Time to mute Voice Chat for good.

[MotoRacer]

I play Rocket League on a regular basis. The game is fun, simple, addicting, etc. But all the while, I can't say I ever get competitive where blind anger or anything surfaces. I mean, it's a game about RC car soccer. If you get a bad team mate, it can get frustrating, but who cares.. you move on. Miss a shot? Who cares, move on. Lose by one point in over time? Who cares, move on.

 

Yet, every time I play, I always get people over voice chat or text chat cursing, and slamming people with the most vile insults I've ever heard. Don't get me wrong, I know this is common with online gaming, but it is extremely concerning how quickly and almost out of nowhere this comes about. Some of the most vile, and personal insults, and the match hasn't even technically begun. It's not even a competitive game, really. How can you take it seriously? It's not a war simulator. It's freakin RC cars with a helium filled soccer ball!

 

If you play half a game and get frustrated, while I don't condone it, at least there's a reason to get upset. But right at the beginning of the game, calling people every thing in the book, even going so far as having arguments with people over seemingly nothing right at the beginning of the match. I don't get it. It's frankly very disturbing, as it doesn't seem like remotely believable normal behavior, and yet every time I'm online, I find another user like this.

 

I get it, it's the internet, but I just can't understand the mentality of it all. How do you become so enraged to the point where you scream over a mic at someone you don't even know, belittling them and berating them before the match even begins? They even try to argue with the rational person as if them being calm and collected is wrong. I can't wrap my head around it. It's honestly a bit depressing that when humans aren't regulated, this seems to be a majority's natural behavior.

 

They'll pay for it one day, of course, it's just something that boggles my mind. What's the worst is that I'd guess the average age of these people is 30. So they're not even children who are trying to talk big. These are grown men. Really just makes me want to distance myself from the "gamer" branding completely. No wonder people don't respecting video games as a medium when this is what trash makes up our community.

 

 

[Jess Ragan]

People constantly complain that there's no voice chat in Splatoon. The hell with that! I prefer the game without it. My own profanity is plenty, thanks.

[MotoRacer]

People constantly complain that there's no voice chat in Splatoon. The hell with that! I prefer the game without it. My own profanity is plenty, thanks.

 

I never had a problem without VC in Splatoon, and I agree with them not including it for public use.

 

What I disagree with is the lack of VC for friends. Communication, be it in Splatoon or Rocket League, makes you so much better and efficient. On a PC, it's easy to have Skype on in the background with both voice and game audio coming through a headset. But with the Wii U, it's quite a bit more complicated....

[Flojomojo]

I haven't put on a voice chat headset in over a decade now. I don't play much online, and when I do, I don't need to hear the "professionals" and all the naughty words they just learned. Especially when many of them sound like Slippy Toad.

 

I used to think it would be amazing to have massively multiplayer sessions with full voice chat ...but I wasn't considering the rest of humanity. Nope not for me.

[Carbon Tiger]

(snip)

 

They'll pay for it one day, of course, it's just something that boggles my mind. What's the worst is that I'd guess the average age of these people is 30. So they're not even children who are trying to talk big. These are grown men. Really just makes me want to distance myself from the "gamer" branding completely. No wonder people don't respecting video games as a medium when this is what trash makes up our community.

 

 

 

I don't want to come off as preachy but I'm also getting sick of people like this.

 

These are people who have gotten way too much into somebody else's marketing plan. I've long since divorced myself from any kind of label created by a board room to sell me incremental updates to system hardware. I just buy games because I enjoy them I didn't sign up to be a part of a loud screeching increasingly socially maladjusted hoard of maturity devoid nitwits.

 

However, others use it to define themselves as a person because sadly they have little else to hang their hat on aside from empty consumer purchases. Doesn't matter what the consumer purchase is mind you defining yourself by the things you buy is never healthy. Its the same reason that a lot of gaming's loudest 'professional' hobbyist can't handle what amounts to media study 101 of their hobby. Any criticism of a thing they bought is a personal attack it is shockingly immature and borderline crazy.

 

I think it points to a deeper emotional problem with a lot of these people that likely has a multitude of causes. But I'll say this the day a person is yelling ethnic or sexual slurs at someone they've never met over a car soccer game would be the the day they should find a new hobby or stop going online because something has gone very very wrong with how the relate to society at large.

Edited May 1, 2016 by Carbon Tiger

[MotoRacer]

Last paragraph was very well put. I totally agree.

[leods]

I mostly also have bad enough experiences with voice chat that I just disable it. Randoms can be dicks.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I don't use voice chat ever in online games, and I honestly wish online games either didn't have it or at the very least had teams if moderators listening in to boot people from the game if they start spewing foul language. I just don't see how listening to a kid, or an adult who acts like a kid, seeing how many ethnic or sexual slurs they can yell in a 30 second period could possibly improve the gameplay experience for... well, anything! For that reason I've always been a big supporter of Nintendo's decision to leave voice chat out of their online games.

 

I also completey agree with Carbon Fiber's assessment of the situation, and that the problem of people behaving badly online definitely speaks to a larger societal issue. There's a lot of people out there who seem to think that it doesn't matter what they say or do on online because they see it as separate from real life and a place where there are no consequences for their actions. But that isn't entiely true, because while you may not lose your job for acting like a sexist bigoted mongoloid online it still makes you a person without integrity; and a pretty poor reflection of our species as a whole. I'd like to think that having to live with and go to sleep every night with the knowledge that they're a bad person will catch up with them eventually, but maybe I'm just an optimist.

[Mord]

Only time I've ever used voice chat in games was when the person I'm playing with is a close friend or relative. (Then again that's pretty much the only time I've done multiplaying at all - well, on consoles at least.

[TPA5]

I tend to dislike "people" (i.e the unwashed masses), so I have never once used voice-chat in a game. I feel that if I did, it would turn me even more misanthropic than I already am.

[cimerians]

They'll pay for it one day, of course, it's just something that boggles my mind.

 

 

I'm on Rocket League all the time (PS4) although I have yet to play a game with you.....my laziness to fire up the PC version and get passed pro.

 

It's a sports game and in sports if you haven't played them growing up (I played almost everything through high school in the 80's) there's a lot of trash talking that goes on. Stuff you don't want to hear but it happens.

 

I ignore them and never turn on voicechat unless its for people I normally play with. Basically don't sweat it and just mute those idiots. Better yet, kick their butts. That always shuts them up.

[Tempest]

I don't think I've ever used voice chat in a game. The last online game I played was FF XI and that was all text chat only (which worked perfectly IMHO). I stay away from modern online games for just this reason.

[NE146]

pfffft. All I know is my experience, I literally have solid multi-DAYS worth of Call of Duty online multiplayer under my belt, several hours alone just the past few days. Obviously the much maligned and hugely popular game Call of Duty on a console like the XBOX One is ground zero for online assholes right? WRONG..

 

I almost NEVER hear anyone in the game, I can play dozens of online games before I hear a peep from someone with a mic. As a matter of fact when I do hear people talking, or even bitching and cussing I love it because it's such a rarity and adds something extra to the game I normally don't get .. especially if people are shouting.

 

But again.. doesn't happen often.

Edited May 9, 2016 by NE146

[MotoRacer]

 

 

Better yet, kick their butts. That always shuts them up.

 

I love it when that happens, though it pisses me off when they are significantly better than me and trounce me, haha. Ah well, they'll get theirs someday.

[omegadot]

It's been a while since I heard nasty stuff online. I tend not to play on random servers on PC and on XBone people rarely talk when I play.

 

The text chat in dota/dota 2 and league of legends was awful when I played that.

[godslabrat]

 

I love it when that happens, though it pisses me off when they are significantly better than me and trounce me, haha. Ah well, they'll get theirs someday.

 

 

This.

[SSG]

I almost quit modern gaming because of all the nonsense people say in chat.

[JamesD]

I think I have only ever played one game with voice chat enabled. It was pretty obvious what the experience is going to be like.

[MotoRacer]

 

 

This.

 

Thank you . That made my night. It's so true, especially when they call you a virgin faggot... as your wife is sitting on the sofa with you. If you try to reason with them, it's like talking to a 5 year old. They'll just repeat what you say in a derpy voice.