Xbox/PS4 - It's Just Common Courtesy!!!

AceVenturaXII

Just a common courtesy tip for using the new voice chat feature.
Often every player around you can hear your baby crying, or your mom yelling at you, or your music blaring because your kinect is acting like a microphone for your voice chat. PLEASE disable public chat if you have a lot of ambient background noise. This is extremely annoying and until we get a Mute Player button, the only option is for those around you to leave the area or leave chat themselves.
If your kid is saying "Daddy, play with me!" Into your headset microphone, we can all hear that. Please be a good parent first, and a good gamer second. Do your best to keep unwanted or potentially annoying things coming through chat. No one wants to hear you DJ music while you're playing ESO. Thanks everyone.
If you have any other Common Courtesy tips please comment.

Darkrosesus

Hello, I completely agree with you. This is my very first time playing an MMO but there are some things that need to be muted. Since I started I have heard all of what you mentioned including a guy with a cold coughing and snorting into his mic. Yuck.

Another common courtesy for me which should be a no-brainer : if you see me fighting a crab, please do not come over to help me kill it. I am trying to build my sword skills. Seriously!

RavenSworn

Darkrosesus wrote: »

Hello, I completely agree with you. This is my very first time playing an MMO but there are some things that need to be muted. Since I started I have heard all of what you mentioned including a guy with a cold coughing and snorting into his mic. Yuck.

Another common courtesy for me which should be a no-brainer : if you see me fighting a crab, please do not come over to help me kill it. I am trying to build my sword skills. Seriously!

Just a note, this isnt like skyrim that requires you to hit the target multiple times to increase the skill. As long as you hit the target and it dies regardless of who killed it, you will still receive the exp. Watch the latest video for eso trailers. Unless of cos you want to build your own personal skill of killing mudcrabs..

A5ko

I was in the market place in Auridon two days ago working on some crafting, when all of a sudden I hear a couple's heated argument about how he lays about all day masturbating and playing games. She goes on to call him a useless father and boyfriend and she doesn't know why she continues to stay with him.

What follows can only be described as chaos, and then the mic goes silent for the remainder of my time in the marketplace.

First murder over voice maybe?

Ulaidian

There are certainly some mad things being heard over the game.. kids crying really annoys me. As a father, I am never so engrossed in the game that they are ignored.

AceVenturaXII

Ya, being a parent comes first. I remember years ago when I was a young father still wrapped up in myself, I would play PC games. My wife said to our infant daughter "Where's daddy?" And my daughters first reaction was to look over at the computer for me. That's when I realized I needed to make serious changes in my habits and how I spent my time at home. My kids deserve better than what I was giving them. So everyone out there - put down the controller and spend time with your kids, read them a story, kiss them goodnight, and then come on here and defend your keep!

Funkopotamus

Mmmmmaannnn I swear to you yesterday some persons dog crashed my game to desktop. I went into town and my headset almost EXPLODED and my game froze and crashed!
Sounded like some poor sap was being EATEN alive by pit bulls.

Zephyr01

Two nights ago I swear someone was strangling their parrot. It was a most hideous sound.

God-eater

Agreed - it's my only complaint so far - I have heard one actual game conversation, half a dozen "Is anyone there?" over area chat, but mostly it's the background noise of yet another *** who does not bother with a mute button.

If you're not going to say anything anyway, just mute the mic - or unplug it.

Alternatively, ZoS can default area chat to off - save me the trouble of doing it repeatedly.

Jamebo

Text chat needs to make a comeback in this game. There's a reason every MMO has it. We console players aren't too stupid to type ZOS.

Soulvayne

One thing I've generally found is if you go into the social menu and you select that person who's making all the noise you can chose to view gamer card and just block the person. This seems to keep you from hearing them, though you won't be able to group with them either.

cajun_duck

The other night I could not stop laughing. This one guy was on mic talking to his cat. Telling the cat that his food was in the other room and whose a good kitty. Freaking hilarious.

AceVenturaXII

I play with a headset that plugs into the controller. It has a volume control for game audio and mike audio and a big mute button. If I think I'm gonna sneeze or something, I hit the mute, no one hears me, then I hit it again and it's back to normal. Theres gotta be some improvements made to this problem for those without a headset.

VinnyTheShill

AceVenturaXII wrote: »

Just a common courtesy tip for using the new voice chat feature.
Often every player around you can hear your baby crying, or your mom yelling at you, or your music blaring because your kinect is acting like a microphone for your voice chat. PLEASE disable public chat if you have a lot of ambient background noise. This is extremely annoying and until we get a Mute Player button, the only option is for those around you to leave the area or leave chat themselves.
If your kid is saying "Daddy, play with me!" Into your headset microphone, we can all hear that. Please be a good parent first, and a good gamer second. Do your best to keep unwanted or potentially annoying things coming through chat. No one wants to hear you DJ music while you're playing ESO. Thanks everyone.
If you have any other Common Courtesy tips please comment.

Was just complaining about this in game. Not sure why so many people on PS4 feel the need to scream in their mics and cant seem to keep the background noise down. I often appeal to them to please turn it down and do us all a favor and usually get some rude response back. Apparently yelling for them to shake their baby or tell their wife to get into the kitchen doesn't help either.

Headberg2174

Agree %100. Happens in every game. I miss the talk button xbox used to have.

PoseidonEvil

AceVenturaXII wrote: »

Just a common courtesy tip for using the new voice chat feature.
Often every player around you can hear your baby crying, or your mom yelling at you, or your music blaring because your kinect is acting like a microphone for your voice chat. PLEASE disable public chat if you have a lot of ambient background noise. This is extremely annoying and until we get a Mute Player button, the only option is for those around you to leave the area or leave chat themselves.
If your kid is saying "Daddy, play with me!" Into your headset microphone, we can all hear that. Please be a good parent first, and a good gamer second. Do your best to keep unwanted or potentially annoying things coming through chat. No one wants to hear you DJ music while you're playing ESO. Thanks everyone.
If you have any other Common Courtesy tips please comment.

had a guy whose phone was ringing EXTREMELY loud. not a good gaming experience to have

Pokoyo

I dislike how it's automatically turned on. At 1st I didn't realise. Then have to mute this every time I turn eso on sometimes I play with headset sometimes I don't. I clicked don't join chat but I still keep connecting not sure what's going on with this game I often have people's names stuck on my screen saying there talking even if I exit and re enter the game. What with invisible npc's and invisible npc enemies I often think I am on dial up not fibre Internet..

X_TOX1C1TY_X

AceVenturaXII wrote: »

Ya, being a parent comes first. I remember years ago when I was a young father still wrapped up in myself, I would play PC games. My wife said to our infant daughter "Where's daddy?" And my daughters first reaction was to look over at the computer for me. That's when I realized I needed to make serious changes in my habits and how I spent my time at home. My kids deserve better than what I was giving them. So everyone out there - put down the controller and spend time with your kids, read them a story, kiss them goodnight, and then come on here and defend your keep!

That is exactly what I do. I am 28 and a father of two very soon to be three beautiful kids. They are my life, and although I am a very passionate gamer, I am an even more passionate father and husband.

Csoto519b14_ESO

The one ingame conversation I tried to have was me walking in on a legitimate conversation between about 4 people (all men) and I timidly asked if they were waiting for a spawn. One told me to "**** off!" very rudely, and since then, I don't even bother with local chats, since when I do try, I just get told to go back into the kitchen or whatever.

OzJohnD

My PSN app provides adequate person to person chat ... I do sometimes miss PC zone chat though

MilwaukeeScott

I'm on PS4. In Options under Voice Chat, you can leave the channel you're in. No more parakeet murders.

My headphones let me mute chat but I still leave the channel so I don't have the Chatters names flashing on the bottom of my screen.

FunkDrSpotRocker

I agree with the OP. Please be mindful of other players. Sometimes my kids are watching me play and someone runs in screaming profanities or stupid things into their mic. It's really annoying.

OmniStalker

On ps4, i found in voice chat if you go into the person you dont want to hears profile and block him, then go back in again and unblock him, the voice remains toggled off for that person. Repeat the process to re-enable their voice. It shows a microphone with a slash when they are muted. Should just have an option to do this directly, but we dont.

datwitty

As a side note, if you want to be res'd or helped, ask nicely. Don't act like a *** and demand things from me without a please, I'm not your mother.

Egg_Death

A5ko wrote: »

I was in the market place in Auridon two days ago working on some crafting, when all of a sudden I hear a couple's heated argument about how he lays about all day masturbating and playing games. She goes on to call him a useless father and boyfriend and she doesn't know why she continues to stay with him.

What follows can only be described as chaos, and then the mic goes silent for the remainder of my time in the marketplace.

First murder over voice maybe?

Wow, that tops mine for sure. I was on voice chat last week one day when all of a sudden I hear a couple talking about how the wife is creeped out by the husband's touch because their kids are touching her all day or something like that. Thought that was kind of creepy. It seemed like some passive-aggressive type of couple argument to me.

I can see it being a problem on Xbox with the kinect, but on the PS4 I rarely have issues, and I'm sure there will be less issues as time goes on. There should really be a collective mute feature that will automute people who have been muted by a lot of other players. That would shut people up quick who spam the channel with ***.

Betrael

Funny you mention the girl chewing out the boyfriend.
I heard something similar yesterday, although I could only hear the woman's side, it almost seemed like she knew he knew everyone in town could hear all the personal and degrading things she was saying about him.
Public shaming at it's most anonymous.

grumlins

OMG YASSSS!

I cannot tell you how many times I've heard some weirdness just come barging into the gameplay because someone left their headset on.

There's actually been people having arguments with their parents and their parents shutting off the xbox there's been couples having arguments, there's been parents asking if the kid has drugs, there's been racist conversations going on in the background I mean cmon now seriously folks.

Darkrosesus

Csoto519b14_ESO wrote: »

The one ingame conversation I tried to have was me walking in on a legitimate conversation between about 4 people (all men) and I timidly asked if they were waiting for a spawn. One told me to "**** off!" very rudely, and since then, I don't even bother with local chats, since when I do try, I just get told to go back into the kitchen or whatever.

I definitely would have reported that personally.

GNRNCSBLSS

Totally agree, why others don't understand this is beyond me.

However... you were wrong to say you cant mute people... you just click on them and go to their profile, and right there it says mute player, takes less than 10 seconds.

Novustratum

My sentiments exactly. I get that they made an area chat to facilitate the lack of being able to quickly type messages into a public chat space, but really it just leads to severe annoyance. The points you mentioned aside, there's also the people who intentionally annoy everyone in area chat because they have nothing better to do.

Fun tip for PS4 users: If you want to mute someone being annoying in area chat, go up to the player, inspect their profile, and block their PSN name when inspecting. Give it about 10-15 seconds and voila! Muted. Not sure if this has similar results on Xbox.

GreyHound501

The thing I most hate is when someone gets a echo on thier mic I really hate hearing myself say what I just said but in regards to common courtesy I try to mute my mic when I go to talk to family or something but sometimes I forget and so my conversation can be heard while other times I am trying to talk to someone in town and my mic is muted and has been for the last 2 minutes so I have been chatting to myself