Voice chat with friends can be added. I don't really care because I can use Skype. Voice chat with randoms I care even less about, I'd never turn it on. I also suspect that voice chat would add strain to the online connection.
I think Western gamers are used to playing games that are played almost entirely in the Americas and the UK. Their expectation for a game like this would be to communicate with the other players. But this is a global game, at the time being probably half of its players don't speak English (at least not very well). This is part of a little phenomenon I call... Western Privilege.
| Mummelmann said: Isn't it rather likely that longer modes and matches will roll out eventually? I find it hard to believe that they'll restrict everything to only 3 minutes in the long run (pun intended). As for screaming and swearing on the voice chat; do they think that the pre-teen boys playing Call of Duty and Counterstrike: GO will be playing this? If so, I think they're sorely mistaken. Also, like I said, one thing is that voice chat is missing, but his reasoning is contradictory with the reasoning for holding back content. |
Splat Zones can run a bit longer, maybe about 5 minutes. They can also be over in under 2 minutes.
To be honest just from skimming the Splatoon thread on Gaf, I already don't want to talk to anybody playing this game. Whatever their age is, those guys are just as bad as the COD crowd they mock. There's definitely a hypocritical element in play here, as before launch I saw a lot of people happy for the lack of voice chat so that people wouldn't be constantly shouting obscenities at them... now that the game is out I see people (are they the same people? beats me) shouting obscenities to no one in particular on internet forums and lamenting their inability to verbally harass their inept teammates.
