I agree. The endless forest's trademark, in my opinion, is its disconnection from humanity and lack of chat boxes. In the forest, it works with your imagination and your interpretative skills to try and understand the gestures of the other deer. Some deer use the same gestures you do, but to them it means something different. It's like creating a language.

Chat boxes have a rather long history of filter issues as well as people abusing them with spam, rude comments, and trolling. A good example of this would be feral hearts. Without the chat boxes, players would be wolves or lions of different shapes, sizes, and colors, interacting with one another and racing around. With the chat box there is clear communication, but..... it's a more desperate form. People begging for mates, trying to take over areas of the map and claim them when it's open world or creating vulgar chat sessions describing explicit actions eventually even took over the game. it's hard to find decent people there, and I left because of the poor community.

What we've created WITHOUT the chatbox however, is a community of individuals who grow to understand each other. People are putting more time into their characters, and I've barely ever seen anyone get into an actual aggressive fight in the forest. (( out of character wise. Even in character it's rare for me to see it))

However, if you would like a chat client to speak with other people on a microphone or in a chat box, I would suggest getting team speak 3. It's easy to set up and create a server which you can password protect should an unwanted guest join.

the human language lacks of many things and it's open to misunderstandings, many times leads to hurtful words and things like that.
curious as it sounds, the deer's language doesn't .
it's universal
the language of love
here's an example
*nuzzles*

Back when I was still new-ish to the game back in 2011, I wished the same thing as you. I was frustrated at the fact that I could not communicate with others by text or chat. Sometimes I still have a brief frustration from it, but I have also realized that the chatroom would possiblhy make the game less worth it and unique and beautiful as it is. I mean, the game itself is drama-free. There is no cussing or innopropriot usernames of people being trolled in the game BECAUSE there are no chatrooms and the beautiful thing that they made (pictos) to replace usernames flying over the characters in the gamee. I think the fact that we use pictograph signs and body languege in replacement of text and usernames is beautiful and I actually hope they never add chatrooms, now XD

This game was meant to be a sort of moving painting when it was made. I won't get into it, it's better to learn for yourself ^^ If you want a chat in game, I suggest moving to a game like Feral Heart.