[Ryu-Kazuki]

I understand that, but if you got into an IC conflict of some kind, it's pretty annoying to go, "Hey we have to go take this... somewhere else because the icons look like shit on the PvP map". That's basically the point. So a villain is forced to drag the player to another map if they're attacking them, or if people get into a heated battle or something, you're pretty forced to be taken elsewhere, that's one of the reasons people don't want to stick around on the world map / PvP on it.

This being said, shout and whisper would also have to have shortened range as well to compensate. Otherwise say's going to be really short, and the other two's ranges will be too ridiculous in comparison.