How to enable Voice Chat in Roblox?
Spatial voice chat is nothing new as it can be heard a lot in games like Among Us and Sea of Thieves. The team at Roblox wanted to tackle the issue of children’s’ safety by requiring players to be the minimum age of 18 in order to use the spatial voice chat function.
Roblox voice chat feature: When is its release date and is it safe?
Well, as you've probably surmised by this point, Roblox now has voice chat which was just released out of beta -- "Spatial voice chat," to be specific. Spatial voice chat is a feature that alters the volume (and sometimes the sound) of speakers depending on their position relative to you in the game world.
The main concern with this sort of update is that Roblox’s primary player demographic is relatively young — with the devs revealing in their February 26, 2021 investors day video that over half of the total users are under the age of 13.
Image via Roblox.com. Roblox, one of the most popular global gaming platforms, adds a polarizing new feature that has fans divided: Voice chat, or more specifically, “safe” voice chat, is on its way to the platform, announced by Roblox Corporation during their annual investors day.
This alone can turn players completely off from the platform altogether. Although Voice Chat (if even coming to Roblox) is most likely going to be a feature for 13+ users only, for safety reasons it still frightens me a lot. — MiniTwon (@MiniTwon) February 26, 2021.
Safety and chat moderation has always been a priority for Roblox Corporation, so exactly how they intend to put the “ safe” in “safe voice chat” is unclear, but the method in how they do so will certainly be a contributing factor in how Roblox can maintain their priority to the safety of their players.
Roblox has been developing the voice chat feature since 2019.
31, 2020, Roblox had processed more than 2 billion chat messages daily. In the future, we expect to open up communication through safe voice chat, said Miller.
Though Roblox is a game for kids, it is available to people of all ages. Adding a voice chat feature to Roblox might expose younger children to inappropriate topics or bad language said between older players.
During the same meeting, Vice President of Engineering at Roblox Adam Miller said that text chat is the core of the company’s communication today. In the future, Roblox expects to open up communication via safe voice chat, said Miller.
A release date for this feature of Roblox hasn’t been announced either, but the display names can be anything the players want them to be.
So, is Roblox adding voice chat feature? Yes, it is. The online game platform is all set to add a new voice chat feature. To answer the question as to when the Roblox voice chat feature is going to be live, reports suggest that there’s no release date announced by the company but the feature is expected to arrive soon in 2021.
According to a FAQ on Roblox’s website, when a child signs up for a Roblox account, text chat settings are automatically restricted by the website so that they can send messages only to those players they have accepted as ‘Friends’. Parents also have the power to disable the chat function in Roblox.
Spatial Voice Beta is a new feature that allows people to communicate in Roblox as naturally as they communicate in the physical world.
Eligible, age-verified, age 13+ users will see a microphone icon next to the user name and above the avatar of other users that have voice chat enabled. Users will not otherwise be able to see who does or does not have Spatial Voice.
You can mute another user in a Spatial Voice experience by clicking the microphone icon that will appear over their avatar’s head. Mutes only apply to voice chat and not text chat and will only last while you are in that experience session.