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Suggestion: Allow voice-chat for ALL players - big guy#1010 - 07-23-2022
Since the patch of 04/24/2022, Voice Chat has been limited to members only seemingly without explanation.
The fact of the matter is that voice-chat is unused even by non-donator players to the point that it's too harsh to continue limiting it even after almost 3 months of it being gone "for the time being". The only valid reasons one would want to limit voice-chat is toxicity and otherwise abuse in the rare instances it occurs, but players already have a multitude of options to deal with it (not to mention that players can STILL abuse other players in chat regardless of the 15 second cooldown between messages).
Muting the player, disabling voice chat in its entirety, or calling in staff when it gets to a point where said player is breaking multiple rules by chatting are all very good ways of dealing with the situation and can be done by any player at any time.
Surprisingly, a lot of players don't even realize the existence of voice chat and thus do not use it themselves and at most only a few people are willing to use it as a result. Voice chat for all players makes the game incredibly lively, players can joke, banter, and otherwise have loads of fun talking to other players, which is only added to by the fact that it's proximity-based which makes players want to engage in conversation even more, English or otherwise.
Such a simple feature as being able to talk with your actual voice shouldn't be locked behind any paywall of any kind, regardless of how much it is. Voice chatting is basically completely barren now and toxicity still happens in text chat, removing one of the best parts about playing FiveM with a full gamemode server. The re-addition of voice chat for normal players would cause an, at most, negligible amount of extra moderation as players have their own choice to mute and disable voice chat on their own. We won't have 32 players screaming slurs all of a sudden the second it gets re-enabled.
If you disagree, please state why.
RE: Suggestion: Allow voice-chat for ALL players - Rky Smart - 07-24-2022
With text chat we can have automatic filters, prevent a message from being sent if it contains a slur, for example. Even when someone bypasses the filter we can check their chat logs if they are reported.
The same can't be done for voice-chat, we can't detect bad words and mute in real-time. You then rely on players' help to report when it happens but we don't have recording of VC so we need evidence to avoid false reports. The problem is they abuse VC when the round is starting so you can't see who is speaking, even if recording.
Players don't see half of what happens because we have auto reports & timeouts. If every time you enter the server you see the bad behavior it's a really bad experience. Especially for new players.
Yes, you could try to mute someone (see above why that doesn't work) or disable VC entirely, but we can't punish good players because of the bad ones.
We want the server to grow and for everyone to feel safe, streamers are one group that helps with this and they are the ones more inclined to use VC. Because we can only act after it happens, streamers would be subject to breaking TOS of the platform they are streaming on, because someone else is breaking the rules... if this happens one time it's already too much and it doesn't happen only once.
As mods we offer our help for free and with the time we have available (because we want to). But we don't want to spend our free time on the server moderating all the time, we want and deserve to play too.
By having it as a membership feature it reduces the amount of people that use it, the type of people that use it and they have something to lose if they get banned for abusing VC.
RE: Suggestion: Allow voice-chat for ALL players - Steve - 09-22-2022
Members can now host sessions with voice chat on, voice chat still will be off for players who do not have a membership in public sessions.