Too many screaming NPCs

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Ok, I have tried to not mention this, but someone has to.

What is with the NPCs these days? They used to be useful, quiet characters, that spoke a LITTLE, and only at appropriate places. Raids were full of this stupidly ‘dramatic’ screaming ‘voice acting’ crap, but that’s just the nature of the thing, and almost tolerable.

But now EVERY place is full of speaking, screaming, dialog-filled NPCs that FLOOD the chat (although players are not allowed to ‘spam’), and who scream the same stupid litany of insulting crap at the beginning of Seethign Shore (a BG with yelling NPC! NO! NO ONE WANTS THAT! MUTE IT, PLEASE!, or give option to mute NPC dialogue without muting player dialogue, thank you).

Also Arenas have these screaming annoyances suddely. They’re not wanted, WHO thought it was a good idea?

This is what blizz does, it puts Stormwind full of some weird dialogue by NPCs to make the game seem alive, instead of FIXING the game so players would naturally come back.

It’s like blizz went NPC-happy, and it’s time to stop it. Mobs can kill people in the world so easily now, and even in BGs!

Don’t put PvE in my PvP (vehicles, NPCs, collecting), and don’t put talking, screaming NPCs every damn where. They’re even in dungeons now, and I can’t stand them. They’re irritating, and serve NO useful purpose. Let us play dungeons, arenas, BGs and world PvP without having to listen to these bad voice actors scream to our ears.

We’re paying customers, could you PLEASE take our humble wishes into account? These are reasonable requests - please make everything OPTIONAL. Give us options, give us CUSTOMization, please!

Oh, one forum request - if you accidentally type ‘too short title’ (what is this weird title-fascism?), this irritating button starts shaking at your cursor, even WHILE YOU ARE TRYING TO TYPE A LONGER ONE.

Let us at least edit the topic title text NORMALLY, and ONLY complain after… A_F_T_E_R we have clicked the ‘Save Edit’, NOT IN REAL-TIME, GEEZ!!

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Yes, there sure are a LOT more moving, chatting - though maybe not actually screaming - NPCs in the new cities than there used to be, and waaaaay more than is necessary or good.

Downsize them, please!

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I actually like it. I love NPC’s moving around, chatting, doing stuff etc.
It makes the world feel more alive when every single NPC isn’t just idly standing somewhere 24/7.

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Yes, take away the NPC’s, who likes immersive gameplay anyways… Not that it has been asked for or wanted…

Complaining on a live environment in a mmorp, lol. :woman_facepalming:

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The NPCs must have played Vanilla.

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For a second I thought you were referring to the far left regressive PC SJW types that act like NPCs :joy::joy:

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What a stupid OP with an obnoxious complaint.

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Yeah this has bothered me a bit. Sometimes you get multiple NPCs talking over each other out of sync, it’s a mess.

And for example in Warfronts, we get that stupid ‘dark warden’ (can’t even remember her name) who sounds like she has a dreadful cold, telling us what to do even if we have ran the Warfront a billion times already.
Oh thanks for that, Warfronts are very complex and difficult, please keep talking…and talking…and talking…

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NPCs don’t really annoy me, except for one thing I notice more and more.

It’s their desync issue. Either the text doesn’t match their speech… Or they just cut mid-speech to start another line. That tends to annoy me.

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Dont forget to mention flight paths. When flying from a to b, you pass over world quests and the text boxes just start spamming you while multiple voices go “blablablabla!”!

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Just download YouOnlyHearOnce addon, and you’ll never ever see that stuff after first time. Ever again.

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"Citizens of Dalaran!..

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There is nothing worse then npcs screamig every time u land at flight path/accidentally walk into wq area(port of zandalar) breaks immersion aa fck ;(

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If you don’t like them, turn them off.

You have a chat options menu. Turn them off to not show up in your chat, either at all, or in their own window.

I love the talking and screaming NPC’s, I have however made myself 2 chat windows, and the NPC dialogues are tied to the second window, where no vital info or player communication is posted. You can also turn them complete off.

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This used to drive me nuts

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That was so spammed… Yet Method players that took the WoW boss voice quiz barely knew who it was lol. I found that funny.

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