comes down to matter of choice
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comes down to matter of choice
Which Tammya doesnt want people to have.
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If you took a moment to understand what I’m saying, it’s me who doesn’t have the choice here. I want to use voice chat. I can’t because it’s too hard to adopt by most players. You strictly do not want it on by default, so there’s no solution for me.
They didn’t tell it to make the call directly, yes, but it’s a problem with voice recognition, not a “bug.” Whatever they were saying had frequencies that were similar enough to “Alexa, make a call to xyz…right.”
Firstly, Blizzard voice chat isn’t going to forward your voice to someone’s telephone number.
Secondly, Blizzard’s voice chat isn’t enabled by voice signals.
So I do not see how this is relevant to privacy regarding Blizzard’s voice chat.
They didn’t tell it to make the call directly, yes, but it’s a problem with voice recognition, not a “bug.”
It was not told to make a call, it misheard a word and made a call without direct instruction.
You may not call it a bug…the customers did, Amazon did, the programmers did and the end result was a gross breach of privacy.
Amazon should be eternally glad they didnt have that happen here, the Privacy Commissioner would have shown them no mercy.
Our laws are…draconic.
Whatever they were saying had frequencies that were similar enough to “Alexa, make a call to xyz…right.”
Firstly, Blizzard voice chat isn’t going to forward your voice to someone’s telephone number
Dont care,. I dont want it having access to my mic. At all. For any reason…
Tammya…you are either being deliberately obtuse, are playing little games…or one other possibility i wont mention here.
Either way my patience with you is ended.
You want to use voice chat. Presumably, there are others who want to use voice chat. Players are not, in fact, stupid. If people aren’t using voice chat it’s because they don’t want to use it, not because it’s “too hard”.
If it were a matter of “too hard” or “performance issues”, no third-party voice chat, all of which require more effort to use than Blizzard’s chat, would ever have caught on.
You have a choice, You can use Blizzard’s in game chat to your heart’s content. Other players can use it. What you can’t do and should stop arguing for is requiring other players to use it to fulfill your wants.
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Okay, to satisfy this need, there should be an option to “disable” voice chat. I’m fine with that if it’s enabled and on by default. Everyone is happy?
I was in a heroic Uldir pug the other day, and we ended up joining Discord after two wipes of G’huun, then downed it. Why would they go through the trouble of inviting everyone to a random Discord server if the ingame voice is easy to use?
Simple reason is no one uses voice chat for queued content unless it is a bunch of guildies and then it is most likely discord.
Most voice chat is used in higher end content like Normal raids and higher and that again is usually discord
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No one uses it because they can’t. I would use it. I’m sure other people would use it, but we can’t. We can’t, because when we want to use it, everyone has it off by default, so it doesn’t work.
Okay, to satisfy this need, there should be an option to “disable” voice chat.
Funny thats not what you said five minutes ago…
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Because quite frankly, I think it’s a waste of everyone’s time to have a useless option like that. But if you really want it? It doesn’t hurt me if that option is available, or if you uninstall your voice chat, or if anyone uninstalls their voice chat, because I’m really confident that most would keep it on.
I wish there was a way to delete it from the game. Actually, it’d be nice if we could delete a lot of the game files. I have no need for BGs or Arenas, yet they’re taking up valuable space.
But if voice chat was on by default, I’d simply stop doing any group content. I don’t need to hear some sweaty moron yelling about how good he is (or how bad we are), or some muppet eating his dinner.
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When entering group content, and activating VC, none of this is fun to have your ears blown off to, since the only constant you can 100% rely on is people’s infinite ability at stupidity, it stays off.
Can’t != don’t.
With DIscord, people that have used it for the last couple of years will
already have all their voice rooms setup, and a lot of them will
come with permissions too, which help avoid any of the above mentioned scenarios.
Even if Blizz directly copied Discord in every way when it came to VC, most people are still going to stick to what they already have setup.
Unless all the other VOIP services die a sudden death, Blizz’s VC features are not likely to take off anytime soon.
Now can we get off this roundabout? 
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Hell no. I don’t want to hear what you or anyone you know has to say.
I’d rather the voice function be removed altogether.
Stick to in game chat.
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What you want to do is force people to listen to you. I’ve read through this entire thread and the way you ignore people’s points, refuse (or are unable) to respond to direct questions, and repeatedly dismiss other’s opinions remind me of someone I was involved with years ago. He turned out to be a violent psychopath who I literally had to run from and go into hiding. He would LOVE to be able to force people to listen to him.
This person spend years harassing me in game along with his little buddies. They would create level one characters and delete them immediately after sending nasty, offensive texts. Then Blizz gave us “right click report” and they were forced to start creating throw-away accounts with fake names so that when reported, it wasn’t connected to them. Thankfully, shortly after that, starter accounts had their chat privileges suspended. I’ve had blissfully SILENT years since then, as I can’t see anything they say. The very first thing I do on creating a new character is put the creep and his incel pals on ignore (yay for account ignore!)
YOU want to enable them to harass me the moment I step into Boralus or another zone they’re in, with no risk to them of retribution. Short of recording everything coming through my headset with a third-party program and taking it to the police, there would be no way of reporting them. In the several seconds it would take me to hit that “deafen” button you want, considerable damage could be done.
If you got what you want, and FORCED everyone to listen to you, I would immediately log out of game, uninstall, and (after 14 years of playing) walk away without looking back.
Thankfully, Blizzard will NEVER give you want you want.
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If you were to ever hear my voice you would wonder why you ever ask that question and be thankful that it is not
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Go and read everything again. Quite frankly, from the hostile nature of your post, I don’t think I’d want to talk to you, nor anyone who turns off voice for that matter. I didn’t dismiss anyone’s concerns. Everything was addressed. Nobody in this thread acknowledged that the voice system currently is completely useless and something needs to be done about it, all they seem to care about is their preference, and deleting the voice system outright.
Voice is on separate servers…you have lag issues?..that’s your ISP!!
Played PubG for a while… The automatic joining in said chat system will just be a bunch of trolls or really angry people… Everyone will be yelling China numba one, turn table sounds, or frequent for no reason moaning sounds.
When it first came out I would use it all the time. Now i rarely even think about it.
I’d rather not argue about you guys missing the point either, but I’ll reword it again here: the problem with voice chat right now is that it’s too hard to use.
Default-on would fix it, and allow everyone to be happy. It’s not forcing anyone to listen. If you don’t want to listen, turn it off. Only needs to be done once.
Default-off only makes you guys happy.
Just run the wow executable outside of the launcher.
Use the launcher once a week to get any patches, but have a shortcut to the wow executable which you can launch at will.
You have to type in your username and password, which is a miniscule inconvenience to avoid all of the backend crap you’re no longer loading.