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Voice Chat to be introduced in WoW free of charge. I personally cannot see the point, plus it will as far as I can see raise more problems. For 2 plus years in PuGs I have managed very easily to communicate to others by typing as others have to me. In guild runs we've always had vent, as voice is faster than typing etc so yes voice offers an advantage.

However, I don't really wish to listen to other people being rude and abusive to someone as can be the case in 5man PuGs or even worse an Alliance BG. Ok you may well say mute the voice, will this mute my gameplay sound or just voices of other players, if it is the latter then I am likely to miss important information and the abuse, no gain in my eyes.

Secondly there is a profanity filter ingame on typed words what about the voice chat? Never ever going to happen is it, you protect the eyes yet you let it bypass that via the ears, pointless. Also don't Blizzard have an abusive policy where if someone is abused then Blizzard will ban them? Typed info can be recorded whereas I would find it hard for voice to be the same, will this lead to cases of 'crying wolf' or abusers getting away scot free? Simply leave could be your answer, why should those that are abusive get their say surely it should be those that don't that should stay and the abusive removed.

I've been in games online where they've had free voicecoms and personally found it quite unhelpful and abusive so I don't see why it needs to be introduced to WoW. There are voice comm products out there for when you need to speak to people, guild runs etc ie Vent and Teamspeak and if you really want small free VoIP then try Skype.

You've seen how rude and abusive these message boards can get, do we really wish to listen to it as well?

Lol can you imagine 40 man AV pug with this?

/shudders

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Lol can you imagine 40 man AV pug with this?

/shudders

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Very silent? with all the AFKers

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Lol can you imagine 40 man AV pug with this?

/shudders

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/cry

Will open up for countless "LOL noob healer/tank u suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
Can't wait.

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It will ruin the immersion.

I don't want to be reminded that I'm playing with screaming kiddies. I had enough of that on Halo 2.

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You will be able to turn it off. L2R

Erm???

Step 1 - Press Escape

Step 2 - Click Sound Option

Step 3 - Look for 'Enable voice chat'

Step 4 - Turn it off.

Do you really need to be told everything?

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Erm???

Step 1 - Press Escape

Step 2 - Click Sound Option

Step 3 - Look for 'Enable voice chat'

Step 4 - Turn it off.

Do you really need to be told everything?

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As I said in my post I am aware that it will be able to be turned it off, however turning it off surely removes the benefits of having it in the first place, like I said not hearing important information.

@ Cudamine: Ofc I cannot speak for the entire community since no one thinks the same, I'm merely raising my issues with it and does it infact solve more problems than it creates, ie is it worth doing. You clearly think it is and I would agree with you if it wasn't for the number of morons I meet in this game, have met in other games and will continue to meet.

Perhaps a better solution having thought about it and having used TS before is to mute the abusive player/players though how would this be controlled?

Yeah this topic, so new right now ¬_¬

/ignore <playername> will probably mute them on the voip for you too was the consensus I recall in:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=286871438&postId=2865867345&sid=1#0 .

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Just to get this straight: we add a feature which could be cool and useful in some situations, for free, which you can turn off whenever you want and it's still not good? Why do I get the feeing it just doesn't mater _what_ we do?

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Aeus, any and all content you add will either devalue prior content, make someone's parents ban them from the game or cause a nuclear meltdown which will engulf Paris and make the Louvre glow in the dark.

Duh.

Oh Jeez what exactly is your problem?
"If I have it it will suck :("
"If I turn it off I will not have it and this will suck :("
How the hell old are you?

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Just to get this straight: we add a feature which could be cool and useful in some situations, for free, which you can turn off whenever you want and it's still not good? Why do I get the feeing it just doesn't mater _what_ we do?

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And you are right. Everything you will add/remove/change/not change will get flamed and questioned with and without good arguments.

Good thing is that we will be able to swear and not getting reported ;) I think you lose here, Aeus.

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Just to get this straight: we add a feature which could be cool and useful in some situations, for free, which you can turn off whenever you want and it's still not good? Why do I get the feeing it just doesn't mater _what_ we do?

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Meh 8 million paying customers, we are happy. The whining is part of your job, at least you get paid for trolling the forums :p

Must been a good lunch between.