In games like Destiny or CS:GO for example, you should not even be allowed to start the activity without a working microphone. I dont care if you are antisocial, if that’s the case, those activaties aren’t for you and you shouldn’t bring down your entire team because of that.
As an clarification, I’m more worried about Raids than PVP
And what about a raid? You only stated your opinion regarding a PvP FPS game.
Destiny raids, but another is FFXIV, I did Omega awhile back and that is impossible without communication
Wouldn’t you wanna do that stuff with a guild anyway?
Never played FFXIV but from my other mmo experiences, pugging any harder content is hell anyway.
I’ve played FFXIV some though never got to the real high end content like Omega. In general that games has one of the better PUG scenes and I could see it being doable for high end and have heard from some doing it on occasion when their guild raid groups don’t have room.
The game has a player mentor system that actively encourages teaching others and collaborating and, at least in my experience, it works. You’ll occasionally still come across toxic of course but even they often get shouted down by the other mentors. This leaks out into most other parts of the game in a positive way and can sometimes make grinding harder raids fine because they just accept it as a teaching moment.
(Keep in mind I’m speaking about my one server only, not the 30 others, you’re mileage may vary. And I’m not talking about the weird erotic roleplay world that has also sprung up in that game.)
Weird how this is an actual unpopular opinion, entirely fitting within this community, and it’s getting downvoted.
These kind of “upvote what you disagree with” communities never work out. Never has on Reddit either.
never
sorta untrue. one strategy i have seen work out well is to have an automated comment pinned that says “upvote this comment if you think this post is unpopular” and then moderation is done using that data while regular posts votes are pretty much left to be as they are. unsure if lemmy is capable of these things yet tho which is the roadblock here.
So people with speach or hearing issues should not be allowed to play a game? Parents who just got their kids to sleep?
THIS a thousand times. World of Warcraft became dead to me when it implemented voice chat in the game’s client. I can’t hear well enough for voice chat and while I can speak just fine, I refuse to buy peripherals so that the hearies can feel superior with their lack of environmental awareness.
@OP needs to check their privilege.
I played with a person for months in overwatch before I heard their voice. It was because she enjoyed playing with my friends and I and was afraid that we would get all weird when we learned her gender. Thankfully my friends and I aren’t dickheads so it all worked out. We continue to play games to this day even, just not overwatch because it sucks and fuck blizzard.
I agree, that this is an unpopular opinion, however i don’t agree with it.
Too many ppl are just annoying, when the mic is open. Too many ppl just cant use a mic for whatever reason.
Also sometimes it is affecting your team, sometimes it is affecting the other team, so “bringing down your entire team” will even out over time.
But its less fun with a mic
