Im tired of using extra apps, like Ventrillio, Hot Topic, Discord, ETC. WOW already has a microphone option that would be ideal to use just needs a few upgrades. If in fact you look into this because there is a GUILD CHAT already WOW. Trade chat Microphone? General Chat microphone, whisper friends microphone like a voicemail?
Tried WoW’s voice chat, lag ensued. It probably has improved since then, but first impressions are everything.
Edit: Play an MMO on console, most of them are voice chat only. The chaos that exists…
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Trade chat mic would quite possibly be the worst thing in the history of the internet.
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It’s not only what you can do ingame that attracts people to discord (saying this one cause free and the most popular nowadays), it’s what you can also do outside of it. Screen sharing, text, voice chat for other games. WoW isn’t the only game my guild plays, far from it.
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this and its nice to be able to just chat with a few friends on those nights you are all in like 20 different games maybe doing some of the more boring or repetitive content in them or to ask eachother for advice
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Why would Blizzard expand upon or improve their in-game voice system when there are third-party apps that do it for them (and likely better)?
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All of this exists… We’ve used nothing but Battlenet/In-game voice chat for over 2 years after finally shutting down our ventrilo server after 10+ years since it’s voice quality far far surpasses that of Discord, there’s no memory hog app, and it’s not owned by TenCent. Pretty easy decision.
Quick Edit: If you don’t, your guild should have a guild community outside of the wow guild one, that way you can use it while you play other games. Functions the exact same way you just join through the app.
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Few upgrades? It sounds like fried bumholes. Also I’m simply never joining a voice chat channel that isn’t either my friends or my guild. And we use Discord for that.
Your refusal to use Discord is your problem, I don’t complain that everyone isn’t using the same guitar strings that I do.
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I’m not changing what my guild uses just because you are unhappy OP.
Blizzard was the first major game to actually release an in-game voice chat. The problem was they used terribly low bitrates their first go around, so it sounded like everyone was in a trash can. Ironically, the one chat program that everybody uses now, uses the same low bit-rate that Blizzard did, we just have better codecs now than we did in 2006, so it sounds marginally better. Blizzard definitely got it right their second time with Battle.net voice, it’s wonderful.
There is more to Discord then just voice…
Also who in the hell uses vent in 2020
Hmmnm no it’s not 8kps the default is 64Kps on discord
except wow’s voice chat is a steaming pile of crap
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Tencent has a 5% stake in ActiBlizz. Just like Tencent is an invester in Discord. They are not owned by Tencent.
Discord is banned in China.
Blizzard’s original chat released in 2007 used 64 kbps, Discord’s default currently. The current version of wow voice chat uses significantly higher than that, feels like 256 personally, but could be 320, either way, it’s significantly better sounding than Discord.
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Might need to get your ears checked
The first iteration of WoW voice chat was super buggy too, with connection troubles, people’s mics not getting picked up, etc.
It’s improved dramatically since then but I think it being bad early on really soured people on the idea.
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Problem with the chat in wow is it only works with people in the game. I talk friends in Discord that are playing various games.
Voice chat in WoW will always be a very limited used feature.
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You might want to get yours checked if you think Discord is an acceptable VoIP solution in today’s age. It’s fine for text chat/image sharing if you don’t mind the privacy concerns/constant outages for free, but it is not an acceptable solution for VoIP against a high bitrate voice app, sorry to tell you this.
idk man Discord’s VOIP audio clarity is amazing. Not sure what you’re on about.
I’ve not had an outage for months
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