osu!lazer ingame voice calls feature

[literallynotrealoptimus]

Since a competitive mode in the form of duels was recently added to the game, I suggest adding the ability to communicate via voice chat between players. This could also attract more players into osu!lazer

og forum topic: https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/2166491?n=1

[Lex0890]

I think it's a good idea, but I think it's for the minority who play Lazer. It would be better to make software that integrates with Stable and Lazer and detects which players are in a multiplayer game and connects them. I know this requires a lot of technical knowledge, especially for the safety of the players, since someone with bad intentions could exploit this. It would be a little unfair if only part of the community could enjoy this feature. I will support it anyway, since in the future, Lazer will be the main client where the majority will be.

Also, regarding how this voice chat will be moderated, since there are currently many players and this requires too many human resources, I don't think this idea will be feasible. It's not that I don't like it, it's just that it has a high cost for a game that is free and that can stay afloat thanks to donations from the community and the purchase of its merchandise.

[Tenexxt]

why are we still trying to add upward-compatibility to stable when it's been said for like 5+ years that stable will not receive any more significant updates?

[Lex0890]

cause the mayority of the community still there

[literallynotrealoptimus]

it can be done cheaply

[Tenexxt]

This sounds good on paper until you realise it's massive moderation hell and would ultimately not be used that much. In other games with in-game voice chat, it gets really used between randoms this would probably not be different here.

Doesn't seem worth the effort and the resources it would require

[literallynotrealoptimus]

That still wouldn't dismiss the need for moderation

or only supporter feature

[Userlog2]

or only supporter feature

Even then, mutuals who have supporter may still behave inappropriately toward each other.

[Tenexxt]

also this would make this even more not worth the resources since its usage would be even more limited

[literallynotrealoptimus]

also this would make this even more not worth the resources since its usage would be even more limited

literallynotrealoptimus
3 days ago
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it can be done cheaply

[Tenexxt]

sure, even if it wouldn't be expensive (somehow) then this still requires a lot of development and moderation, which are valuble resources. In the time that the feature would be made other things could be made in its place that people would find better, like implementing me! profile sections in-game, fixing osu!catch replay issues, or reworking outdated parts of the UI like the pause screen and the main menu.

osu! doesn't need its own voice chat since discord already exists and has for a long time, people would still use it for main voice comunication when playing together

also, how exactly do we know it would even be cheap in the first place??