World of Warcraft had many, many bad ideas. We look back on some of these bad features today.
In more than 20 years, Blizzard developers have tried a lot in World of Warcraft. Sometimes popular features have been slightly changed, sometimes new features have been implemented that failed. And sometimes even innovations were brought to Azeroth, the vast majority of which never heard – because they were so immature or even a really bad alternative to existing things.
We take a look back at the 5 most unpopular features that failed in World of Warcraft.
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The first voice chat in World of Warcraft
The fact that games often come along with their own voicechat has long been the standard in multiplayer games. However, this was not always the case, especially not back then at the time of the “old” World of Warcraft.
So it was already a small sensation when Blizzard built an in-game voice chat with Patch 2.2 that guilds and raid groups were able to use to discuss and coordinate in dungeons or slaughterhouse.
Well, at least in theory.
The feature failed. Not only was the “Voice Over IP” variant, which was installed in World of Warcraft, absolutely bad underground-it was also no well received by the community.
At that time, programs such as Teamspeak 2 or Ventrilo were very popular and were usually used by most guilds. Since the quality of the voice chat was significantly better here than in World of Warcraft and the use of these programs was long established. Nobody wanted to switch to a qualitatively inferior variant just because that was now possible in the game.
Therefore, it is also not surprising that the first voicechat of World of Warcraft had been forgotten again with the release.
By the way: With this graphic, the feature was advertised at the time. At that time “Rick Rolling” was still fashionable:
Only with patch 8.0, i.e. the publication of Battle for Azeroth, did Blizzard revise the Voice Chat again and better installed it into the whole Battle.net environment, so that it also works outside the game.
The voice chat in WoW is not really popular either-but there are (at least rumor!) Some guilds and raids who sometimes make use of it-in contrast to the first version of the Voice Chat.