Im having a fun time, reading you and Lux’s conversation.
I don’t want to listen to a bunch of dude-bros put on their coolest voice to try to spit game at the one chick in the chat room
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Trying to pick up women in a video game voice chat is both desperate and lol at the same time.
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It’s something to do with that annoying, little button that starts glowing every time I join a WB group.
Stop with the glowing buttons Blizzard! I’m not gonna click them!
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Because I don’t want to listen to some dickhead’s dog/baby/girlfriend/parents because they can’t be bothered to set a push to talk. Same reason I won’t join a random discord unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Scared the crap out me, then had a racist teenager who thought it was cool I guess and got sick listening to some else eating. click all done.
I developed significant hearing trouble when I was a child. I was deaf for about a decade. Modern technology allows me to hear but it just doesn’t jive well with me being able to hear myself talk. There was a guy I played warhammer online with that had the same issues.
I have to be really, and I do mean really, comfortable with the people I’m gaming with because I sound tone deaf and just horrible when using those things. In warhammer online and ever quest I used vent because I knew those people for years. Mostly I just listened for raid instructions and such. When my husband and I raided in EQ he would help me a lot.
Not to mention most online are just horrible and crass these days. With having a disability and being a girl I just choose not to subject myself to the random unnecessary hatefulness that would come with using it.
I’m totally deaf, and use no voice chat.
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I’m going with this, never mind my anti social behavior
OMG - that was me! Why didn’t you help me? I lost a toe!!! A TOE!!!
Now who will go to the market. Sniff
I usually avoid voice chat, but I would love to be in a group when you pulled this on a rager. That’s hysterical!
With discord I can force Push to Talk.
I do not want to hear:
People eating or drinking
People smoking or vaping
Peoples pets or kids
People breathing
People mashing their keyboard
People making small talk in the background because they do not realize they are connected to a voice client.
I can kick/ban people from discord.
If you are a jerk it takes me 3 seconds to remove you from a discord server.
When the group is over I can stick them on ignore.
I think they should spend more time improving the game than a voice client when free clients are readily available.
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it didnt work well at first so i said f it.
guessing it’s the same for everyone else.
discord worked well and ingame didnt work for me, i saw their icons when they talked but couldnt hear them.
went back to discord and didn’t try again for a long while.
if you put voice in your game it better be at least on par with discord ; and work without troubleshooting.
*i tired it again recently and it worked though, but it was just too late, my ties to discord just grew stronger.
Because WoW doesn’t have the culture for it like other games do.
Back in the early xbox live days it was amazing to be able to talk to people online in games. And as crappy as the headset was, the fact that when you bought the xbox live starter kit it came with one, it really reinforced that you should be communicating with everyone.
In other words, it didn’t feel weird starting up a conversation in a team slayer match.
WoW didn’t have anything like that for years, despite existing at the same time, & when we finally got one it was really crappy and the ship had already sailed. People were already used to typing everything & while there were things like vent or teamspeak, those were typically things you used with friends not pugs.
I feel like if Blizzard had really nailed AND ENCOURAGED THE USE OF voice chat in the peak sub days, a lot of people would probably be using it… and the game would probably be better for it too.
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I actually tried it a few times when BfA was new during a few dungeon runs. Either no one was connected or a few were but nobody said anything.
I think we are in-grained to use Discord or w/e other third-party system we already use.
After a good many years of blissful and absolute silence I can agree with you that you normies are a very, very noisy lot. <3
It’s nice to be able to mute the world when I’ve had enough. My husband really appreciates me doing so when we’re in the middle of preparing thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. He knows I’ve had enough when I start signing. I don’t want to sound like I take hearing for granted because I most certainly don’t. I love being able to hear my kids, my husband most of the time <3, and my family. Sometimes the cacophony of the modern world is just too much for me.
Most people are just jerks. Why would I ever want to talk to them? I have a guild if I want to talk in-game, which I do with them.
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I don’t use it because it just generally isn’t used. Discord is where it’s at.
I think it could be used… because if you look at the evolution of what people use today, Discord completely overtook TeamSpeak and Ventrillo.
It could have gone to the wow voice chat. But there’s a bandwagon effect in place, and wow’s chat just didn’t beat the others to the punch.
They basically got to market too late and what they are offering isn’t sufficiently better than Discord to attract people to change.
I never enjoyed having to use voice chat to play video games, so I’m not going to do it in your PUG. Simple as that. Took me years before I opened my mouth in my guild’s Ventrilo, and I probably wouldn’t have done it if I wasn’t a tank.
quite honestly I don’t know how it works. Discord works well enough so I just use it instead.