Blizzard Voice Chat
Blizzard is testing voice chat in an alpha version of the Battle.Net application!

  • Group Chat allows you to create groups of up to 99 players
  • Voice Chat can be used in any chat channel
  • You can mute and control volume per individual

This article was originally published in forum thread: Blizzard Voice Chat started by chaud View original post
Comments 153 Comments
  1. Sandrox's Avatar
    Not this again.
  1. Cernunnos's Avatar
    Unless you can link vids directly into the chat I will probably still use discord though.

    But I get their reasoning for it though, it's not like people aren't running the program, adding additional functionality to it is a good idea. But unless it's better than alternative programs I cant see people actually using it, no matter how many people it fits in one channel.
  1. Kazuchika's Avatar
    After Blizzard's last foray into "voice chat" was a complete and utter fucking failure nah fam I'm good. I'll stick to Discord.
  1. mmoc5352742bc3's Avatar
    They forgot patch 2.2?
  1. Bareno's Avatar
    If this is as nice as the overwatch voip I'm actually excited for this, they have pretty nice quality on its voip.

    Ps, anyone know how to try this? Can't find an link for the 1.5 alpha bnet client
  1. mmocb1225c5eb7's Avatar
    People are already using other systems like vent or Ts. It is systems most people knows, and therefore uses. I seriously doubt anyone will be using this new old feature.
    A voice program for only blizzard games will not work.
    But.. I hope I will be proven wrong, hate to say something negative about new stuff...
    So perhaps I should say something like "lets rely on the feedback, and see if this isn't going to be good"
  1. syteless's Avatar
    I don't understand, how does one even get into a battle.net app alpha? As far as I know there isn't an account opt-in for it.
  1. mmocfcfd72621d's Avatar
    how can i activate this?
  1. Immitis's Avatar
    any chat? oh boy,

    mesa gones trolls trade chat
  1. Acidz's Avatar
    Early april fool's joke?
  1. IIamaKing's Avatar
    Oh This is a new idea, surly blizzard will get it right on the first try........
  1. maccajoe's Avatar
    Ffs people saying this shit wont work or whateva, it already works its called overwatch voice chat.
  1. nikolbolas's Avatar
    "Great News Everyone!! I have created a software not to be used by more than half of the playerbase ".
    #lessvoicechatmoreshadowpriesttuning!
    #shadowpriestunite
    #wewantoblivionback
  1. Dasn's Avatar
    le wow voice chat was bad a decade ago meme XD
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    It almost felt like I traveled back in time to patch 2.2. I used the old verson once, and never again.
  1. Stormykitten's Avatar
    As long as it's optional, since this is obviously aimed at HotS, Overwatch etc.
  1. Kryos's Avatar
    It's 2007 again!

    Patch 2.2.0

    Voice Chat - The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game. Players will need to go into the options menu under Sound & Voice to activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone, speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game audio when a voice communication is received), as is a “push-to-talk” setting. Right-clicking on a player’s name now includes the option to mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat and text chat from that player.
  1. Malfious's Avatar
    Isn't the WoW voice chat still a thing ingame? I know now one uses it but I remember seeing the options still there
  1. Flurryfang's Avatar
    I dont know why they keep trying to make this voice chat work? I have not yet heard of a game, which ingame voice has been a succes and not just a storm of yelling trolls and racists. There are still a lot of ingame programs who needs a rework much more then the voice chat.

    .... Like, who is even asking for this? We already have Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Large skype calls and now Discord. While updating the ingame voice chat is always a good thing, im not gonna complain about getting a new ingame tool, but i really dont think it is needed. So many guilds have already a TS/Vent servers set up and they are working very good.

    Without any ingame moderation of the voice chat, i dont see it being used by many teams.
  1. Arbs's Avatar
    Not gunna lie the Voice Chat is the same one from Overwatch & isn't terrible like the old voice chat was.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Kenjai View Post
    All these comments seem to forget the chat's already testable in Overwatch. The quality is actually really good and only hindered by the occasional crappy mic.
    Ya I really like it, I think it is a mixed of Discord implemented into Battle Net.

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