I do agree with not making it free. When I first started playing this game I thought it was the most retarded thing to have to use an item up to talk. Now I realize the great side effect of limiting the spam.

It's cool how you can talk freely in your alliance chat. I'm glad they did that. Very rarely do I go out to the world chat anyway. I mean it scrolls so fast, imagine if people could speak freely? That little chatbox would make sure nobody gets answered. You always have that one tool that just says, "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" for 1000 lines.