Something I thought of watching the Q & A today…
Will voice chat be integrated into Classic? If I understand correctly other B(dot)net chat functionality is being integrated, and voice chat is part of that.
Just wondering if this has been answered or not yet.
Has not yet been answered.
If you’re using Blizzard’s voice chat in game service, you’re doing it wrong.
If you want voice chat, stick with retail.
battlenet voice chat is completely separate from every game. I can call my friend on bnet and play league of legends if I want to. So technically yes, this will be in classic. If you mean voice chat as in what they had in late wrath(?) or cata (?) then no that won’t be considering that system isn’t even in the game anymore is it?
It is extremely likely that it will be included (since it’s part of battle.net integration) and that no one will use it (since it’s terrible).
team speak trolling was an integral part of the classic experience that we can not simulate anymore ![:cry:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/cry.png?v=6" ":cry:")
Vanilla had Ventrillo. Now we have Discord. If you’re using the onboard Blizz VC option instead of Disord or Team Speak, you’re most definitely doing it wrong.
don’t forget the guy playing WoW with his mic always on with early 2000s trap/electric music in the background.
Nah the best was when people had their home computers in the kitchen and you got to hear the whole family having pillow fights with dishes.
The in game voice chat now is on par with discord. Yall are just thinking about the voice chat that came with patch 2.2.
Holy F was it really THAT early? I remember using it when it first came out and it was trash even compared to vent/TS2 but jesus I didn’t think it was that early. Woah.
Last time I checked (which was at the launch of BFA), it still had fewer options and generally less control over it.
Plus, the very concept of ‘join voice chat with randoms that a game queued me with’ is horrible and any implementation of it is automatically bad. WoW’s voice chat does not offer me a ‘completely disable forever’ option, and therefore it is bad.
Does anyone use in-game voice chat?
Does anyone?
I mean, probably there are a few that use it. Not a lot, but a few.
Anyway, my point in asking is because Ion said during the Q&A (iirc) that one of the reasons for why voice chat exists is if you’re doing something, like say a M+ PUG, and you need to coordinate something via voice chat you have a tool that can do that without having to go through the rigmarole of downloading and setting up a 3rd party app just to do some content with some people that you will probably never play with again.
I personally don’t use it now, and probably won’t in Classic either. But I’m just wondering and bringing the topic up for discussion to see what others think, specifically, will it affect game play? Or is it just a modern QoL change that basically exists outside the game and will have little, if any, effect on the game itself?
Anyway, here are my thoughts:
We coordinated with voice back in Vanilla anyway through Vent or TS or whatever, so on the one hand it’s not like an in-game voice chat system is really going to change anything substantially because we used Vent/TS anyway.
On the other hand though the system didn’t exist in Vanilla and the experience was shaped by this system not existing. But then again, if very few people even use it does it really make much a difference if it’s in there or not?
I don’t really have firm feelings one way or the other since I will probably never use it personally. But just figured I would bring it up.