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Community Debate - What communication platforms do you use

    • 9115 posts
    January 28, 2021 1:23 AM PST

    Community Debate - What communication platforms do you use for gaming and why? #MMORPG #CommunityMatters

    • 2756 posts
    January 28, 2021 3:18 AM PST

    Discord. It's a good quality, flexible app with good support and common usage.

    Please don't bother with your own in-game, VR.  I don't actually want voice to be de facto with random groups.  It's often annoying.

    Using 3rd party helps to keep it elective and optional, so I can just use it with friends without feeling rude or left out when in PUGs.

    • 87 posts
    January 28, 2021 4:32 AM PST

    disposalist said:

    Discord. It's a good quality, flexible app with good support and common usage.

    Please don't bother with your own in-game, VR.  I don't actually want voice to be de facto with random groups.  It's often annoying.

    Using 3rd party helps to keep it elective and optional, so I can just use it with friends without feeling rude or left out when in PUGs.

     

    Discord, because of all points made by disposalist

    • 521 posts
    January 28, 2021 5:30 AM PST

    disposalist said:

    Discord. It's a good quality, flexible app with good support and common usage.

    Please don't bother with your own in-game, VR.  I don't actually want voice to be de facto with random groups.  It's often annoying.

    Using 3rd party helps to keep it elective and optional, so I can just use it with friends without feeling rude or left out when in PUGs.

     

    This 100%. 

    • 127 posts
    January 28, 2021 5:51 AM PST

    Discord!

    • 500 posts
    January 28, 2021 6:48 AM PST

    Agree with Disposalist !00%

    • 88 posts
    January 28, 2021 7:24 AM PST

    I use Discord.  Voice quality is good, lots of flexibility , text portion is great for linking info and in-game pictures when playing a game. In game overlay is good when using voice so u can tell who in grp is talking and not have to guess if you dont recognize their voice.

    • 3852 posts
    January 28, 2021 7:40 AM PST

    Typed chat. 

    • 287 posts
    January 28, 2021 8:42 AM PST

    how has no one mentioned AOL messenger yet?!?

    • 274 posts
    January 28, 2021 8:58 AM PST

    randomrob82 said:

    how has no one mentioned AOL messenger yet?!?

    IRC and ICQ or gtfo.

    • 394 posts
    January 28, 2021 9:02 AM PST

    Discord, because I can open it on my work PCs browser during the day.

    • 96 posts
    January 28, 2021 9:16 AM PST

    Agree with @Disposalist. Discord all the way and normally just with my friends; otherwise, I'll just type in chat.

    • 560 posts
    January 28, 2021 5:29 PM PST

    I use many including Discord but I prefer Guilded or Steam. I am fine if Pantheon has no built-in voice but at the same it would not bother me if there was. I manly would be concerned about spending resources reinventing the wheel.

    Guilded is my preferred and my reason for liking it over Discord or Steam is it can fill multiple roles all at once. It is not perfect but it can replace a guilds website and chat all in one.

    Built in

    1. Forums
    2. Calendar
    3. Voice
    4. Sub channels and whisper for voice
    5. Chat
    6. Groups

    There is more I like as well but the list gets long. If you have not checked it out, I suggest you do. It does everything Discord dose and a lot more.


    This post was edited by Susurrus at January 28, 2021 5:29 PM PST
    • 2419 posts
    January 28, 2021 6:34 PM PST

    Kilsin said:

    Community Debate - What communication platforms do you use for gaming and why? #MMORPG #CommunityMatters

    Discord.  Text chat, voice communication, hyper linking, video sharing...what's not to like about it?  It does pretty much everything.

    • 220 posts
    January 28, 2021 6:41 PM PST

    Text.

    • 341 posts
    January 28, 2021 7:42 PM PST

    Discord , it's the modern mmo standard for competitive gamers for the reasons already mentioned.

    • 817 posts
    January 28, 2021 8:21 PM PST

    Discord is the easiest to use and most common, but I really enjoyed Ventrillo.  You could have private hot keys to send comms to select groups and individuals.  It was glorious.  Raid chat - main synergy person (for instance MT and OT) - friend to heckle.  Three different push to talk keys.  The simplicity of discord lost something great. 

    • 254 posts
    January 28, 2021 9:27 PM PST
    The best voice chat participation and in guild banter I've ever experienced was with EQ2's built in VC. But the quality was poor and had issues. For most games I use discord.
    • 229 posts
    January 28, 2021 10:11 PM PST

    disposalist said:

    Discord. It's a good quality, flexible app with good support and common usage.

    Please don't bother with your own in-game, VR.  I don't actually want voice to be de facto with random groups.  It's often annoying.

    Using 3rd party helps to keep it elective and optional, so I can just use it with friends without feeling rude or left out when in PUGs.

     

    This. Close the thread. 

    • 264 posts
    January 29, 2021 2:14 PM PST

    Text Chat. 

    • 117 posts
    January 29, 2021 4:10 PM PST

    Edited 


    This post was edited by Vixx at January 29, 2021 6:28 PM PST
    • 334 posts
    January 30, 2021 3:39 PM PST

    Discord is standard these days, but I do wish we could get an updated/modern version of TeamSpeak with some of the features of Discord but with the controls that would allow for more privacy. That'd be worth paying for. Concerning in-game voice, I don't think it's a necessary or worthwhile effort to implement, especially with the popularity of Discord these days and its ease of use. If groups want to hop into voice, we can easily send out a Discord invite.

    • 117 posts
    February 1, 2021 5:08 AM PST

    If you go with the stance that we dont need ingame every one can download discord VR should start looking for parters in the data selling game. If discord becomes a player driven requiment only thouse who are ok with being data mined will pay and play anyways. 

    PS

    It will help with the cash shop need aswell. 

    Not trying to be negitive I use discord.  Think its great, dont join public servers but thats me. Just stating the fact I use free stuff know anything i do on pc is not safe from data mining. Why not use some of that corprate billions to keep VR running.


    This post was edited by Vixx at February 1, 2021 5:32 AM PST
    • 531 posts
    February 12, 2021 5:15 PM PST

    Text chat. Sometimes Discord or team speak for listening guild/party leaders commands.

    • 99 posts
    February 12, 2021 6:09 PM PST

    Text chat + Discord.

    Pantheon doesn't need an in-game VOIP service running, plz divert resources to other more important features thx <3