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
In a perfect world, I completely agree with you. Unfortunately the majority of the online competitive games I have played voice chat consists of one dude giving helpful call outs while everyone else bitches and complains about why that dude sucks and their call outs suck. And even if it goes well it usually crumbles into a blame game by the halfway point. The only way I have ever been able to successfully grind a competitive game without losing my fucking mind is to just have friends to play with as we hang out in our own chat and mute the other teammates.
I truly understand where you are coming from. And that’s exactly why I don’t play competitive anymore.
Not to mention that women are consistently sexually harassed in games, and leaving the mic off allows them to remain gender ambiguous
Play any game how you want to play.
Play single player games how you want, play competitive games to win
Its a video game. Just have fun man. If you get this upset cos you lose then you weren’t having fun.
I don’t care whether you have a mic or not.
All I ask is that if you’re going to have a microphone, set it up so it doesn’t continuously transmit the TV in the background. That’s just rude.
Here’s an unpopular opinion: if you think your teammates not having voice chat are holding you back… You are the reason your team is losing.
I don’t think you understand - a core part of D2 raid mechanics is players needing to quickly and effectively share information with each other.
It’s things like player A needs to tell player B which of 5 buttons to press.
It’s possible to do this communication via the in-game text chat, but there’s a lot of reasons why voice chat is much more effective.
I’ve played games competitively over a broad range of genres. I understand voice chat can be a boon, however it just as frequently is a distraction - especially with a pug.
It’s generally a wash. I’ve seen OPs opinion expressed in many forms directed at voice chat, certain loadouts, need for mods, etc. It’s misdirected blame.
Suggesting that the problem is following him game to game simply highlights that he himself is the common factor. Self improvement will always provide better results.
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.
Agree, just let the voting buttons work as intended. The onus of inversion is always on the interpretation not on the people casting the votes. The best posts on this community should be in the ones in the negative.
So people with speach or hearing issues should not be allowed to play a game? Parents who just got their kids to sleep?
People who also just don’t want to be called slurs by toxic team mates
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.
