i know theres already a feature for it but i never see anyone use it, i think i may have heard one guy use vc in orgrimmar once but im not sure if i was dreaming or not, so why is no one using it ever ?
Because Discord and vent exist?
I use it with my friends all the time
I think most people are afraid to be placed in an environment where they can be subject to more personal beratement. WoW can be a toxic game where nobody is held accountable for their actions. There is no incentive to be nice and no form of reprimand for being mean.
just feels clunky to use when you can link a discord
discord is just superior and has more features, communities already established, works for any game.
in-game voice is completely useless in this discord era.
*why use 20 different voice thingies for 20 different games when you can safely assume everyone has discord ?
I like the in-game voice chat (as much as Discord, anyway), but other people don’t for some reason. It’s really easy to use and connect to.
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Voice Chat in game was dead on arrival (and on reboot) for like… 5 reasons:
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This is a PC game in a genre where people have been used to communicating purely via text chat for like… decades. I’m talking average players, obviously organized groups pushing harder content have used voice since it became more widely available. Anyway, trying to change what the average player considers “normal” will always be hard, no matter what the change is. MMOs, WoW included, just don’t have communities that are huge on voice chat if you’re not pushing into harder content that demands it.
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This is a PC game. A computer is not a console. It doesn’t come in a box with a controller and headset and maybe a couple games. It’s a computer. Peripherals are extra. And outside of a keyboard/mouse, most people won’t bother. Webcam? Not needed. Headset/Microphone? Not needed. I don’t think it’s weird that people without mics don’t have much desire to participate in voice chat. This one doesn’t really apply to laptops, for obvious reasons.
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Back in I think TBC, Blizzard TRIED adding voice chat. If they had done it well, we may be having a different conversation right now. It was early enough where it MIGHT have actually been used, at least in certain scenarios. But the botched it. Hard. It was pure garbage in comparison to external competition, so the convenience of it being in-game didn’t matter. It sat there unused forever, because it was trash, kinda like the Guild Finder tool. This stigma is still around even today, to some extent. Certainly didn’t help the reboot.
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Discord exists. Like I said, if it came and worked well in TBC, it may have stuck. But it didn’t. It showed up after Discord. And Discord made voice chat freely available to anyone - unlike the predecessors (Vent, Teamspeak, Mumble, etc). And you aren’t sacrificing quality in using it over those other options. It just works, and was already established as the norm when Blizz finally revamped Voice Chat. Too late. This time, Blizzard’s version is actually decent. Voice quality is honestly comparable to any other alternative. But people already have their Discord servers, so Discord it is.
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People don’t like strangers. As someone who mostly got into online gaming via Xbox Live, I know this. At first, Voice Chat was on by default, everyone had a mic [because the console comes with it], and most people talked. Hell, in Halo 2, you could even talk to the OTHER team during the game, if they were nearby. That was a great time. People trash talked just like anywhere else, but the sheer activity was awesome. You got to meet people, not just shoot things next to “people” that may as well be bots. Then Microsoft added “Party Chat”, which let you sit in private voice chats with your friends while not being in the same lobby or game. And then Xbox Live voice chat instantly died. No one talked to anyone they didn’t already know anymore. It’s still like that, for the most part. It makes me very sad. But ultimately, that’s the point - people largely don’t talk to strangers unless they have to.
Personally, I would love to actually talk to people via voice in-game. It’s more convenient for people without 2 monitors, and it would promote actually talking while playing - since you can’t really type and fight at the same time.
But people don’t want to.
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You were. You have to opt in and it’s not based on area, it’s based on guild or group.
Early reports said it lagged the game. Also, discord was already widely used, so people just continued using that.
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A lot of people see what you type, so they can simply imagine the wonderful things you might say… directly into their precious ears.
i dont use voice with randoms only me guildies
discord has superior sound and functionality
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