Push. To. Talk

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In my guilds, this was basically a solved problem in 2004-2005. Since the nuisance scales with group size and we were running 40 person raids, we 1) trained everyone to use push to talk, and 2) forcibly muted anyone who didn’t have the sense to know when to talk and when not to. We were nice people but we did not beat around the bush - you’d be told to shut the funk up if you were annoying what was essentially a giant virtual room of people.

Unfortunately, a lot of people have given up or never learned in the first place, so I’m on many fewer voice calls as a result. I can’t tolerate more than one or two people randomly transmitting god-knows-what.

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The reason I don’t join Discords is because I’m not gonna put up with a mediocre chip-chewing cretin just for the chance at an okay run despite performance not because of it (using communication to bridge that gap)

And I will tell everyone I meet that. It’s one of the few things I’ll be mean about while gaming.

You chew and I can hear it and I will make you feel very, very small.

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My favorite part about Push to Talk are the people that routinely dont time it right. So you get the first word and last word clipped. And you just sorta have to guess.

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Yeah, they tend to be delusional and typically come back with something about how THEY know how to fix it unlike everyone else who screws it up.

Same, although not too many tears about it.

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Always that guy, food just got placed, people running back, suddenly ‘ping hold on let me hit this real fast proceeds to keep button held down’

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OP should try raid leading with Push to talk while tanking.

I understand he just join discord to hang out and don’t do anything serious.
Serious gamers simply laugh at you at the thought that you’re asking them to use PTT.

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Fellas does anyone else think it’s sexist when people tell me it’s gross to burp in voice chat :dracthyr_lulmao:

I used to play with this guy who would purposely press his push to talk just to burp into voice chat. :face_vomiting:

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The best is when their mom would come in and yell at them

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I have an app that sets my discord to “always talk” which plays back things I said previously even when I’m not talking so everyone listening just hears a constant stream of me talking along with loud background noise that makes it sound like I am always playing pinball.

The app has a few bugs though, all I can ever hear anyone say is “What??” and then I get randomly kicked from guild, soon as that gets fixed it will be perfect.

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I have a button on my mouse below the scroll wheel that I use as my push to talk key

Picture of my mouse:

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Don’t have that available outside wow. I have browser page up/down buttons but they’re bound to stuff in ESO and I can’t use them for ptt there.

Rather than set up things every time I switch game…

Yeah.

I mostly play around 3 am. It’s very quiet and my noise canceling covers background stuff like normal breathing or the accidental fart when I bend over to pet the cat.

How do I know this? Because there’s folks I KNOW for a fact would never let me live it down if they heard it.

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That’s a good song though

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