Guild Wars 2

I see this word e-sport being thrown around all the time. Isn’t it kind of crucial for an e-sport to have VOIP? There is way too much going on to type in chat. Map pinging is OK in a MOBA but there are way too many moving parts in a tpvp game in GW2 for a ping to be descriptive enough to be worthwhile.

Trading vent/TS/mumble/skype (whatever) info with every random group I decide to tpvp with is ridiculous. Games like Heroes of Newerth and Dota 2 pull of VOIP perfectly. Why not pull a page from their book?

Sometimes I feel like I have a good team for my pug. But we lose to a team who isn’t as good as we are because they are able to react faster and respond to objectives with no delay of having to type.

I’m strictly talking about tpvp. Could care less about hearing people troll in spvp. And before people start saying well people will troll/harrass, that’s what mute/ignore is for.

TL;DR I shouldn’t be penalized for not having a premade team if my friends aren’t on. If I random into a group with 4 other skilled players we should not lose a game because we have to type in chat.

Two perfectly equal skilled teams play a game one with voice the other without. The team with voice will win 100% of the time.

I also thought about that, but then I realized this probably is not a very realistic wish. Dota 2 is made by Valve who are known for their polished high quality products while GW2 is made by ANet and well… they not even manage to get their bugs fixed in a reasonable time frame…

If the game becomes a serious e-sport with proper matchmaking premades are irrelevant. If you are in you are in a high skill bracket so will everyone else on your team. VOIP will make a difference. More than half the games now are determined by which team is using microphones. Plain and simple.

The game is 80% timing and communication. Playing the classes is easy. This game more than any other MMO because it has such a small list of available abilities compared to other MMOs.

I would also love to see this implemented. It would make solo queuing bearable.

“If the game becomes a serious e-sport with proper matchmaking premades are irrelevant”

You what..?

Premades are integral to any e-sport game that is not single player, obviously. You are not going to enter a serious level of 5v5 play solo, and hope you get good teammates.

NETL;SDR this is NOT a prerequisite of GW2 becoming an e-sports game. There are many, far more important features to be implemented, but this isn’t one.

Yes, it would be nice to communicate with pugs easily, but considering the scale of what you propose, I’d imagine ANET will take quite a while to even come round to having it on the suggestions board.

Yes, I agree in this day of age any E-Sport contenders should have native VOIP. It would suit tPvP perfectly, and even WvW would be better. It boggles my mind that XBox Live integrated VOIP for many of its games several years ago, but PC developers are still in the stone age when it comes to native VOIP. Most games are less inclined to install a dozen different VOIP clients (Skype, TS, Mumble, Vent, etc.). PC developers would be smart to realize this and integrate their own VOIP. Hell, you can still use Mumble behind the scenes.

I don’t think we’ll ever see it for GW2 though. ArenaNet is pretty slow on the E-Sport ball.

I would love to hear the tears of my opponents (in sPVP)

I would love to hear the tears of my opponents (in sPVP)

Although we can cross-communicate by text in sPvP, VOIP should obviously be made team-only. We don’t need immature XBox Live bickering back and forth. Waste of bandwidth.

Saying it’s too much work is a cop out. If busted Xbox Live can have VOIP on every game they have I’m pretty sure GW2 can too. It’s a PC game made in 2012 not an Xbox game made in 2002.

Times are a changin. Try to keep up.