All forms of chat on the console version are complete failures!

nastuug

Sallington wrote: »

sadownik wrote: »

Oh and its so terriblel to have that dreadful text chat you can turn off.

Well if the inability to map your own controller layout is any indication, ZOS things console users are too dumb to handle any customization options and might ruin their game for themselves.

@Sallington Along with the fact that ZOS thinks consolers are too dense to use FOV and camera center sliders.

Preyfar

Cuyler wrote: »

Fan Boys have been trolling on the community how great chat was going to be for consoles for a month now. Now that it's here LOLOLOL. Have fun guys, at least you may get introduced to some new music you like.......or not....maybe a new appreciation for newborn infants....or learn a second language

I logged in to Xbox One last night to literally hear some kid calling me every racial slur in the book because I had a leopard senche and he was new, and he was pissed off I wouldn't give it to him. He just kept screaming and screaming. =D

And this made me glade ESO PC does not have voice chat.

Zazaaji

Everyone knows my stances on voice chat. It still stands, I hate it. I really want/need text chat to be able to truly enjoy this game.

MAOofDC

Preyfar wrote: »

Cuyler wrote: »

Fan Boys have been trolling on the community how great chat was going to be for consoles for a month now. Now that it's here LOLOLOL. Have fun guys, at least you may get introduced to some new music you like.......or not....maybe a new appreciation for newborn infants....or learn a second language

I logged in to Xbox One last night to literally hear some kid calling me every racial slur in the book because I had a leopard senche and he was new, and he was pissed off I wouldn't give it to him. He just kept screaming and screaming. =D

And this made me glade ESO PC does not have voice chat.

Number one reason I'm SO glad I play on PC even with all of the bugs and missed deadlines.

Preyfar

MAOofDC wrote: »

Number one reason I'm SO glad I play on PC even with all of the bugs and missed deadlines.

I will say the Xbox One feels exceedingly polished compared to the PC version. But the voice chat... it was funny to listen to, even if annoying. I was playing at 5:00am, and kept thinking "I don't know how old this kid is, but even if he's West coast, it's 2:00am... where are his parents?"

MAOofDC

Preyfar wrote: »

MAOofDC wrote: »

Number one reason I'm SO glad I play on PC even with all of the bugs and missed deadlines.

I will say the Xbox One feels exceedingly polished compared to the PC version. But the voice chat... it was funny to listen to, even if annoying. I was playing at 5:00am, and kept thinking "I don't know how old this kid is, but even if he's West coast, it's 2:00am... where are his parents?"

You're Welcome for me beta testing it for you. Both in the ACTUAL Beta and the year since it went live.

Preyfar

MAOofDC wrote: »

You're Welcome for me beta testing it for you. Both in the ACTUAL Beta and the year since it went live.

Heh. I've been here since launch (beta, too!). I've paid my year of beta testing. =D

Sugarman3000

I think the voice chat is going to be best suited when it comes to PvP or a group dungeon at the veteran level stage, not on launch day when there is easily 300 people in one are a screaming God knows what constantly, and I feel that is what ZOS wanted it used for. I agree about the names though, there should be a copy paste feature of sorts

PoseidonEvil

idk about failures lol. how to adjust to for sure but when i went into town it was completely silent lol. maybe wrong part of the map or something but yeah i like voice chat. im still hoping for text chat though for trades

skwake

nastuug wrote: »

Sallington wrote: »

sadownik wrote: »

Oh and its so terriblel to have that dreadful text chat you can turn off.

Well if the inability to map your own controller layout is any indication, ZOS things console users are too dumb to handle any customization options and might ruin their game for themselves.

@Sallington Along with the fact that ZOS thinks consolers are too dense to use FOV and camera center sliders.

So much this!

Just let me zoom out you ***!

Nazon_Katts

I think most just know to turn off area chat and only work with group channels or friend chat anyways. Spatial is for the lulz and personally I do not know of anyone using that seriuosly, only out of desperation. For a broader audience and public channels, voice remains impractical in a gaming setting and text still works best.

I only have come by accidental area chat users (random noise), recruiters (guilds, golds, gods and worse) and drunks. The latter being the only reason I'd insist on keeping spatial. Leeroys for everyone.

ZachShaw

I must admit that having no text chat really does give weight to why ZOS heavily marketed this as an Online RPG and not an MMO. Running round doing quests without any interaction with players because I've disabled voice is making ESO feel *almost* as lifeless as playing Destiny does. I'm all for having in built VoIP, and I thought it was a great idea at first but right now ESO feels like I'm playing a dumbed down version of Skyrim with other players running around frantically doing their own thing sharing all their background noise to the world and no compelling reason to warrant needing to actually talk to people by voice.

Not being able to trade via text chat or simply interact with someone outside of guild chat when you can't be bothered to use a mic is breaking the experience big time, and in all honesty so far it isn't as fun as other MMO's I've played when they've launched. Probably because of the above, which is a shame as ESO has plenty of support and potential from the number of players I've seen online so far.

Korah_Eaglecry

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

I had some Aussie trying to harrass me.

But. All you have to do is actually leave the 'Area' Chat and youll be fine.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/175000/guild-finder-tool-needed#latest

Im asking for a Guild Search Tool that can be used by both Guilds and Individuals to connect better in the current UI setup.

Korah_Eaglecry

Theyve really screwed this up. Not only is it hard to find Guilds as individuals but its hard to find other Guilds as a Guild.

In PC there are Guilds creating Alliances with each other and expanding on their community through RP/PvP/PvE participation. Youre not going to get this in PS4 and XB1 because the process is a headache just to get members to join.

Bouvin

Isbilen wrote: »

As soon as I logged in, I went to the starter zone, and the absolutely first thing I hear is some guy playing music through his microphone

My mind just went "*** called it" and turned off voice chat.

I logged on into Rawl'Kha.

There was only 1 person in the bank and like 2 people in town.



Because it was so sparse I heard no voice chat haha... wife is rolling a toon on PS4 tonight though. She hasn't played the game yet.. can't wait to see her reaction to voice chat.

IcyDeadPeople

Ojustaboo wrote: »

My first experience with voice went pretty much as I feared.

Started a new character, in the prison.

As Lyris was talking to me with quest instructions, someone shouted loudly about potions drowning her out.
This happened 3 times.

As I was wondering around looting stuff, I was looting near where Cadwell is, I then heard a muffled but loud echoey Cadwell giving someone else quest instructions that were obviously coming out of their TV speakers straight into their mike.

Finally I was ready to listen to Cadwell, I hear him say about 3 words then I hear a man and a woman shouting at each other in what I think was German, sounded like he was yelling at her while she was in another room, again drowning out everything Cadwell was saying.

Totally ruining any immersion for me.

My only choice, put player voice volume to 0 and have zero way of communication.

Is there an ignore list? can you mute specific people?

StonieTimelord

I think the chat system is awesome!



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Just for elder scrolls and all the wonders it shall bring!!!

Shadesofkin

I'd really like a push to talk function installed (automatically on) and a way to mute everyone unless they're in your guild or group.

NewBlacksmurf

Shadesofkin wrote: »

I'd really like a push to talk function installed (automatically on) and a way to mute everyone unless they're in your guild or group.

Try an Xbox one. (We have a mute button)

Shadesofkin

Frawr wrote: »

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It is probably how they genuinely imagined it working.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. I honestly wish design teams took this to heart so they could consider options afterwards without always trying to (only) encourage the original idea.

Varicite

Shadesofkin wrote: »

Frawr wrote: »

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It is probably how they genuinely imagined it working.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. I honestly wish design teams took this to heart so they could consider options afterwards without always trying to (only) encourage the original idea.

It's not like this exact thing has not been tried before...

Hawk269

Bouvin wrote: »

Isbilen wrote: »

As soon as I logged in, I went to the starter zone, and the absolutely first thing I hear is some guy playing music through his microphone

My mind just went "*** called it" and turned off voice chat.

I logged on into Rawl'Kha.

There was only 1 person in the bank and like 2 people in town.



Because it was so sparse I heard no voice chat haha... wife is rolling a toon on PS4 tonight though. She hasn't played the game yet.. can't wait to see her reaction to voice chat.

LOL.

My wife is going to play later today, but she watched me play last night and first thing she asked was "how do I turn it off so I don't hear all the crap?". She is fine with voice chat in a group, but even as a novice, she already dislikes the area wide chat. Thankfully it can be turned off.

However, this still does not take care of the ability to sell things to random people like you can on PC. What makes it worse, I can walk around town saying "Selling a 2 Handed Sword", but no way of showing people what the attributes or level of the item. A chat box making it an "optional" think would allow people to link items in the chat box.

As much as I am loving the game on console, it has a lot of community issues and making things harder than they actually should be.

I just hope that ZOS re-considers this and if they do they could implement it quickly.

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO

I, like most here, agree that there should be added VC channels. I.e...wtb/wts ch, zone wide ch, lfg ch, guild recruitment etc ch...but for now, there is a part of the fourms that ppl are listing their guilds and ppl looking for guilds.

I'm sure there is room on this fourm for ppl listing wat they want to buy and or wat they want to sell to.

[snip]



Now grab a mic and hav sum fun!

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KanedaSyndrome

Comments made me come.

Varicite

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO wrote: »

I, like most here, agree that there should be added VC channels. I.e...wtb/wts ch, zone wide ch, lfg ch, guild recruitment etc ch...but for now, there is a part of the fourms that ppl are listing their guilds and ppl looking for guilds.

I'm sure there is room on this fourm for ppl listing wat they want to buy and or wat they want to sell to.

[snip]



Now grab a mic and hav sum fun!

Strange, none of that was much different from what you I hear in area chat in the starter zones, lol.

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tordr86b16_ESO

I knew this was going to happen and was a bad idea... I'm not even a developer, speaks volumes about ZOS's staff.

Zusia211

It needs a chat box you can bring up to talk with people. Either they could have it only be an option in one location or it be available only to groups and guilds.

Carterboy254

Do yall think they will fix it

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO

Varicite wrote: »

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO wrote: »

I, like most here, agree that there should be added VC channels. I.e...wtb/wts ch, zone wide ch, lfg ch, guild recruitment etc ch...but for now, there is a part of the fourms that ppl are listing their guilds and ppl looking for guilds.

I'm sure there is room on this fourm for ppl listing wat they want to buy and or wat they want to sell to.

[snip]



Now grab a mic and hav sum fun!

Strange, none of that was much different from what you I hear in area chat in the starter zones, lol.

lol, well then that takes away the argument for text chat to be added, since it's no different. [snip] Well, since they both have the same thing, then no need to add it since it will not resolve those 'issues'...... they want to get away from

Or, the 'horror stories' from VC are being grossly over exaggerated....

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Varicite

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO wrote: »

Varicite wrote: »

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO wrote: »

I, like most here, agree that there should be added VC channels. I.e...wtb/wts ch, zone wide ch, lfg ch, guild recruitment etc ch...but for now, there is a part of the fourms that ppl are listing their guilds and ppl looking for guilds.

I'm sure there is room on this fourm for ppl listing wat they want to buy and or wat they want to sell to.

[snip]



Now grab a mic and hav sum fun!

Strange, none of that was much different from what you I hear in area chat in the starter zones, lol.

lol, well then that takes away the argument for text chat to be added, since it's no different. [snip] Well, since they both have the same thing, then no need to add it since it will not resolve those 'issues'...... they want to get away from

Or, the 'horror stories' from VC are being grossly over exaggerated....

I don't see any reason not to add it, personally. It's been tried and worked perfectly fine in previous console MMOs such as FFXI, and that game is over a decade old.

Choices like this are good and broaden the audience that a game can appeal to, not to mention solves the issue of forcing people to log onto an internet forum just to sell their in-game goods, which is a backwards solution in 2015 if ever I've heard one.

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