I never said there’s anything wrong with that. I said that if you don’t want it, then you can turn it off. I don’t really believe that you would mind it that much though. Typically, most people don’t talk in voice chat - they just listen. If you really really don’t like listening to people… well, then you can deafen it.
And you don’t have to. Just mute them. If Blizzard wants to take an extra step towards moderation, then there can be a report button to forward their voice recording to a moderation service at that moment in time.
World channels don’t have voice chat.
I’m telling you, that people aren’t like this if they actually have to talk. Chatting is so much easier to type “anal [for the children] haha!!!”. Besides, I’m talking about voice chat in groups, not world channels.
Pros:
People can talk to each other and generally it will be easier to break free from the monotony of doing content without much interaction whatsoever.
Cons:
A tiny bit of your computing being used.
If it’s not tiny, then again, that’s on the devs to clean up their code, because Ventrilo ran fine on potatoes almost 20 years ago.
What I’m getting from a lot of the comments in here is that the people you’re playing with on the daily are a horde of mindless screeching idiots. Is that true? I believe the figure above was “1 in 30 are sane”.
There’s 25 people posting in this thread, and I’ve yet to see a screecher.
I really don’t think that’s true. What proof do I have? Well, I used to play other games like Counter-Strike where you need to communicate with your team, with random people, and things went just fine, if not everyone having a lot of entertainment.
That isn’t what the interface says… When I click on the speaker next to my chat window, they are listed. If Voice Chat isn’t available for them, they wouldn’t be listed in the Voice Chat window.
The few times I’ve used blizzard Voip it worked great.
Wish my guild used it instead of Discord. Blizard Voip is already loaded, so it’s less memory available for the game to have Discord running. And discord takes longer to start up than WoW. Not sure how they managed that.
And you always have to worry about free products that want to install an always running service.
Do you talk to every random stranger you encounter on the street? the bus? in the store? Does proximity = “must start conversation” to you? Because that’s what you’re asking for when you want voice chat to be on by default.
The channels window shows both types, so like, you got the world channels which don’t have an icon for voice chat, and then the other guild/community/party channel which do.
Ironic that people are complaining about unnecessary services in here, but then Discord uses probably 100x the load of WoW’s voice chat, with its whole web browser interface.
The difference with voice chatting ingame is that you don’t need to talk. You’re not starting a conversation with people and expecting them to engage back. You’re simply talking, and people who feel inclined to respond can.
I’m not too familiar with League’s community (but from rumors, maybe I can imagine that it’s not that great of people), but I spent a lot of time in other shooters, and voice chat was never really a problem. If anything, you do have the random screecher, but you can mute them.
I think the pros really outweigh the cons. Like really, in a dungeon run, people usually just zerg everything because they don’t have the patience to type something up in chat and pause everything they’re doing with their character. If the group could easily hear things they say in voice chat? It think it’d open up some different entertaining opportunities.
Not in any guild/community/party channels. All I see are the world channels. This is only on the voice chat window so if they don’t support it, they shouldn’t be shown. I am not talking about the Settings Panel where I can change chat colors and which tabs they appear on.
During beta there was a pop-up whenever you joined a group asking if you wanted to use voice chat.
A ton of us complained about it and Blizzard removed the pop up, fortunately.
Why did we complain? Because a lot of us are ALREADY in voice chat with our friends when we make groups. I’m always on mumble or discord and so are the people I’m grouping with.
We don’t need Blizzard’s voice chat, we will never use Blizzard’s voice chat, and I really wish there was an option to uninstall it.
So… I logged in and clicked on the Speaker icon in my chat window.
That gives this window:
If I could turn voice chat off, that button wouldn’t exist in my UI and I wouldn’t see that list. Still looking for this deafen button you keep referring to.
I’m not sure what’s causing those error messages, but it’s probably some addon.
As for that window, that’s your chat channel window, and it includes non-voice channels. If there isn’t a headphones icon, then you can’t voice-chat in those.
The deafen button should be located next to your chatbox, but it looks like you’re using ElvUI, which is really ironic because ElvUI isn’t exactly the most lightweight thing you can add to your game.
Like, we’re talking about unnecessary additions to the game, but what ElvUI does is reimplements just about everything unnecessarily.
Actually I am talking about Privacy. Plus, I am not using ElvUI. It is a lot bulkier and resource intensive than my UI.
The error messages have occurred ever since Voice Chat was added and occur without any addons loaded. Never received a response to my support ticket which I created back in August.
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