☎ Why dont you use ingame voice chat in PUGs?

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i assume they talk same way they type stuff that i ignore. so for the most part no thanks

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I would, but I haven’t tried, and I don’t know how it would work.

(I have real anxiety about doing things for the first time. Sometimes it seems too stressful to even try. I know this is silly, but I protect myself from anxiety wherever I can!)

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When I raided in Wrath, and Cata our raidleader actually muted everyone but him, the GM of the guild, and the tanks. It made for a peaceful raid, we all did our jobs. They gave us ample time if we had questions, but we were a pretty solid guild.

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105

I generally don’t mind it but I will admit the more time goes by, the less likely I am to do it. There is just too much screaming and profanity. I don’t mind crude language but when every other word is either derogatory or just plain cussing, it gets too obnoxious to have it in my ear.

Sometimes it’s also the drama. 10 minute long talks about what she/he said about something I or most of the other people around know nothing about. Save it for Facebook. ( Same reason I don’t use Facebook.)

As far as kids in the background, that never bothered me.

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I personally don’t use any of them. There’s no reason for me to since I do no group content beyond LFD/LFR. :rainbow:

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This one :point_up:️

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108

Could be implemented better.
People, legitimately, don’t understand how the in-game voice chat works.
It is anything but intuitive.
People don’t understand;

  • How to join.
  • What/where the settings are.
  • What actions ( in game) cause you to leave a channel
  • What channel people are currently using.

Not talking is fine.
Not everyone has a mic. Not everyone wants to talk.
You can mute people you don’t want to hear. Simple fact: Not everyone is worth listening to.

But hardly any players you come across while Pugging will ever join the in-game voice channels in an attempt to listen/ communicate.

I went through ~20 Arenas and 3 M+ with various PuGs sitting in the voice channel, all alone.
This was just my little " I wonder if anyone even uses this" moment concerning voice chat. I honestly didn’t expect anyone to join me and aligning with those expectations, no one did.

Non-communication (even when proper tools to communicate exist) is widely accepted in PuGs.
Players in PuGs don’t use voice chat.
Because players in PuGs have likely never used voice chat.

Players that do use voice chat.
Probably have long used and are comfortable with some other application.
And therefor don’t use the in-game voice chat.

That ingrained behavior isn’t going to change overnight.

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109

Because I barely feel like typing to randoms, let alone talk to them.
I only use voice chats with close friends.

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I wonder though if it might be really helpful and fun in Wpvp groups where some coordination could be beneficial. I just haven’t tried it

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I’ll leave a lasting impression that makes you come back, I promise… … My dps charts, duh.

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I know it’s there, I just have no clue how to use it.

My guild uses Twitch ( Twitch! Holy Moley! ) for their raids, but I don’t raid with them any more ( Thank. Heavens! Twitch! Seriously! ).

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Was part of a group at the end of MoP that was using, the now defunct, Razer Coms for voice … that was a strange experience.

Even more so, considering Discord came along with a similar (better?) set of features after the fact and took things by storm.

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I have discord, most people tell me a disc

and for dungeon/lfr pugs why the hell would I need to

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115

I mostly have my mic muted

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It’s a combination of:

  1. It’s Blizzard voice chat. The new version may be better, but many people remember the first attempt.
    B) It’s a PUG. People don’t want to talk in PUGs, or take the time to fiddle with buggy voice chat. (See 1. It may not be bad, but many people probably expect it to be.)
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you think i want some stranger i don’t know yelling at me in a PUG or telling me I suck and all this abusive stuff no thanks

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2 reasons.

  1. I don’t really want to talk to you anyway. Which I won’t have to worry about since I don’t pug, so question is moot there.
  2. I don’t really want Blizzard to listen in on what I’m saying. Which could be viewed as tin hat worthy, but… there you go.
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119

All of the above, and this…

The average ‘ingame chat’ never has a chance of being useful, especially in raids. There is always a plethora of infantile potty mouths who think they are clever and worldly and have no indoor voice.

My sanity and hearing are impaired enough, thank you.

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I just forget it exists.

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I will never use the WoW voice chat because push-to-talk is not mandatory and there are no strong penalties for being purposely annoying.

I would be ok with them defaulting you into using it, but if I have to listen to someone hork down Cheetos once, I’m out forever. Incidentally, this is why my voice chat is turned off in WoW. I tried using it. Someone was eating without push to talk. I turned it off forever.

People who cue in to do things like burp should get banned from the game. Voice chat is infinity times more important in Overwatch than in WoW, but I will leave instantly if someone does this. I also report them for Spam and Gameplay Sabotage.