lightningmusou:

IGN, you dense, ignorant fools. One of the reasons that Splatoon is as fun as it is is because there isn’t voice chat. Anyone can play the game and feel safe because they don’t have opponents spouting abusive slurs into a headset mic like a stereotypical Call of Duty player.

Further, the game’s objectives are simple enough that voice chat is not a requirement for strategy. Why? Because the goal is to coat as much of the landscape in your team’s ink color as you possibly can. See a surface that hasn’t been covered in ink yet? Cover it in ink! How about that surface covered in the enemy team’s color? Cover it in your own ink and claim it!

But no, you Mountain Dew-swilling, Dorito-munching chowderheads. Splatoon absolutely needs a feature that would only make the experience less appealing and accepting to a wider audience.