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Battle.Net Voice Chat
It looks like Voice Chat might be coming to the Battle.Net client. An upcoming build has references to Vivox, a company that produces voice chat for games. It is in use already in Eve, World of Tanks, The Elder Scrolls Online, H1Z1, Star Trek Online, Second Life, and many other games. As always, this is just a possibility and nothing is guaranteed! Sometimes features are planned but just don't work out.



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Poll - Voice Chat
Assuming it works as well as it does in the other games that already have integrated it, would you use Battle.Net voice chat?



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This article was originally published in forum thread: Battle.Net Voice Chat, Blizzcon Engineering Panel Update, Oct 19 Hotfixes, Final Boss started by chaud View original post
Published on 2015-10-20 03:51 AM
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  1. Fawkess's Avatar
    Damn that Engineering panel, really wanted to watch that
    Really hope they make a good voice chat and not like the Wow version
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Riptor View Post
    Damn that Engineering panel, really wanted to watch that
    Really hope they make a good voice chat and not like the Wow version
    Meh I can't say the same tbh. The whole server/technical side of a game doesn't interest me personally. It's cool to glance at though so I can imagine your frustration there. As for voice chat after BC voice chat I just think this will be another thing no one uses since there is already good voice software out there such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak, Mumble and Raidcall.
  1. Fawkess's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleccybubb View Post
    Meh I can't say the same tbh. The whole server/technical side of a game doesn't interest me personally. It's cool to glance at though so I can imagine your frustration there. As for voice chat after BC voice chat I just think this will be another thing no one uses since there is already good voice software out there such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak, Mumble and Raidcall.
    It will probably be more a friends thing like when your playing heroes or overwatch
  1. Mazzic518's Avatar
    Ugh. WHY? ...
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Riptor View Post
    It will probably be more a friends thing like when your playing heroes or overwatch
    Exactly but we have the other well known voice software for that. Not dismissing it outright but tbh I expect it to go the way of WoW's voice chat.
  1. JV Chequer's Avatar
    Voice Chat to WOW it's useless but to Heroes or Overwatch are pretty much welcome.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mazzic518 View Post
    Ugh. WHY? ...
    Ugh why what?
  1. Mazzic518's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleccybubb View Post
    Ugh why what?
    Who ARE you?

    and also :

    Ugh why to the needless addition of voice chat.
  1. ablib's Avatar
    If the WoW voice chat is simple, and decent, it will be the other clients that will die. The area for Blizzard to shine will be in simplicity.

    There is nothing simple about any other voice chat for a novice. If it's built into the launcher, it's already installed and they will likely only need to mess with a couple of check boxes.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mazzic518 View Post
    Who ARE you?

    and also :

    Ugh why to the needless addition of voice chat.
    Erm I'm Eleccybubb who are you? . Also I agree with you on this. We have decent ones already.
  1. Fawkess's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ablib View Post
    If the WoW voice chat is simple, and decent. It's the other clients that will die. The area for Blizzard to shine will be in simplicity.

    There is nothing simple about any other voice chat for a novice. If it's built into the launcher, it's already installed and they will likely only need to mess with a couple of check boxes.
    Thats basically why i love steam voice chat
    Its easy to use and Its pretty decent AND its already built into steam
  1. MakeMeLaugh's Avatar
    So, instead of making a battle.net app for mobiles, we get voice chat for it. WTF?!
  1. Fawkess's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MakeMeLaugh View Post
    So, instead of making a battle.net app for mobiles, we get voice chat for it. WTF?!
    Why would you need an app for your phone in the first place?
    You cant play games on it except hearthstone
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Riptor View Post
    Why would you need an app for your phone in the first place?
    You cant play games on it except hearthstone
    And if you wanted to add WoW time then you could just open a browser and as for chatting with friends well facebook or the WoW app for guildies.
  1. Lockula's Avatar
    I guess it would be quite helpful for overwatch and hots. For anything else I see people probably just staying with what they use all ready, or giving the new thing a try. So it might be good or not as good. Granted it can't be much worse then the one that is all ready in game.
  1. Gorgodeus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleccybubb View Post
    Meh I can't say the same tbh. The whole server/technical side of a game doesn't interest me personally. It's cool to glance at though so I can imagine your frustration there. As for voice chat after BC voice chat I just think this will be another thing no one uses since there is already good voice software out there such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak, Mumble and Raidcall.
    Raidcall is Russian only now.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lockula View Post
    I guess it would be quite helpful for overwatch and hots. For anything else I see people probably just staying with what they use all ready, or giving the new thing a try. So it might be good or not as good. Granted it can't be much worse then the one that is all ready in game.
    This is Blizzard right now



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    Quote Originally Posted by Gorgodeus View Post
    Raidcall is Russian only now.
    Oh I see. I only really use TS but I've heard of the others.
  1. Noix's Avatar
    blizzard at one point had voice chat ingame, only when you parted, then it was gone.. but if i remember correctly it was horrible.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Noix View Post
    blizzard at one point had voice chat ingame, only when you parted, then it was gone.. but if i remember correctly it was horrible.
    It wasn't horrible. It was just poorly implemented and the other ones were just better at the time.
  1. Heartattaq's Avatar
    If it is as good as 3rd party voip's and doesnt causes less or about the same hit to performance, I would have no issue using it, to have one less program open
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