Most of the Nintendo audience were upset when we heard the news about Splatoon having no voice chat online. Mario Kart 8 was perfectly fine without Voice chat because it's a racing game, and we don't need to hear 11 other players voices online. But an online MULTIPLAYER not having voice chat?! At first I didn't mind it at first because the game was so much fun! But later after awhile it got boring because it was the same old thing.... Voice chat really helps making online multiplayer feel like new. I only play Splatoon once every 2 weeks just for 20 minutes then I get bored and play something else. Having no voice chat also made the mulitplayer stressful at times because you can't communicate with your teammates AT ALL.  When I blast up in the air and come straight down, I get killed... this would be VERY useful for voice chat to help me "Hey protect me, I'm coming over to you!". I give Splatoon a  7 out of 10. If it had voice chat, I would give it a 9 out of 10. Nintendo really messed up by not putting voice chat. Shame....  

Honestly this is your teammates' faults. When a teammate is super jumping to my position it makes a distinct sound and an obvious mark on the ground. It's very clear what's happening. Nobody has to tell me one of my teammates is jumping in. At that point I have two options: ignore it and press forward, or hang back to give them some coverage. Your teammates are doing the former and the ability to speak to them probably wouldn't change that.

But, there's nothing wrong with wanting voice chat, anyway.

So, Hatsune Miku > Splatoon?

Splatoon not having voice chat isn't an issue for me. I used to be an frequent player of Call of Duty and the only time I actually used the voice chat feature is when I was playing with a friend or group of friends, which didn't happen often. Also, when I do play nowadays I mute most of the other players anyways because they became annoying and would said some vile things that I really didn't want to listen to while playing the game. So, I can see why Nintendo decided to keep that feature out of the game. However, if someone does play Splatoon with friends online all of the time I can see where it would be helpful and fun.

Wow people are still upset about this?

1. Don't say there is no way to communicate AT ALL, because there are ways, be they good or bad . Try tapping the D-Pad.

2. I don't understand how voice chat will help you in a situation where you're squid jumping. If someone is close enough to help, they'll do so by killing the enemy regardless of whether you're coming down or not. If they aren't close enough, then tough luck. You're f*cked. 

I don't have an issue with voice chat in this game, but I understand why people turn away because of it

No voice chat> 11 year olds making "your mom jokes" and calling you faggot anytime you mess up

Yeah, I can get if some people get upset over no vc for Splatoon, though it doesn't really bother me. I never really found a need for it, and I'm not really crazy for vc anyways. If anything, Ninten is prolly doing me a favor, otherwise I would be cursing at my allies, haha...

Which is why having a robust chat feature on consoles should've been a day 1 thing (they should've just made a deal w/ either teamspeak or ventrilo).  I know, I beat this dead horse quite often, but having control over your gaming experience > waiting for these companies to deal with shitty people.   It's like expecting WoW admins to do something about a gold farmer immediately, whereas, on my old CoD UO/2 servers, when people were hacking, you were either caught by Punkbuster and added to the master ban list (immediately), or manually banned and your IP reported to PB (a little longer, but still dealt with permanently.  You don't come off the PB Master Ban list).

W/ Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo backing them, PB could've been an all encompassing tool to literally shut out douchebags from public servers (allowing them to still be dicks privately to each other).  But noooooo, gotta monetize everything, give half-assed products and make people shy away from certain types of games.  So fucking stupid.

Also: Allow users to create their own servers, and give out access to friends/family and other people they come across who are align with your behavioral expectations. (Even with 2 CoD servers in the house, I still went out and played on public servers from time to time). You think CoD is bad?  Just go pop into the loading room for H1Z1 sometime, that is, by far, the most insanely vile gaming experience I've ever observed.