The fantasy MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online has a voice chat on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. And that is a problem, says our author Andreas Bertits.
The snorting of player A in the ear while player B is chewing… this creates a “unique” atmosphere in the console version of the MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online through the voice chat.
Playing an MMORPG on a console has at least one major disadvantage: it is barely possible to type in a chat with a controller in hand. That’s why people resort to voice chats. In the advertisement for TESO, Zenimax Online presents this very cool. It’s obvious that the scenes in the trailer are staged, which has also led to some mockery. Anyone who has played The Elder Scrolls Online with voice chat knows that the trailer is hardly further from reality.
The chaos in voice chat
In the voice chat, there is utter chaos and much reminds one of questionable 0190 phone numbers when you can only hear moaning and grunting. A lot of senseless babble and kids flipping out, screaming their anger into the chat, make it almost impossible to have even a semblance of a “normal” conversation with other players. Additionally, due to the megaserver architecture, players from different countries are playing in the fantasy world of Tamriel, which leads to a mishmash of different languages prevailing in the chat. So the voice chat is practically useless. For this reason, fans are now demanding a text chat. Because real MMORPG players connect a keyboard to the console whenever possible and that would make it possible to communicate via text messages.
The fact is: as the chat currently works on the console versions of The Elder Scrolls Online, it is hardly usable. Zenimax Online needs to take another look at this and come up with something, because for functional group play in an MMO, you need to be able to communicate properly with your fellow players.
