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i think it's a just a way for them to earn more money

personnaly i only use worldchat when i realy want to buy/sell something or find a group faster... but most of the time zone chat will do the job (doesn't consume megaphones btw).

I still don't understand how can some people be so rich that they don't care to waste their money by talking about their like/trolling in worldchat

Its actually a common feature in the majority of mmo's.

There is several reasons for it too.

1 of course is to limit the amount of people using world chat irresponsibly such as spamming and just generally childish chat. obviously this still happens but at the players expense (at time of posting it would cost you 1050g per world chat message)

2 this also acts as a deterrent to gold sellers and such. Gold selling IS a business and logic tells you that increased costs makes business less viable.

3 for exclusivity. If i am writing a chat for all players in the faction to see, its going to be for a good reason. Now some would argue that lfg is a good reason. It is. But im willing to pay 1050g so that my lfg msg is seen by everyone and speeds up the process.

4 for correct usage of channels. You have zone chat, you have whisper, you have guild chat, there is no need for world chat unless its for reasons such as explained in [3].

Consider yourself lucky, in some mmorpgs, world chat (global chat) can only be bought with real money, here you can just use gold.