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Discussion: Team Chat Feature
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@LoFiGummy I was very saddened to see our team chat go only to see "News" which serves no purpose at all. This is a very poor replacement for our team chat, and will upset many players. I speak from a team from which many members are NOT in the Community and therefore will feel cut off and isolated. This will affect their general team experience, possibly Soda in general in the way of playing.
I feel this is a very negative move by the Studio.
Personally the "chat" feature meant inclusion and a way to support others, now I feel the whole team thing has lost that connectivity. It has mattered to me as I am sure it will to others.
If others have prompted this change via unkind remarks I understand. However I feel it unfair to judge and punish innocent players.
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exactly! I’m like come on! I sure miss chatting to my team members. It was an awesome feature. Hope they reconsider.
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Hi @LoFiGummy
I haven’t played soda since my 🆔 had changed on all my games.
I really don’t understand why the game creators (studio) would even think that taking the chat ability away is a good thing.The team chat really helps team players communicate with each other and help teammates know that there not alone.
Very disappointing for soda 🥤 players.😢
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@steventseng our soda team chat is removed and replaced with news.
I'm also feel that team chat is better than news.
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baking the cake is a team activity.. now it seems as a solo activity. Our team is pretty good but we also chat to encourage other team members to help out! Bring back the chat. Plz and thank you
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Thanks for the tag @MollyS! 🙂
Hi @LoFiGummy
With due respect, what is it about the team "chat' feature of this game that is deemed necessary to be removed at this time? Why is the previous right to disable this feature when the House Rules not observed sufficient? What is the motivation behind this move?
It's really a head scratching decision.
Does it have anything to do with our community's consistently decreasing members and/or participants? Is it to encourage players to join? Because other than this, what could possibly be the reason?
The chat feature serves no detriment to the game, the players or the company. It's actually one of the basic and core feature of this game. It's also a means to reach out to team members. Whether to appreciate one's effort in baking the cake, a reminder to do so, or just plain conversation of support or anything a member needs. Why is this change now necessary when it was working very well for the players?
Your reasons you provided need further explanation and clarity.
1.) The "chat" function in teams was recently changed to "news" as a part of an initiative to ensure that all features in Soda follows an accessibility standard (in short terms, to make it as accessible for all types of players).
What does this exactly mean? So the "chat" feature according to you hampers or impedes some if not all the abilities of Soda's features to make it accessible to all types of players? How and it what sense?
2.) I hope that you can connect outside of the game like here on the forum to continue bonding as a team when you're not playing.
As I mentioned above, if this is the main reason for the removal of the chat, how you can expect our team members to join our community? I have been in the same team for a very long time and I'm the only one here. Removing this feature is not enough reason to join.
3.) You should still have some functionality in the news tab to be able to help your teammates and get updates on the team.
What functionality are you referring to and how are we able to help our teammates though it? What updates and who is going to give them?
A harmless game feature working well and appreciated by many should not have been removed. Please reconsider! I don't think it would be hard to enable this feature again.
Thanks!
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Thank you for the tag @MollyS, I was looking for answers to this question myself.
As others have mentioned, I find this decision to be VERY bad. First we loose our ability to direct message team members on this forum and now you remove our ability to communicate with team members in the game? Like others, I don't care about "News". I don't need a notification that someone baked a piece of cake. I can see who baked or not in the actual cake itself by tapping on the "Top Chefs".
I've been on my team for quite some time now. Some members have been with us for some time and others are new. In fact, we got a new player just this week. Normally we welcome the member. However, this time we can't even do that. Feels so closed off now. We also used to communicate rules for the team which we can no longer do.
@LoFiGummy, you say to connect outside the game like here on the forum. As others have mentioned, not all players use this forum. Furthermore, not everyone uses the same name in the game as they do here. In the game, I'm connected via my FaceBook account so it shows my real name. I use an alias here. So how are my team members going to find me? We can't direct message anymore so that means we have to create a public post for everyone to see even outside the team. It will then get lost in the thousands of post by everyone else. So how are we to communicate with our team members if we can't even find each other here? Are we to create a new post everyday with our team name and pray others happen to stumble across it?
Luckily some of us have connected through FaceBook so we can communicate there. Basically what I am seeing here is that you want us to communicate outside the Kingdom now (or you want us to broadcast all of our business for everyone to see).
Of all the changes that have come across the game, I find this one to be the worse. So many things I could of done without in this game. This is NOT one of them.
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Dear Donna, do you want to say this is related to national security?🤔
Let me clarify something to you two.
The name of the Chat column is replaced by News, but this is not the function of News replaced the chat function. It was news+chat function before, now it has news function only. The chat function is removed. There has an option to decide whether activating the chat function or not in the team settings if you are playing a Soda version before 1.284. We are deprived of the rights to choose by the Studio.
We want the chat function back only. Please do not criticise the news function. You think it is useless because you don't know how to use it. If you have promoted to next level, control the baking data by yourself, you will know this is a critical function too. You need this news function not only when you are controlling the baking data, but also it can let you analysis a team easily when you move to a new team and then recall all messages of that team.
Removing the high score leaderboard of every level was a nightmare in 2024. This is the first nightmare in 2025.
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I came here to find out where my ream chat went, and now I know. Boo. Hiss!
Please bring it back; it’s the only way we get to know our team members at all!!
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Also, I am well past level 7500; I dot know why this community page has me on level 1! And I’ve been playing since 2011
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