I dont like colored in-game text trick

[Velorek]

Personally, I wish they would remove this ability. I know it seems harmless and fun to some but please realize that it can impact others who are used to assigning colors to certain chat texts to better distinguish what's what. After all, that's why the options to assign colors is there, so I can easily distinguish between groupsay, raidsay, guildsay and so on without having to actually read where it came from. Colors allow you to better distinguish what came from who, and so forth.

It's more than that though. Certain colors can be used as alerts or warning signals for certain events. For instance, I'm accustomed to seeing my battle spam hits as yellow, my misses as white and hits on me as deep red. If during a raid I suddenly start seeing a series of white or red messages fly up in the corner of my eye, I know immediately what's happening and can respond. I don't like the idea that someone else can throw that off simply because they wanted me to see their chat in red versus what I assigned it to.

I don't mean to rain on the parade but again, it's a matter of control. Why include in the interface the options to customize your own chat texts if someone else can change it for you without your consent. Besides, I could see the potential for abuse with this too. It was only a few weeks ago that several accounts on our server were banned for tampering with the chat commands and using them to impersonate other players.