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Does anyone even use voice chat anymore?
I've been away from mmos for about 5 years now, I recently came back and I now play ESO and GW2 regularly. But one thing I noticed is that I tried about 10 different guilds in each game and none of the guilds use voice chat for just social purposes (not just for raiding or doing dungeons). I remember when I used to play back in the day every guild I was in, in any game, had people packed in teamspeak or ventrilo and there was always conversations going on every time of the day. Now, like I said I joined like 10 guilds in each game, and there isn't one single person in the discord voice chats. I'm not here to complain or anything, I'm just genuinely curious, is it me just having no luck with this, or is it not a feature people use anymore? And if it's not just me having bad luck, is there any reason it's like this now?
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I know that, that wasn't my question. My question wasn't what they use now, my question was why is there no one using voice chat in discord? Back then people used to talk in teamspeak and ventrilo all the time. (From my experiences)0
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✭I have guilds that use discord and some that use Teamspeak.
I've found ones that use discord tend to not sit in voice and just use the chat box.
Ones that use Teamspeak do generally sit in voice (I mean that's pretty much what it is).
Not all guilds use Discord, but it is common since it is free. I don't like it as much as Teamspeak though.Make PC NA raiding great again!
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✭✭✭✭✭You all do know ESO has built in Voice Chat right?CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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Ye have fun with that, many on PC would absolutely hate ingame voip, it would be worse than esn sonar on the battlefield games lol.
OP, a lot of guilds use ts3/discord/vent etc, in fact most of the guilds I know from early access days on pc eu have used some form of voip.
Especially organised pvp and progression based pve guilds, voip is a essential component.Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.
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itehache✭✭✭✭Well I do use discord all day with my spanish guild but my other 4 guilds use it only when we raid/pvp etc.0 -
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There's so many good third-party voice services that it's kind of unnecessary for PC games to build it in.3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »
There's so many good third-party voice services that it's kind of unnecessary for PC games to build it in.
Unnecessary but favorable. I liked not having to run a separate program for voice in tf2 and l4d.
On the other hand these days I would only use voice chat to listen to instructions, not to talk.#FiteForYourRite Bosmer = Stealth
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shadelon✭✭✭The vast majority if not the entirety of my guild on ps4 prefers text and never touches the voice channels at all. I myself also prefer text.The Airstrike - Flower Lady
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SBC✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »
There's so many good third-party voice services that it's kind of unnecessary for PC games to build it in.
Not to mention using the game's built-in chat is simply awful. I can't think of a game that I have actually had a good experience with in-game voice. It's always horrid quality and drops in and out. I use TS if I'm on PC and just stick with the party chat when I am on the PS4.
I will add though, that when we have guild events and such, we use the group chat and it's hit or miss. When you get into areas of heavy activity it can get pretty bad.Edited by SBC on April 16, 2017 8:02AM0 -
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Because if they didn't, console players would have no way of communicating with each other aside from forming XBL parties (PS has equivalents, I'm assuming) or awkwardly using one of those chat pads you plug into a controller.0 -
CalydorEstalon✭✭✭Voice chat, especially in the EU region, is just ... no.
Consider that the minority of people here speak English as their primary language, maybe not even their second, but they DO read and write it. Using text chat makes it possible to come across clearly, without accents getting in the way, without sounding stupid because you have to think about every other word.
Also, text chat has the advantage that you can step away, maybe go to the bathroom, and come back to the conversation without missing anything. ALSO also, voice chat if you're sitting in the living room, annoying your family because you're speaking a foreign language while they're trying to watch a movie? Yeah no.4 -
lordhakai✭✭✭I am glad there is not built in voip on pc. Can you imagine auridon voice chats I shudder to think.2
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✭I played Lotro for years and while I often was in voice using external software, it was only ever a few of us from the guild that did this.
If I remember correctly, we paid for the number of voice channels we wanted to use.
The two guilds I belonged to in my time with lotro were much smaller than many of the ESO ones and even then, it was only a small group of us who chose to use it outside of raids, both the guilds had website's and it was usually those active in the guilds forum who used voice and contributed financially for both the website and the voice server.
The problem with doing this on ESO is that we can belong to multiple guilds. So even a smallish guild where we are all very sociable, chances are many of us are also in a trials or PvP guild. One may use Discord another TS etc. Even if they all used say Discord, which guilds voice channel should we sit in for general guild chat, and if we chose guild A, you might join guild B and wonder why no one is there.
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✭✭✭✭✭I often feel the opposite - I can't use voice chat most of the time so I always look for guilds that don't require it, and ideally don't use it at all and I often have to go through several guilds to find one where people actually talk in text chat. I'll often spend an evening thinking no one is talking, even if I type something I get maybe 1 brief reply, then I find out everyone has been talking in the voice chat they assured me they hardly ever use.
But I've managed to find a few guilds who genuinely do use text chat most of the time.
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Moiskormoimi✭✭✭✭I like to do my own thing and chat once in a while with the guilds I'm in. I don't really need it since I'm more on the casual side but I'd only use it for dugeons/raids anyway.
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SiltoneousSoul ShrivenI loved having a guild that had active voice / chat channels. I found having a guild with a set of active chat channels made it easy to drop in, see what was going on, and either hang around, or move on to a more specialized room (PvP, PvE, etc..). Especially nice when you were just doing things like mat gathering, thieving runs, ect...
It's probably the primary reason I feel so many MMO's seem anti-social. Given how active in general you have to be in ESO (moving, dodging, running from place to place), I know more than a few people who find it difficult to keep track of guild chat, much less being able to actively converse in game. Even dual monitoring it with a different app ((Discord, what-have-you) I have seen issues, particularly with constantly changing focus from one app to another.
Having some experience with multi-game guilds, perhaps that is where the active voice guilds are hiding.
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✭✭✭✭✭CalydorEstalon wrote: »Voice chat, especially in the EU region, is just ... no.
Consider that the minority of people here speak English as their primary language, maybe not even their second, but they DO read and write it. Using text chat makes it possible to come across clearly, without accents getting in the way, without sounding stupid because you have to think about every other word.
Also, text chat has the advantage that you can step away, maybe go to the bathroom, and come back to the conversation without missing anything. ALSO also, voice chat if you're sitting in the living room, annoying your family because you're speaking a foreign language while they're trying to watch a movie? Yeah no.
Ran a multi-national alliance on TS3 with over 100 members and very rarely was there an issue with accents or language barriers. I believe only one raid leader from Lancashire was hard for some to understand.
You just have to make sure you speak a little slower and annunciate orders if they're complex.
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✭Discord and Teamspeak ^^
I use Discord in one guild where we just joke around and have fun. In 2 other guilds I use TS for pvp raiding and trials.Edited by Runschei on April 26, 2017 2:03PM0 -
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Ye have fun with that, many on PC would absolutely hate ingame voip, it would be worse than esn sonar on the battlefield games lol.
OP, a lot of guilds use ts3/discord/vent etc, in fact most of the guilds I know from early access days on pc eu have used some form of voip.
Especially organised pvp and progression based pve guilds, voip is a essential component.
Its not as bad as it used to be. Its been probably a 8 or 9 months since Ive heard anyone talking in open world VOIP on PS4. It used to be that youd go into Daggerfall and there would be a group of players standing around the water fountain ****talking and being obnoxious enough on VOIP that you had to leave it. Now there might still be the occasional person on comms but at least for me I havent seen or heard someone on VOIP in a long time. Even before Text Chat was introduced.Penniless Sellsword CompanyCaptain Paramount - Jorrhaq VhentKorith Eaglecry * Enrerion Aedihle * Laerinel Rhaev * Caius Berilius * Seylina Ithvala * H'Vak the GrimjawlTenarei Rhaev * Dazsh Ro Khar * Yynril Rothvani * Bathes-In-Coin * Anaelle Faerniil * Azjani Ma'LesAban Shahid Bakr * Kheshna gra-Gharbuk * Gallisten Bondurant * Etain Maquier * Atsu Kalame * Faulpia SeverinusWhat is better, to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort? - Paarthurnax0 -
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✭✭I personally dislike social voice chat, preferring it to stay in guild chat.
I don't want to sit in a channel and listen to random people actually talking about random things when I prefer to hear the game sounds.
Plus, scrolling chat makes it look more alive.0 -
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It does, but it's horrible. It's unstable, because if the game lags, communication cuts out. In a group event, this isn't an ideal situation to be in. There's also a range factor, which means the farther you are from the person(s) speaking, the harder it is to hear them.You all do know ESO has built in Voice Chat right?
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