There are cases where I ask someone to play something like TF2 and don’t wanna voice chat and I don’t get that, like it makes me feel like we’re not even interacting at all.
There are cases where I ask someone to play something like TF2 and don’t wanna voice chat and I don’t get that, like it makes me feel like we’re not even interacting at all.
Oh man I’d never play games where voice was a requirement, other than couch co-op.
My early mmo gaming in my 20s was with wow and guild or pug vent servers and that was mostly ok because if you knew what you were doing as a support character you didn’t need to participate in the chats (my main was a holy priest, so as long as nobody died I didn’t need vent at all). My guild was accommodating, and had several deaf members, so voice wasn’t a big push for us.
I was a raid leader and the main healer of my guild and I did not ever talk on voice chat because I couldn’t be bothered to set up my mic and nobody cared. We were casual, but I mean yeah, it’s a game for fun.
I have absolutely no interest in exposing myself to public servers, or even anything less curated than guild servers, even as temporary as pug chats. I don’t play online games if voice chat is needed.
It might be a you problem if you don’t feel connected with someone making the time to play with you because it’s not your preferred way.