AC2?

You are right. The chat system wasnt all that great before the MS servers were implemented. Or are you implying that the MS servers were there all along?

I distinctly remember one of the monthly patches including adding numerous features to the chat server (trade channel, local region channel, kingdom channel, etc). The chat problems exploded at that point. I stopped playing when they first implemented the pyrael chore hunt forthe golden age weapons.

The MS GUN chat stuff was added the patch they added those Regional, Trade and Global channels and it broke under the strain, (Not really that many players for it to be so strained either). It wasn''t until they removed the MS chat code and wrote their own that those problems were fixed.

And this is the chat code going into Mythica.

Well, to be fair, they''re going to have a lot longer to work with and improve that chat system before Mythica''s launch. On that point, however, if Mythica''s chat is fubar''d then there''s just no excuse.