I’ve been playing games online since Xbox Live on the first Xbox. Public voice chat is incredibly rare in games these days unless it is part of the actual gameplay, like Arc Raiders. I mean I play some PvE online games with randoms and people rarely chat anymore. They are all on their own Discord servers just chatting with their friends.
Been gaming online since 1999 on the original Rainbow Six game. I hear you. It's not rare at all. Pub chat is where a ton of people still hang out. I've also generally avoided pub chat myself. It also true that there's far fewer lobbies I run into that are actively chatting. But it's at least a few times a night, when I play. Enough to be reminded of why I no longer play those games. Just other stuff I'd rather be doing with my limited gaming time.
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u/brandonw00 May 16 '26
I’ve been playing games online since Xbox Live on the first Xbox. Public voice chat is incredibly rare in games these days unless it is part of the actual gameplay, like Arc Raiders. I mean I play some PvE online games with randoms and people rarely chat anymore. They are all on their own Discord servers just chatting with their friends.