What happened to voice chat?!

[Tonberry]

People are babies, that’s one reason.
Example: @quixotic_kimchi didn’t like what he was reading here and decided not to participate. What got to em’ that badly? Idk but that’s their problem

I feel like the only voice chats that still work, and actively get people engaged, are proximity voice chats but I could be wrong. I don’t play too many games with prox chat

Proximity voice chat is great fun, that’s true.

 

[Burzuru]

Proximity voice chat is great fun, that’s true.

*angry swearing and comments about your mom gradually gets louder*

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Mf’s will dox you for playing a game lmao

 

[Deleted member 821138]

This discourse is replete with lamentations, presumably from children, decrying the justifiable curtailment of collective invective online. To sustain such a thread is madness. Intolerance must not be indulged, but extirpated with the swiftness and decisiveness of removing said tumor.

It is, frankly, a dereliction of duty, a stain upon their honor, that the arbiters of this forum permit such a thread with such obvious bad actors to persist.

Pigs in filth, chasing a social high.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

This discourse is replete with lamentations, presumably from children, decrying the justifiable curtailment of collective invective online. To sustain such a thread is madness. Intolerance must not be indulged, but extirpated with the swiftness and decisiveness of removing said tumor.

It is, frankly, a dereliction of duty, a stain upon their honor, that the arbiters of this forum permit such a thread with such obvious bad actors to persist.

Pigs in filth, chasing a social high.

I don't think there's much discourse here? I like this thread to continue to give me more insight of what history of why chat has died as one poster made a good point it became accessible and opened the flood gates as I don't remember early WoW videos on youtube having such CoDl lobby behavior. Any why should the mods or owner remove a civil discussion? Aside from the OP throwing in a slur in the original post (which I could assume was the f one) most have been respectful if not disgruntled at the heavy handedness of moderation that allows false reporting to go unpunished just as well as at the bad actors, who have hurt the main source of communication for cooperative gameplay. I was a solo player and remain as such so I like to stay in the know of the past and present trends of gaming even as a nonparticipant if only just to understand weird corporate decisions that later trickle down my gaming spheres.

 

[RGT Staff]

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[Tonberry]

For the record I was talking about this kind of proximity voice chat:

Just totally innocuous, spontaneous fun with someone you’ll never meet again but it makes for a great story, kinda like having a 10 minute conversation with a stranger at a bus stop, or chatting with a cashier at a specialty goods store because you’re both enthusiastic about the product.

Emergent gameplay can sure be magical sometimes.

 

[Clippy]

Also:

 

[KaiserMk7]

What ever happened to the old saying " Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. "

Those sayings were said for a reason. When words can be criminalised, you have tyranny. Punishment is for violent crimes, sexual crimes, thievery & treason.

Words can cause very lasting harm that can make you wish you were physically scarred instead, although those words aren't typically in voice chat unless it's targeted harassment.
Violence is not purely physical, thievery and treason are often achieved through deception, sequences of words uttered in public spaces can be quite sexually explicit in a way that's meant to titilate or cause discomfort rather than educate, and defamation is a very legitimate legal concept.

On the other hand if we keep going this way we won't be able to call people stupid because that's going to be a 'slur' soon. Some people need to hear the hard truth. It is what it is and desperately trying to soften the blow or not even deal it in the first place is not the road to take.

Quite the opposite. Stupid is one of a number of clinical terms that are no longer slurs because people no longer recognize it as comparing someone, with great contempt, to a person with a disability. They only see that it sounds funny and is an insult to a person's intelligence or common sense. It's kinda like how jerk is a generally acceptable insult in children's shows.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

All I really have to add is that I've been annoyed that certain games have removed the option outright. I was frustrated that I couldn't banter with friends in-game in Street Fighter 6, something we did in Street Fighter 4 all the time.

 

[lytrid]

Voice chat is still alive and well on Team Fortress 2.

There is a noticeable difference between EU and NA servers, however. EU servers are usually dead quiet whereas on NA someone is always talking in voice chat. Might apply to other games too.

 

[DjQuick2008]

I havent used voice chat since i had a PS3 retail took my soul and now i dont want to talk after a certain time of day. 17 years of actual interactions with people im just fine playing with spotify on.

 

[JellyjamLu]

The simple answer is people.
anonymity of hiding behind a mic at home where you feel you can get away with trash talking a stranger online and be safe & get a weird satisfied kick by doing so.
Now everyone is purposefully avoiding it because 9 times out of 10 that's probably what's awaiting you unfortunately & most individuals with any sense will move on from it.

 

[sandogma sandogma]

The simple answer is people.
anonymity of hiding behind a mic at home where you feel you can get away with trash talking a stranger online and be safe & get a weird satisfied kick by doing so.
Now everyone is purposefully avoiding it because 9 times out of 10 that's probably what's awaiting you unfortunately & most individuals with any sense will move on from it.

I used to think this way as well. When PUBG and the first few Call of Duty's came that I played at the time, the open chat was rife with slurs and generally children, angsty teenages and unhappy young adults just spewing toxic shit.

But lately I"ve been playing Arc Raiders, and I was aprehensive of the proximity chat but overall I've been pleasantly surprised. People are nice and will talk to you. Sometimes some asshole will camp at the extract, kill me, and to no ones surprise, they are those who have those same toxic behavior. But overall my experience with that game has restored my faith in humanity being civil enough to chat online in games again.

 

[JellyjamLu]

I used to think this way as well. When PUBG and the first few Call of Duty's came that I played at the time, the open chat was rife with slurs and generally children, angsty teenages and unhappy young adults just spewing toxic shit.

But lately I"ve been playing Arc Raiders, and I was aprehensive of the proximity chat but overall I've been pleasantly surprised. People are nice and will talk to you. Sometimes some asshole will camp at the extract, kill me, and to no ones surprise, they are those who have those same toxic behavior. But overall my experience with that game has restored my faith in humanity being civil enough to chat online in games again.

Yes you have a very valid point with ARC Raiders, I have heard similar things about it, Guess I have been burned too many times giving fellow gamers the benefit of the doubt.