Hey GiGaGekkies, thanks for your suggestion and sorry about the delay.
We think consistency is the most important thing here and we'd want to make the changes based on whats present in most other games.
As mentioned here:
Chatting in pre-game got removed several years ago because of the people spamming "OP PLZ" to ranked players. I would like if this can get tested to see if people still do spam ranked players. And if they don't, it might be cool to keep it.
in 2015 there was huge spam in chats for overpowered modes in specifically SkyWars & EggWars as those modes were incredibly popular and were the only modes that featured voting. Even these days they are still the most popular voting options specifically in that gamemode.
Which is why-
Makes sense... But why do we still have chats pre-game for Minerware and Tower Defense (possibly other games too, not sure)? because those games have voting options too. And people ask for double coins pretty much always in TD as well.
-these games do not have this chat limitation. Because their voting options are not as popular, the purpose of the chat disable was to reduce not remove. SW/EW had 60% of the game spamming at the same time at it's peak before it was added.
For this reason we believe adding /msg to SW/EW is the better idea as it still reduces the bulk of players from asking for OP because it's much easier to write "vote op" in chat and press enter than it is to type out a command & a username.
Keep in mind that it's possible this suggestion could flip the other way and we disable /msg in all three modes. But regardless some form of consistency will be applied between the three.
~ Marked as planned. :]