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Why are outside communication programmes becoming the standard route of chatting nowadays?
It irks me that people do not use the InGame chat; they instead use bloatware such as Skype, TeamSpeak and Mumble. The text-chat system in MineCraft was specifically created for players to communicate with one another. Why do people shun it, in favour of an easier, lazier method of communication?
I would like to have an explanation; one with logical facts that correlate to some understandable point of view.
In the past, people have told me that they would rather use a Voice Chat programme, instead of the InGame chat, because it is 'too difficult' for them to chat whilst within combat, or whilst building and mining. Which brings me to another question - What is stopping you from finishing combat, and then chatting? Why is it so difficult for you to pause in your mining or building, to open the chat and type a simple sentence?
Is it because people are as lazy as the usage of these programmes imply? Does using the proper chat system truly hinder you that much? I honestly feel baffled by this ludicrous notion that one is too impatient to pause for a moment, or finish what they are doing, so that they can type out a reply. I understand this behaviour in children and those who might have obvious physical impairments that prevent them from doing so; but in perfectly capable adults? I have met many people my age and older, who prefer to use voice chat, over the InGame chat, because they claim that it is 'easier' to communicate. This makes no sense to me; why does one find it difficult to type out their chat?
I apologise for this turning into a 'rant' of sorts, but this is truly something that sparks a flame of irritation in me. No matter how I look at it, no matter what people have explained to me, I cannot, for the life of me; understand why people insist on being lazy. I do not condone such behaviour, nor do I ever plan on participating in this folly.
It's often a preference thing, really. I, for one, prefer using voice chat as it not only give me a strategic edge in things like PVP, it also makes it easier to relay information faster than typing (I'm a slow typer to begin with). In addition, voice chat lets me "connect" with my friends easier (not to mention that it helps with my verbal skills, which is always useful). I like to joke around with my friends, and if you've ever heard of Poe's Law you'd understand how hard it is to type something in a joking manner, especially if what I typed could be taken as rude without the proper intonation that speaking provides.
Again, it's all about preference. Some of my friends are shy and prefer to type, while some simply say that typing is more effective when you're going into detail.
Also, I wouldn't call talking all that lazy. To be honest, that's like calling someone lazy just because they want to automate a task instead of waste time doing it themselves. Replacing words with single letters ('k', 'r', 'u', 'y', etc.) even if there is no good reason to, now that's lazy. Not a perfect analogy, but you get the point.
I'm eager to see what others have to say about it, though.
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It's often a preference thing, really. I, for one, prefer using voice chat as it not only give me a strategic edge in things like PVP, it also makes it easier to relay information faster than typing (I'm a slow typer to begin with). In addition, voice chat lets me "connect" with my friends easier (not to mention that it helps with my verbal skills, which is always useful). I like to joke around with my friends, and if you've ever heard of Poe's Law you'd understand how hard it is to type something in a joking manner, especially if what I typed could be taken as rude without the proper intonation that speaking provides.
Again, it's all about preference. Some of my friends are shy and prefer to type, while some simply say that typing is more effective when you're going into detail.
Also, I wouldn't call talking all that lazy. To be honest, that's like calling someone lazy just because they want to automate a task instead of waste time doing it themselves. Replacing words with single letters ('k', 'r', 'u', 'y', etc.) even if there is no good reason to, now that's lazy. Not a perfect analogy, but you get the point.
I'm eager to see what others have to say about it, though.
I can understand the Poe's Law thing, but I still insist on calling it lazy; the example you gave referencing automation is exactly what I would call as such. An automatic smelter for instance. I would rather have a massive wall of furnaces that I have to empty and fill, one by one; because I view automation as one of the worst sorts of sheer laziness. I do agree with what you said regarding the single letters; I find that to be rather irritating as well.
To me, voice chat requires little to no effort. You simply... 'act'. If you type things out, it requires you to actually see what you are typing, prior to pressing enter. You must think about it; thus causing you to use your reading comprehension skills.
It's more fun to actually talk to people. You can talk about things and play the game at the same time, and you can coordinate PvP tactics and change them during the battle. Plus actually talking to people can make it so you get to know the person more personally. This makes relationships easier to maintain and you can joke around properly with new friends.
It gets lonely at times when I have nobody to talk to irl, so making friends online and talking to them while playing helps a lot.
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It's more fun to actually talk to people. You can talk about things and play the game at the same time, and you can coordinate PvP tactics and change them during the battle. Plus actually talking to people can make it so you get to know the person more personally. This makes relationships easier to maintain and you can joke around properly with new friends.
It gets lonely at times when I have nobody to talk to irl, so making friends online and talking to them while playing helps a lot.
I agree it is more fun to talk to people. That is one of the primary reasons that I play servers; I do not personally enjoy PvP though. I actively avoid PvP situations at all costs, as I find no pleasure or enjoyment in killing other players. Nor do I see, or understand any reason to coordinate efforts of mass killing.
Again, I agree getting to know people is nice. I have never once communicated via 'voice' on the Internet, nor have I used those aforementioned programmes. Every friend I have ever made online, was via the proper channels of communication in the game I played. I find relationships and joking around to be rather easy, with just text on a screen.
I also agree that it becomes lonely without people to talk to online; hence why I play servers instead of single player. I find my loneliness to be cured when I am chatting with other people, via text-chat.
Yea i agree with Katmoo. I also say that if a server staff tries to talk to you you need to pay attention to chat instead of get in trouble and get kicked or even banned!
I favor the in-game chat, but only because I like to keep my identity safe on-line. I only use voice chat and face-cam when I am planning to talk to someone I know in real life, someone I know by meeting them in person and shaking their hand.
But the other reason you would want a voice chat is timing. Not only is timing good for jokes, but let's say somebody asked a question. If you're a slow typer, like me, when you finally answer the question the conversation in the chat has probably moved on. It's why there are such abbreviations like k, u, r, and y. I find myself using abbreviations like k and not capitalizing or spelling words correctly just for the inefficiency of typing. Remember, in-game chat is also live chat, not a forum.
For the automation thing, I understand your preference, but I do like to automate things. My main style of building is steam-punk, and what steam-punk is all about is -- well, that everything is powered by steam. Everything in a steam-punk style world is automated or at least seems to be automated.
Now, I do disagree that automating things is lazy. I think it's more of a convenience. Let's say you were planning on making a few iron golems for your village, but you have no iron, just iron ore -- and then you had to do homework, or something. In a situation where you had an automated furnace room, you could quickly place all of your iron ore into a chest, and run off to do whatever you needed to do, and come back to see that all of your iron is finished. If it wasn't automated, you would have to watch over your iron while it's cooking, and every time a stack is done, you'd have to put in another stack, and when your coal burns up, you'd have to put in a stack of that, too. By the time you finished, whatever else you had to do would of had to wait for a long time. Most people simply don't have enough time to sit there watching a furnace.
That probably wasn't the best example, and it was a bit long-winded too, but I guess it worked.
I feel like you're just saying that because you've never really done it and so you don't see the point. Which is like, fair enough, but if you just play survival with random people, then yeah, you don't need to talk. Chatting in that case is fine. But if you want to leave that server with the friends you make on the server, it's going to be tough. In that case, you'd need an outside method of communication and skyping/whatever becomes really handy.
I've played on plenty of vanilla/small servers where some of us were "friends" and just played and talked. But those "friendships" only lasted as long as the server was alive. I never heard from those players again. And because of this, I started talking to people and added them to skype. This way I can talk to them later on and become real friends.
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I guess I will not be finding a suitable answer this time around. Thank you to everyone who replied, but I still do not understand why people insist on using Voice chat. The reasons given thus far do nothing to shed any light on the matter, for me. They only repeat the same things I always hear, when I ask about this.
Again, thank you. This thread has outlived whatever usefulness it might have had; as I have lost interest for the time being.
idk, i feel like my latest post explained it nicely.
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idk, i feel like my latest post explained it nicely.
To you, in your point of view, based upon your experiences and perceptions - Yes.
To a logical point of view, where one wishes for an unbiased explanation uncluttered with personal opinions and perceptions - No.
Keeping in contact with friends outside of a temporary setting such as a short-lived Survival server is quite easy without voice chat. You could use Email, as I do rather frequently. Again, this thread is no longer of any value to me, as I have exhausted my patience with it. Every reply thus far has simply been repeated verbatim from every other time I have requested an explanation.
Call our opinions whatever you want. The fact still remains that talking to people makes you less lonely. That's just about it. You can't live a normal life if all you do is just chat to other humans. You need to talk. If you've got plenty of people to talk to IRL and you're ok with just chatting with others in an online community, that's perfectly fine. You're not looking to form proper relationships. If you take away anything from this thread, take away that. Tons of players in online communities play games because they're lonely IRL. Making friends online and having someone to talk to makes them feel normal.
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Sometimes people want to do the thing that is more "lazy" because what you are calling more lazy can also be easier and it can be easier to voice chat than type. I almost always use text chat in Minecraft though.
I don't understand why you are calling talking lazy. Why can't you use Skype or a similar program? It can also help you feel less lonely.
Why are outside communication programmes becoming the standard route of chatting nowadays?
It's not always a cheating thing (in fact, there are many reasons involving quite legal endeavors), but the thinking is that since it's outside of the game then mods and developers can't monitor it and enact safeguards against it nor can other players react to it.
It's true, I take back a little of what I said earlier. There is nothing lazy about voice chat. As I said before, convenience and easiness =/= laziness.
I wouldn't call any of this lazy, at the end of the day it is just preference. I personally use both and like both. But I do find it better chatting to my friends over a program like Skype because if I talk to my friends over text it just isn't the same it feels like I am just talking to someone random not my friends. Were as when we communicate with our voices it gives more chance for us to talk like proper friends, it feels more natural and normal since I met my friends in real life. And also the thing on automation, some people like building things with redstone and this may include automated stuff it isn't being lazy some people like watching a super complicated machine smelt all of there ores for them just because its cool for them. And you also need to remember building a lot of these machines take work to make. But some people also like smelting things themselves and there is nothing wrong with that. Everyone is different and being different doesn't make your lazy. Even if you build your self a super automatic iron farm like the iron titan (by Tango) it isn't being lazy its just you don't see it as cheating, I personally don't like this but some people do and because they like having infinite iron, this is not lazy this is preference. What is however lazy is when you ask someone to play a game with you but they won't if you don't use Skype or something similar, if they get angry with you when pranced because they don't want to clean it up and if they would rather watch YouTube videos on minecraft than play it just because they don't feel like chopping trees or mining, or even typing messages. (I know these examples are a bit on the extreme side but I find this happens alot)
I hope you can start realizing that everyone is different and so is there preferences, yes there are lazy people but just because someone likes chatting over Skype, Mumble etc doesn't mean they are lazy... and the same applies to automation, some people just like it and actually just the act of building a big automated farm shows you aren't lazy since real lazy people would just cheat in some wheat or make there worlds have extra ores.
Why are outside communication programmes becoming the standard route of chatting nowadays?
It irks me that people do not use the InGame chat; they instead use bloatware such as Skype, TeamSpeak and Mumble. The text-chat system in MineCraft was specifically created for players to communicate with one another. Why do people shun it, in favour of an easier, lazier method of communication?
I would like to have an explanation; one with logical facts that correlate to some understandable point of view.
In the past, people have told me that they would rather use a Voice Chat programme, instead of the InGame chat, because it is 'too difficult' for them to chat whilst within combat, or whilst building and mining. Which brings me to another question - What is stopping you from finishing combat, and then chatting? Why is it so difficult for you to pause in your mining or building, to open the chat and type a simple sentence?
Is it because people are as lazy as the usage of these programmes imply? Does using the proper chat system truly hinder you that much? I honestly feel baffled by this ludicrous notion that one is too impatient to pause for a moment, or finish what they are doing, so that they can type out a reply. I understand this behaviour in children and those who might have obvious physical impairments that prevent them from doing so; but in perfectly capable adults? I have met many people my age and older, who prefer to use voice chat, over the InGame chat, because they claim that it is 'easier' to communicate. This makes no sense to me; why does one find it difficult to type out their chat?
I apologise for this turning into a 'rant' of sorts, but this is truly something that sparks a flame of irritation in me. No matter how I look at it, no matter what people have explained to me, I cannot, for the life of me; understand why people insist on being lazy. I do not condone such behaviour, nor do I ever plan on participating in this folly.
You answered your own question, people use it because it's faster, easier, and more flexible than textual chat is. Textual chat requires pausing what you're doing to type a message in and send it, which can make the difference between life or death when you're in a PVP game or fighting off a horde of mobs. People use voice chat because it's not only faster than typing, but also much easier to do, you just speak which you can do while still playing the game, meaning it's also much more flexible and will work the exact same and fulfill it's purpose in every situation (except if your mic dies).
And people use an external program because Minecraft currently has no voice chat system in place.
I can understand the Poe's Law thing, but I still insist on calling it lazy; the example you gave referencing automation is exactly what I would call as such. An automatic smelter for instance. I would rather have a massive wall of furnaces that I have to empty and fill, one by one; because I view automation as one of the worst sorts of sheer laziness. I do agree with what you said regarding the single letters; I find that to be rather irritating as well. One man's treasure is another man's garbage. I personally find manually moving items myself around annoying, I'd like to build up an automated system that takes care of everything for me, it's a goal to create a system where I give it things and it does it, rather than me doing it myself.
And think of it this way, without automation you wouldn't have the electronics you're playing the game on, or the bed you sleep in, or the clothes you wear, or the house you live in, or the food you eat. Everything in the modern world is a product of automation and is reliant on automation.
To me, voice chat requires little to no effort. You simply... 'act'. If you type things out, it requires you to actually see what you are typing, prior to pressing enter. You must think about it; thus causing you to use your reading comprehension skills. And this is why it is such a more superior form of communication than text chat, especially when it comes to games. If you simply 'act', it means you can focus your effort to something else instead of typing, as said above.
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I believe the medium one chooses to communicate through is contextual. That said, I know of a few people who have adopted voice chat as the norm, which I find odd. The entire point of labeling one method as "lazy" compared to another is ridiculous and obviously bias driven. If you "don't understand why" people like voice chat over in game chat, then the problem is yours.
As to the actual question, I believe voice chat is a far, far more practical and efficient means of communicating when compared to text chatting. If you are collaborating on a build with somebody, or playing in a UHC, then voice chat is a must. If you're just farting around on the server then I see no reason use unnecessary bandwidth on voice chatting.
On the server I play on voice chatting is only ever used for group discussions related to server business, or for tricky colabs involving redstone or something. It is never a default thing to go to, and there isn't always a running skype call active.
To you, in your point of view, based upon your experiences and perceptions - Yes.
To a logical point of view, where one wishes for an unbiased explanation uncluttered with personal opinions and perceptions - No.
Keeping in contact with friends outside of a temporary setting such as a short-lived Survival server is quite easy without voice chat. You could use Email, as I do rather frequently. Again, this thread is no longer of any value to me, as I have exhausted my patience with it. Every reply thus far has simply been repeated verbatim from every other time I have requested an explanation.
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This, right here, is when I stopped taking your posts seriously. You're asking a question about why different people prefer different communication methods, but then demanding that explanations be "uncluttered with personal opinions and perceptions"? By this definition of "logical point of view", why should people NOT use 3rd-party voicechat programs? Can you provide an argument which is 100% objective and not based on your own personal views?
That being said, a couple reasons to use voice immediately stand out to me. One reason is that by using voice, you can communicate and play at the same time, whereas with text you must swap between the two. So, far from being lazy, it actually allows you to effectively multitask. Additionally, by hearing someone's voice, it becomes easier to understand what that person is intending to convey. Imagine in the middle of a text conversation, someone types "Excuse me". Is that person trying to politely interrupt? Did he miss something and want it explained further? Is he expressing indignation about a remark someone else said? With text alone it can be difficult to convey what could be easily picked up through the tone of one's voice.
Finally, I suggest you re-read your posts and examine whether they really come across the way you intended. I'm sure your question was asked in earnest, but when you dismiss several perfectly good arguments as all "repeated verbatim from every other time <you> have requested an explanation", you just give the impression that you either didn't read any of the previous explanations, then, or else you did and are deliberately ignoring them for the sake of feeling superior. This is only exacerbated when you essentially say, "No, no, give me an OBJECTIVE reason for someone's completely SUBJECTIVE, personal decision".
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Why are outside communication programmes becoming the standard route of chatting nowadays?
It irks me that people do not use the InGame chat; they instead use bloatware such as Skype, TeamSpeak and Mumble. The text-chat system in MineCraft was specifically created for players to communicate with one another. Why do people shun it, in favour of an easier, lazier method of communication?
I would like to have an explanation; one with logical facts that correlate to some understandable point of view.
In the past, people have told me that they would rather use a Voice Chat programme, instead of the InGame chat, because it is 'too difficult' for them to chat whilst within combat, or whilst building and mining. Which brings me to another question - What is stopping you from finishing combat, and then chatting? Why is it so difficult for you to pause in your mining or building, to open the chat and type a simple sentence?
Is it because people are as lazy as the usage of these programmes imply? Does using the proper chat system truly hinder you that much? I honestly feel baffled by this ludicrous notion that one is too impatient to pause for a moment, or finish what they are doing, so that they can type out a reply. I understand this behaviour in children and those who might have obvious physical impairments that prevent them from doing so; but in perfectly capable adults? I have met many people my age and older, who prefer to use voice chat, over the InGame chat, because they claim that it is 'easier' to communicate. This makes no sense to me; why does one find it difficult to type out their chat?
I apologise for this turning into a 'rant' of sorts, but this is truly something that sparks a flame of irritation in me. No matter how I look at it, no matter what people have explained to me, I cannot, for the life of me; understand why people insist on being lazy. I do not condone such behaviour, nor do I ever plan on participating in this folly.
It's often a preference thing, really. I, for one, prefer using voice chat as it not only give me a strategic edge in things like PVP, it also makes it easier to relay information faster than typing (I'm a slow typer to begin with). In addition, voice chat lets me "connect" with my friends easier (not to mention that it helps with my verbal skills, which is always useful). I like to joke around with my friends, and if you've ever heard of Poe's Law you'd understand how hard it is to type something in a joking manner, especially if what I typed could be taken as rude without the proper intonation that speaking provides.
Again, it's all about preference. Some of my friends are shy and prefer to type, while some simply say that typing is more effective when you're going into detail.
Also, I wouldn't call talking all that lazy. To be honest, that's like calling someone lazy just because they want to automate a task instead of waste time doing it themselves. Replacing words with single letters ('k', 'r', 'u', 'y', etc.) even if there is no good reason to, now that's lazy. Not a perfect analogy, but you get the point.
I'm eager to see what others have to say about it, though.
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I can understand the Poe's Law thing, but I still insist on calling it lazy; the example you gave referencing automation is exactly what I would call as such. An automatic smelter for instance. I would rather have a massive wall of furnaces that I have to empty and fill, one by one; because I view automation as one of the worst sorts of sheer laziness. I do agree with what you said regarding the single letters; I find that to be rather irritating as well.
To me, voice chat requires little to no effort. You simply... 'act'. If you type things out, it requires you to actually see what you are typing, prior to pressing enter. You must think about it; thus causing you to use your reading comprehension skills.
It's more fun to actually talk to people. You can talk about things and play the game at the same time, and you can coordinate PvP tactics and change them during the battle. Plus actually talking to people can make it so you get to know the person more personally. This makes relationships easier to maintain and you can joke around properly with new friends.
It gets lonely at times when I have nobody to talk to irl, so making friends online and talking to them while playing helps a lot.
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I agree it is more fun to talk to people. That is one of the primary reasons that I play servers; I do not personally enjoy PvP though. I actively avoid PvP situations at all costs, as I find no pleasure or enjoyment in killing other players. Nor do I see, or understand any reason to coordinate efforts of mass killing.
Again, I agree getting to know people is nice. I have never once communicated via 'voice' on the Internet, nor have I used those aforementioned programmes. Every friend I have ever made online, was via the proper channels of communication in the game I played. I find relationships and joking around to be rather easy, with just text on a screen.
I also agree that it becomes lonely without people to talk to online; hence why I play servers instead of single player. I find my loneliness to be cured when I am chatting with other people, via text-chat.
Yea i agree with Katmoo. I also say that if a server staff tries to talk to you you need to pay attention to chat instead of get in trouble and get kicked or even banned!
I favor the in-game chat, but only because I like to keep my identity safe on-line. I only use voice chat and face-cam when I am planning to talk to someone I know in real life, someone I know by meeting them in person and shaking their hand.
But the other reason you would want a voice chat is timing. Not only is timing good for jokes, but let's say somebody asked a question. If you're a slow typer, like me, when you finally answer the question the conversation in the chat has probably moved on. It's why there are such abbreviations like k, u, r, and y. I find myself using abbreviations like k and not capitalizing or spelling words correctly just for the inefficiency of typing. Remember, in-game chat is also live chat, not a forum.
For the automation thing, I understand your preference, but I do like to automate things. My main style of building is steam-punk, and what steam-punk is all about is -- well, that everything is powered by steam. Everything in a steam-punk style world is automated or at least seems to be automated.
Now, I do disagree that automating things is lazy. I think it's more of a convenience. Let's say you were planning on making a few iron golems for your village, but you have no iron, just iron ore -- and then you had to do homework, or something. In a situation where you had an automated furnace room, you could quickly place all of your iron ore into a chest, and run off to do whatever you needed to do, and come back to see that all of your iron is finished. If it wasn't automated, you would have to watch over your iron while it's cooking, and every time a stack is done, you'd have to put in another stack, and when your coal burns up, you'd have to put in a stack of that, too. By the time you finished, whatever else you had to do would of had to wait for a long time. Most people simply don't have enough time to sit there watching a furnace.
That probably wasn't the best example, and it was a bit long-winded too, but I guess it worked.
I feel like you're just saying that because you've never really done it and so you don't see the point. Which is like, fair enough, but if you just play survival with random people, then yeah, you don't need to talk. Chatting in that case is fine. But if you want to leave that server with the friends you make on the server, it's going to be tough. In that case, you'd need an outside method of communication and skyping/whatever becomes really handy.
I've played on plenty of vanilla/small servers where some of us were "friends" and just played and talked. But those "friendships" only lasted as long as the server was alive. I never heard from those players again. And because of this, I started talking to people and added them to skype. This way I can talk to them later on and become real friends.
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I guess I will not be finding a suitable answer this time around. Thank you to everyone who replied, but I still do not understand why people insist on using Voice chat. The reasons given thus far do nothing to shed any light on the matter, for me. They only repeat the same things I always hear, when I ask about this.
Again, thank you. This thread has outlived whatever usefulness it might have had; as I have lost interest for the time being.
idk, i feel like my latest post explained it nicely.
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To you, in your point of view, based upon your experiences and perceptions - Yes.
To a logical point of view, where one wishes for an unbiased explanation uncluttered with personal opinions and perceptions - No.
Keeping in contact with friends outside of a temporary setting such as a short-lived Survival server is quite easy without voice chat. You could use Email, as I do rather frequently. Again, this thread is no longer of any value to me, as I have exhausted my patience with it. Every reply thus far has simply been repeated verbatim from every other time I have requested an explanation.
Call our opinions whatever you want. The fact still remains that talking to people makes you less lonely. That's just about it. You can't live a normal life if all you do is just chat to other humans. You need to talk. If you've got plenty of people to talk to IRL and you're ok with just chatting with others in an online community, that's perfectly fine. You're not looking to form proper relationships. If you take away anything from this thread, take away that. Tons of players in online communities play games because they're lonely IRL. Making friends online and having someone to talk to makes them feel normal.
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Sometimes people want to do the thing that is more "lazy" because what you are calling more lazy can also be easier and it can be easier to voice chat than type. I almost always use text chat in Minecraft though.
I don't understand why you are calling talking lazy. Why can't you use Skype or a similar program? It can also help you feel less lonely.
It's not always a cheating thing (in fact, there are many reasons involving quite legal endeavors), but the thinking is that since it's outside of the game then mods and developers can't monitor it and enact safeguards against it nor can other players react to it.
It's true, I take back a little of what I said earlier. There is nothing lazy about voice chat. As I said before, convenience and easiness =/= laziness.
I wouldn't call any of this lazy, at the end of the day it is just preference. I personally use both and like both. But I do find it better chatting to my friends over a program like Skype because if I talk to my friends over text it just isn't the same it feels like I am just talking to someone random not my friends. Were as when we communicate with our voices it gives more chance for us to talk like proper friends, it feels more natural and normal since I met my friends in real life. And also the thing on automation, some people like building things with redstone and this may include automated stuff it isn't being lazy some people like watching a super complicated machine smelt all of there ores for them just because its cool for them. And you also need to remember building a lot of these machines take work to make. But some people also like smelting things themselves and there is nothing wrong with that. Everyone is different and being different doesn't make your lazy. Even if you build your self a super automatic iron farm like the iron titan (by Tango) it isn't being lazy its just you don't see it as cheating, I personally don't like this but some people do and because they like having infinite iron, this is not lazy this is preference. What is however lazy is when you ask someone to play a game with you but they won't if you don't use Skype or something similar, if they get angry with you when pranced because they don't want to clean it up and if they would rather watch YouTube videos on minecraft than play it just because they don't feel like chopping trees or mining, or even typing messages. (I know these examples are a bit on the extreme side but I find this happens alot)
I hope you can start realizing that everyone is different and so is there preferences, yes there are lazy people but just because someone likes chatting over Skype, Mumble etc doesn't mean they are lazy... and the same applies to automation, some people just like it and actually just the act of building a big automated farm shows you aren't lazy since real lazy people would just cheat in some wheat or make there worlds have extra ores.
You answered your own question, people use it because it's faster, easier, and more flexible than textual chat is. Textual chat requires pausing what you're doing to type a message in and send it, which can make the difference between life or death when you're in a PVP game or fighting off a horde of mobs. People use voice chat because it's not only faster than typing, but also much easier to do, you just speak which you can do while still playing the game, meaning it's also much more flexible and will work the exact same and fulfill it's purpose in every situation (except if your mic dies).
And people use an external program because Minecraft currently has no voice chat system in place.
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I use Skype with my friend while playing mini-games, but I'll still use the normal in-game chat for anyone who talks to me.
I believe the medium one chooses to communicate through is contextual. That said, I know of a few people who have adopted voice chat as the norm, which I find odd. The entire point of labeling one method as "lazy" compared to another is ridiculous and obviously bias driven. If you "don't understand why" people like voice chat over in game chat, then the problem is yours.
As to the actual question, I believe voice chat is a far, far more practical and efficient means of communicating when compared to text chatting. If you are collaborating on a build with somebody, or playing in a UHC, then voice chat is a must. If you're just farting around on the server then I see no reason use unnecessary bandwidth on voice chatting.
On the server I play on voice chatting is only ever used for group discussions related to server business, or for tricky colabs involving redstone or something. It is never a default thing to go to, and there isn't always a running skype call active.
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This, right here, is when I stopped taking your posts seriously. You're asking a question about why different people prefer different communication methods, but then demanding that explanations be "uncluttered with personal opinions and perceptions"? By this definition of "logical point of view", why should people NOT use 3rd-party voicechat programs? Can you provide an argument which is 100% objective and not based on your own personal views?
That being said, a couple reasons to use voice immediately stand out to me. One reason is that by using voice, you can communicate and play at the same time, whereas with text you must swap between the two. So, far from being lazy, it actually allows you to effectively multitask. Additionally, by hearing someone's voice, it becomes easier to understand what that person is intending to convey. Imagine in the middle of a text conversation, someone types "Excuse me". Is that person trying to politely interrupt? Did he miss something and want it explained further? Is he expressing indignation about a remark someone else said? With text alone it can be difficult to convey what could be easily picked up through the tone of one's voice.
Finally, I suggest you re-read your posts and examine whether they really come across the way you intended. I'm sure your question was asked in earnest, but when you dismiss several perfectly good arguments as all "repeated verbatim from every other time <you> have requested an explanation", you just give the impression that you either didn't read any of the previous explanations, then, or else you did and are deliberately ignoring them for the sake of feeling superior. This is only exacerbated when you essentially say, "No, no, give me an OBJECTIVE reason for someone's completely SUBJECTIVE, personal decision".
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