Is it not possible to whisper to people on your friends list? Am I missing something? I see chat rooms but this seems like a horribly inefficient means of communicating with people on your friends list. I don’t understand how all of the menus/browsers outside of actual gameplay seem broken and less efficient than legacy.
I love this game and am grateful for DE, but in some ways it has become harder to enjoy.
Didnt find a private message option…i do not thing this is implemented in the game. Hope this is coming since this was in aoe3 the best way to make “friends” to play with 
Yep
-> Show when friends are online by a green light, and red when they are offline
-> being able to privat message them
Steam client & xbox social features basically replaces other legacy chatting features as back then there was no universal platforms.
You can go in the chat lobby and write /w NAME msg
That’s useless cause u can’t add someone’s steam account on the game, u literally just add his DE.
If there’s a friendlist, but u can’t see if they’re here or even text them, what is it for ? 