Poll: Do you use a mic while gaming?

[jackpackage200]

I used to but i grew out of it. I had had enough of being yelled at by children and teenagers.

 

[Jamster003]

I do, but never on public servers. I only use my mic on teamspeak/skype when playing games with friends.

 

[Richardplex]

With my friends only, why give myself unnecessary grief?

 

[Comando96]

I do when there is either another person on my team on FT2... or my team are a load of dumb shits and I need to coordinate our team Total War style. I'm polite... just giving orders that will provide victory

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I always use a mic. It's gotten to the point that I have a hard time going back to older, pre-voice over IP games, because these days I tend to stick to team based modes, and you can't really coordinate anything with text. I'd probably play some more old fashioned deathmatch, but the games that did that well are even older than the ones I was just complaining about, and tend to have dead online modes as a result. The notable exception being the original Quake, which I really need to get around to purchasing one of these days.

 

[The Lugz]

public servers can go stuff, i make my own with hamachi + skype

and i use a high quality shotgun mic to do it just to make sure i'm being heard

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

i play a lot of l4d 2 team work is what you need in that game so talking to each other is important. also seeing how the only time i ever really need to leave my home is for college its about the only time i talk to people

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Yep, I usually have a private skype channel running with my friends and then use the in-game voice when I need to speak to someone else.

 

[Voulan]

I don't have a mic to even use while playing. But if I did have one, I'd imagine I would actually use it.

 

[Jadak]

never have and never will. being female and a gamer last thing i want is to attract the attention of people. which my id's almost always tend to be gender neutral.

Almost indeed...Nikki isn't exactly neutral

On topic, no. I have no interest in actually speaking to people while I play games.

 

[Fishyash]

I'm almost always on skype when I am playing games. When playing street fighter on PC it's pretty nice too, everyone's usually pretty nice.

 

[Merkavar]

i use one when i need to like when im raiding or asked to by guild members t normally when i play im listening to misic or watching tv.

like vent or TS so i can mute loud mouth kids

 

[Layz92]

I am yet another person who only really uses mic chat with their friends. Not worth the effort 90% of the time otherwise.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Nope. Microphone is a big no-no for me. My english is very bad and even people around me consider my accent "unnatural".

 

[Wonderland]

Nope. I do not even own a mircrophone. XD

 

[Trucken]

Never on public Xbox Live. It used to be good, but it's turned into a hellhole. Always use it when playing with friends though.

 

[Nouw]

Rarely. I only use it with friends or clan-mates on party.

 

[Batou667]

Sometimes.

Also, how annoying is it when somebody in your game has a full-volume coversation with somebody IRL without muting their mic first? I don't care what you're having for dinner, talk about the game or not at all.

Reminds me of a video..

http://youtu.be/pfwOqlnCKQs