The push to talk you can just keep muting and unmuting yourself, separate voice from music you have a point but you can mute other’s
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Not everyone keeps their mouse hovered over the mute button 24/7 and in a lot of cases, you’re actively gaming and doing other things… Having push to talk is an essential part of any voice chat functionality which would be nice to also have on Roblox.
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Yeah, no. I’d rather have VC in private servers than only in public. I only use VC in public servers anyways, so it’s basically useless to me now. Thanks, Roblox, for taking away something that I loved. Guess I am keeping myself muted unless I am playing on a friends-only game.
Isn’t public VC even worse than private VC when it comes to safety? When you are on a private server; you are most likely with just your friends. It makes no sense to restrict this. Simply walk away from everyone else and you got a possibly dangerous situation.
Big Roblox L. People deserve to be mad about this as this is just a dumb decision. I doubt Roblox will add the VC to private servers any time soon, so we’ll be stuck with this. Would probably take more than a year for Roblox to add it back or just forget about it entirely knowing their track record.
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I understand the update and the reason Roblox has decided to remove Spatial Voice from private servers, however that’s actually - not beneficial at all.
What would get a child to talk to a (possible) predator in a private server via Spatial Voice? Aren’t you supposed to moderate everything that goes through players’ microphones? My point is: players use Spatial Voice in private servers because they don’t have access to third-party apps, which are more dangerous. Additionally, you have two usage scenarios for private servers:
- Friends
- Gamenights, events and similar
…and in both situations they’re a safe environment. PSes used for events are, essentially, “invite-only public server”, so what’s the point, if public chat is not even properly moderated?
I see no much of a possible danger to anyone using Spatial Voice in private servers. Private servers exist as an “already-safe” environment. What Roblox should prioritise is in monitoring and moderating the public usage.
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is it just 13+ or 13 and over?
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unless moderation steps it up this is going to descend into chaos 
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Spatial Voice is available for those who only have 13+.
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Roblox Moderation has already been interconnected with the feature once having experiences with Spatial Voice. If we go to Natural Disaster Survival, as a sample, we can see an interface named BETA:
For a short explanation of the message through the image above, if you encounter a user behaving insignificantly while not following the Community Standards (in general), you need to report it through the “Report Abuse” feature. Roblox records what you say and can legally collect, use, and store for safety as you, the player, selected to have the Voice Chat enabled.
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yea cuz some games have that new topbar buttons thing and it just covers their images/text a bit
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13+ = 13 and over
i think thats what the plus means
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oh yeah that’s a problem. like you’re in a camping game with voice chat but voice chat is only in the lobby.
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It took that long?
I’m so excited, I was falsely banned from voice chat until it’s out of beta and I am clueless to a reason still to this day. Probably because I swore a bit but that’s all I can guess.
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Will we get a better VoiceChat API? For example setting players voice channels (for teams, etc) or binding the voice chat to a button instead of the UI above the players head (since it doesn’t work for first person games)
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Oh I see however, didn’t they say the meaning of context matters? Assuming you’ve been invited to a private server/joined a friend’s private server means surely the moderation should not be as strict. If they are going to continue with this context idea, I feel like moderation will become a little harder.
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Will voice chat be available for 13+ users only in the US or will be released for other countries too? and when will it start rolling out?
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what about outside of the US? i also wanna get it
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You can still have access to enable Voice Chat from other countries
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Why is Chat with Voice being officially released as a feature without its corresponding developer APIs?
I’d dare to say that it can’t even be considered a finished feature yet without giving developers the ability to manipulate it.
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VoiceChatService
It goes without saying and many people have voiced the same concern as me, it is pivotal that developers get moderation controls over voice chat users.
I dont want a person breathing down their mic, anoying other players, someone who hasn’t balanced it correctly or most importantly, someone hurling slurs down their microphone with no developer say on the matter, and I know many people wouldn’t either.
Please give us the ability to at least force mute players, the fact we need hacky modules to implement basic functionality that other chat programs have built into their moderation tools is not ok.
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I personally don’t believe Spatial Voice is ready to be released out to the public yet, along with the huge, tons, dozens, loads, frequent amount of Engine Reports due to this case
Releasing an update like this that still suffers from the frequent amount of bugs that have not been resolved yet, makes me worried about how much more Voice Chat can endure once it gets released to the public live
Not to mention that Age Verification is still buggy & denies your application if you change your Age, which prevents Members having access to this feature to begin in the first place as well
We, as a Developer Community desperately need transparency. Planning to release it to the public (Even with all the known issues about it) feels like it’s basically been topped with a Band-Aid, and it doesn’t feel right unless the major issues have been addressed
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