Poll: Do you use a mic while gaming?

[King of Wei]

Not usually but have been getting into it a bit more with dead island. Kinda hard to help people when you can't talk to them.

 

[Nuuu]

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

I was thinking of this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SswRzpR3JUc

I use my mic on public servers, but only after i get a bit used to the community, i'm a bit shy.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

When I had and used XBL-Gold I did. I liked talking to team members and whatnot but since I dropped back to silver I've retired my mic. The other times I play multiplayer it's split-screen so no mic required.

 

[alandavidson]

It depends on the game. I use a mic to communicate with teammates in co-op, or in a team-based game. Other than that, no.

 

[Discord]

I do, but I found making any noise, cough or sneeze leaves me open for insult and scorn. I would say the mute button and simply not using the damn thing would be the best course of action but If I did that I would of missed out on the rare times I meet some cool and interesting people online, woman and men.

 

[Izzy Arnold]

I do for RE5 and L4D2 type online games. Otherwise, nope.

 

[Crazy]

Of course, I need an easy way to communicate on Xbox Live.

 

[No_Remainders]

With my friends and never any other time. Ever.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

I tend to only use it when i'm playing with friends.

 

[Something Amyss]

When playing with friends, yes.

When playing with randoms? No.

 

[Johann610]

On TF2 it's pretty much necessary, but yeah, I shut it off in public servers...no one is listening. Spiral Knights has a lot of "open mic", and you don't know if you've been muted, so I learned to run tactics without speech after a few tries.

 

[FreakSheet]

On Team Fortress 2, yes. The people are usually nice, and it can be helpful to tell the medic to uber now, or warn someone of a spy.