# 1.0.9: Can global chat be turned off but guild chat be kept on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 10, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381 "2016-03-10T07:34:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkness/32/2712_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/1 "2016-03-10T07:34:02Z")
Like the title says: Can you turn off the global channel but keep the guild channel on? I really don’t need messages and achievements from random people flashing on my screen. I don’t mind having those things from my guildmates, but why would I want that from completely random people? ---
**Author:** ![Royalty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/royalty/32/1683_2.png) [@Royalty](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Royalty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/2 "2016-03-10T07:44:52Z")
Totally agree! ---
**Author:** ![Andrew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/andrew/32/11684_2.png) [@Andrew](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Andrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/3 "2016-03-10T07:46:01Z")
Currently it can’t. We will look add this feature in though. As a workaround for now, you can try switching channels to an obscure channel number, without much activity in it. ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkness/32/2712_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/4 "2016-03-10T08:01:31Z")
Thanks for the response Andrew. This is unfortunate, and also a bit of a strange development (and IMHO a bit of an error with regards to how the dev team designed it) So you’ve essentially left me with 3 choices: 1 - Leave the chat on and get totally spammed by messages from completely random people. 2 - Switching to obscure channels and I guess keep switching when that channel’s activity increases. 3 - Turn it all off and have no way of communicating with my guildmates. None of these choices are as good as the old guild chat system, IMHO. So, basically, this part of the patch actually broke a part of the game that was working well (or at least working better than it is now) ---
**Author:** ![Andrew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/andrew/32/11684_2.png) [@Andrew](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Andrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/5 "2016-03-10T08:09:02Z")
I’ve just made the chat channels 990-999 all silent channels. You can join them, but no messages can be sent/received in them. That’s probably the best we can do for now, we’ll see if we can make this more clear to users who are experiencing similar issues. ---
**Author:** ![kzintiwife](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kzintiwife/32/2350_2.png) [@kzintiwife](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/kzintiwife)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/6 "2016-03-10T08:09:39Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkness/32/2712_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 9:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/7 "2016-03-10T09:27:08Z")
> [@Andrew](#): > > I’ve just made the chat channels 990-999 all silent channels. You can join them, but no messages can be sent/received in them. > > That’s probably the best we can do for now, we’ll see if we can make this more clear to users who are experiencing similar issues. Great news! Thanks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sidousai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sidousai/32/604_2.png) [@Sidousai](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sidousai)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/8 "2016-03-10T09:33:15Z")
> [@Andrew](#): > > Currently it can’t. We will look add this feature in though. Whoa… new guy? ---
**Author:** ![Nimhain](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nimhain/32/47049_2.png) [@Nimhain](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Nimhain)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/9 "2016-03-10T10:47:24Z")
> [@ctu1208](#): > > Whoa… new guy? No Andrew has been around since the beginning. He doesn’t pop up on the forums as much as Sirrian and me. ---
**Author:** ![dhjl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dhjl/32/3981_2.png) [@dhjl](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/dhjl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/10 "2016-03-10T14:45:20Z")
> [@Darkness](#): > > I really don’t need messages and achievements from random people flashing on my screen. I don’t mind having those things from my guildmates, but why would I want that from completely random people? > [@Darkness](#): > > So, basically, this part of the patch actually broke a part of the game that was working well I agree completely with this. I for one could not care less about Global Chat, and yet I have to go through it just to talk with my guild? Why couldn’t the guild chat have been kept separate and left where it was? At least that way, it would still be possible to communicate with them: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/2X/9/95ab20c228cdfe59e673bf17d438030c8d9356fb.png) Not to mention, when it **is** working, the Guild tab has a habit of disappearing: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/2X/d/de711e58c85edc4fd9af576c8ba6bd177949c3f5.png) > [@Andrew](#): > > As a workaround for now, you can try switching channels to an obscure channel number That’s actually one of the first things I did, but it doesn’t really help with the above problems… ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/11 "2016-03-10T17:11:20Z")
I think we can safely say that notifications for legendaries can be restricted to _new_ legendaries that the player doesn’t have. i.e. nobody cares that the lvl1000 player got their fifteenth Silent One or Gorgotha or whatnot. It isn’t the same as that lvl200 player finally getting Sheggra. ---
**Author:** ![Mufasha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mufasha/32/1327_2.png) [@Mufasha](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mufasha)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/12 "2016-03-26T13:41:06Z")
> [@Andrew](#): > > I’ve just made the chat channels 990-999 all silent channels. You can join them, but no messages can be sent/received in them. > > That’s probably the best we can do for now, we’ll see if we can make this more clear to users who are experiencing similar issues. @Andrew the mute on these chats appears to not have survived the server issues this morning. ---
**Author:** ![killerman3333](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/killerman3333/32/4068_2.png) [@killerman3333](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/killerman3333)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/1-0-9-can-global-chat-be-turned-off-but-guild-chat-be-kept-on/4381/13 "2016-04-21T08:57:16Z")
This explains why i see nothing in the chat.