Disable Voice chat

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I want to disable voice chat completely. I am getting lag and cursor spinning because of it.

Lost connection to voice chat service
Restored connection to voice chat service.

I want it gone completely. It is totally useless! I have disabled it it parental control. This is just a bad add-on that is not needed…at all.

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Yes this… this is worth being outraged over.

Yes.

:+1:

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Honestly, I wish more of the WoW community would adopt the built-in voice chat service.

I find it a lot easier to connect to strangers I’m playing with if I can hear their voice, and speak to them with my own.

Sadly a lot of the WoW old timers refuse to use it for no reason beyond that they prefer familiarity.

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The only way to disable Voice Chat is to enable Parental Controls on your account and use that to prevent access.

I lot of the WOW community has made it so that I don’t want to interact with strangers in the game very often. Sure not everyone is a toxic person but there are enough out there that it is a problem.

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My guild only uses it for PUG raids, otherwise use we the built in battle.net voice chat as it works much better than the built in one in game. The one in game is rather annoying an painful.

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It’s rare that I run into toxic players these days, and I do quite a few battlegrounds.

The WoW community is one of the oldest gaming communities out there. Not using the feature at all just because there are a few bad eggs in the bunch means that you’re missing out on a lot of potential meaningful interactions.

How do you find the in-game one painful? I can understand that it may be annoying with people dropping out of the group for whatever reason and not being able to speak to them, but you could just use the guild voice chat or a community channel.

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  • Hot plugging mics requires full game restart
  • Not very stable
  • Hard to access with UI replacement mods such as ElvUI
  • Settings get frequently reset at patches
  • Doesn’t seem to keep audio and level settings between uses.
  • No moderation control

Updates:

  • Tied to being logged in on a character, preventing hot switching characters or reforming groups
  • No associated persistent channels or tools for sharing information (even the battle.net groups has this).
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It just disables it, the thing keeps running in the background.

Since that stuff was implemented, the lag i get is terrible, considering my internet connection has already huge packet loss on top of that one, sometimes i play constantly at 2-3k ms for hours.

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Geez, you’re right. Those are pretty basic things to ask for, too.

Hopefully they improve the feature!

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That’s not even the kicker. The kicker is it’s tied to WoW. Fundamentally many guilds play multiple games, having a single discord etc. means they can use the same single interface for all those games without having to learn a new system.

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That makes sense, but don’t think the in-game voice chat is meant to replace 3rd party programs like Discord, but instead provide a quick and readily available solution that PUGs can use.

I’ve literally only used it in PUG M+ runs, and it has saved so much time.

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Honestly this is why I prefer discord so much, I can be sitting doing a quick m+ pug to all of a sudden hear of of my friends shout “REIN ONE REIN ONE” not realizing he hit the wrong PTT key. When things like this happen randomly in the middle of conversations, personally I find it amusing. More from a use standpoint, my druid is GM of its guild, and I lead a crossrealm raid group, having discord to communicate makes our group possible, as it gives me a way to contact and communicate with my raiders, even if people are in different guilds (got a few that just decided they don’t like communities)

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Oh I’m aware, but it runs into the next best system issue. When a majority of players are used to and use a better external system; the expectation within the player base will be very quickly that most if not all players are familiar and capable of using it. In other words, for the majority of players the mental dissonance to use it overwhelms any utility it might provide.

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I don’t use it because we already use discord. And we use discord cause we can keep talking while outside the game.

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Ultimately, it would great if we could associate our battlenet tags with our discord accounts, and discord could detect the accounts of the people in our group to create a sort-of temporary server we could use that expires once the group is finished.

I’ve seen other games (mostly MOBAS) who have something like this that worked well. But I don’t think Blizzard would allow that sort of tech to be possible.

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IIRC you can already link your btag with your discord account. So the linking tech atleast is already there.
Edit: just checked, you can link btag to discord

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Bottom line for me is that Discord is just a better system. Now I rarely pugs stuff anymore, so to be honest I have no real use for the in game system. But I just see their system as being to little to late. Just that fact that if you’re dropped from the game you’ll be dropped form the voice chat is enough of downside for me not to use it.

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Meh I refuse to use it because I don’t want to talk to the collective “you”

If you want to do content with me get on my Discord. To be fair, this means you are a pug we picked up to help fill out our raid, and we will require the use of Discord anyway

I do plusses only with the guild, and anytime we do have to pug a spot out it is either a key that requires no or little communication, or we will require Discord before we start.

And if it is a BG I have to assume you know how to watch your chat windows. Fairly certain you can understand why I would not want to be in chat anyway with random BG players.

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I have no problem with that. In fact you are probably right. Just please give me the option :slight_smile:

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TBH even for pugging I prefer and seek out groups using discord, it makes it so much cleaner. Never been in a group using In-game voice