Communication
Activities concept
Any tags relating to communication between players, player characters or possibly even with NPCs.
Alternate name: Social
This is a container group; its children are:
| Text chat | Provides a chat interface for interaction with other players. (too short) | 1973 / 2013 | 11 games |
| Emotes | Player can perform emotes. Point at things, laugh, hop, cry, etc. Things that by themselves do little, but prompt others to respond, are responses themselves or aid verbal or other cues. | 2002 / 2019 | 19 games |
| Player has access to mail service, either for sending and receiving textual messages or actual in-game items like in postal service. Commonly exists for communication between players who aren't on-line at the same time. | 2004 / 2009 | 4 games | |
| Social network service | Includes internal social network service(s), allowing at the very least easy communication with friends (even outside of games). | 2006 / 2016 | 48 games |
| Social networks | Any third-party social networks supported internally by games. (too short) | container group | |
| Text macros | Has quick to use shortcuts for various pieces of text to send in-game, possibly customizable. (too short) | 3 games | |
| Voice chat | Has integrated voice chat functionality. (too short) | 2004 / 2020 | 167 games |
| Voice macros | Simple pre-defined voice overs that may or may not be actual commands. Commonly exist in place of or as supplementary to text chat, voice chat, and text macros. | 2005 / 2016 | 18 games |