Sounds interesting idea. But must have a mute button so only those that want it can hear it.
Depends on how it would work. If you would need to have a headset operative to hear, with an option to turn it off, that would be fine. If it came through the game environmental sound systems then no unless again if you could have an option to turn it off.
The main problem would be the bad language issue. Reporting players for offensive language relies on text chat. Not sure how it would work given the potty mouth of so many people nowadys.
On the whole, I doubt Blizzard would do it. It would be just too difficult to manage and to much to expect people not to abuse it.
YeahâŚno. Worse idea of 2025. Most players dont have a mic turned on actively to begin with. I make sure mine is off when not in use.
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How long would they keep our conversations recorded?
If I run by someone who dropped a hard R and I report it how do they prove it?
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When I think of WoW, I want to think of hearing someone vacuuming their carpet while a baby is crying on a $20 microphone from Wal-Mart.
Miss me with that.
I wish muting an avatar additionally killed entire threads started by that avatar.
I would have to visit Goldshire if something like this was out into the game. Omg it would be bad lmao.
Gotta agree with this one⌠say & party chat is fine for RP / Non-RP social interaction. Serious RPers might jump in a Discord for less immersion breaking if they canât type 40 words/min. Serious PvE/PvP players might jump in Discord to coordinate interrupts, attack, priority targets, etc.
I donât see much value in making this broadcast with everyone talking over everyone else.
Does anybody even use the ingame voice chat?
I miss when they first added it to WoW. Me and some friends would sing Journey Donât stop believing when people would turn it on. Sorry guys, our horrible singing ruined it for everyone.
Iâm willing to bet that 90% of WoWâs current playerbase doesnât even know the ingame voice chat exists.
Nope, and why would you with everything Discord can do on top of superior voice chat.
And the 10 that do are using discord anyway.
nobody wants you eavesdropping on them in a tavern irl, and if youâre in someoneâs face, there will be consequences irl.
Thatâs why your idea is half-baked.
I do, in fact. And âfun factâ, Blizz recently added a voice chat option to the launcher as well, as my friend discovered last week when she called me on it.
My friend had an old mac that could run WoW and nothing else could run at the same time, so we resorted to voice chat. Except the times when itâs bugged out to heck and back for months, we still use it. Works pretty decently, in fact.
It honestly doesnât suck at all.
Voice Quality is comparable to Discord last I used it.
The only reason its not used is because Discord was already entrenched as the standard for WoW Voice Comms before Blizzard got around to updating it (because yes, the original one they tried in TBC or whatever was hot garbage).
Obviously Discord is also better for long-term groups and guilds, but in the context of pugs, in-game voice is completely fine. Itâs not bad. People just donât use it.
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OMG, Goldshire Inn on Moonguard
/shutter
Correction: /shudder
But think of all the missed free entertainment!
I think you mean âshudderâ, but putting closed shutters on the Inn is certainly recommendedâŚ
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Blizzard keeps trying to catch up but discord does so much already and is free, and available everywhere with an internet access.