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I’m hearing you, Josh. I’m also in a few of those launch groups. The rapid chat makes for a steep but beneficial learning curve. For some it might be too fast. I personally don’t have any deep burning issues with messenger, but FB and it’s world domination mindset is bloody annoying. On the other hand, getting 1000s of people to switch across to WhatsApp ( or does FB own that now as well??) would be a mighty task.

I would certainly prefer a “political neutral” chat program for the game but it must (a) not impair or slow the game processing down (good luck making that happen) and (b) be usable in game ie. not having to jump across apps or run 2 devices at once. If GI can achieve these things, which would highly surprise me, then having it all bundled together has to be a better idea for the majority of players. If it works, embrace it. If it doesn’t, then we won’t really be surprised  and old methods will prevail.