes, but I wish there were more hand gestures personally. Gives me Dark Souls vibes so I wish I had a good empty handed shrug and a thumbs up.
I always try to add people after a good match, win or lose, to let them know I enjoyed playing them. Now I have to wonder how badly I’m triggering people with the old “Well Played” followed by what I believe to be the closest thing to a bow.
I wish people didn’t get so offended over games.
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I completely agree with that. The firend chat is horrible:
It cannot be seen in game, which makes it hard to teach the game to someone
The lack of chat log is a problem indeed, and makes remembering who’s who pretty hard.
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the closes to in game chat is by sending them a friend invite while playing them. then you talk to them as a “friend.” people have done this to me before. majority of the time its fun, but once in a while you get that jerk. the one who goes ahead and starts screaming at you, tell you that you suck, ect. those kinds of people i wish didn’t have access to the internet.