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.

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 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.

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

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 ***!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Comments made me come.

Do yall think they will fix it

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.

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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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