In-game voicechat

[Nevaldus]

Will we ever get in-game voicechat, not in general but for instances (for 24 mans, just your alliance) Since a lot of problems we are getting is lack of communication when doing new content or hard content, eve with PvP, the feast is frustrating with it's current communication methods, i believe voicechat in-game would fix this.

You could have an option to mute others, and if you don't have a mic, you can still communicate via text, it can be restricted to instanced parties.

I cannot be the only who feels a lot more can be accomplished with direct communication through word of mouth, it's faster, say a mechanic is coming up that you forgot, someone could call it out, whereas if they were to type it, it might be too late, or they might make a mistake while typing.

Just my thoughts, what are yours?

[ElHeggunte]

There's no point in SE wasting time and resources on a low-quality built-in voice comm when there are plenty of good, free programs out there such as Discord.

[Jas710]

I've been advocating for an in-game VoIP for ages. I get the usual "but why, when players already use ts3, Discord, Mumble, etc" from folks. So whatevers.

Maybe the devs share the same view. Maybe there are bandwidth technical issues. Maybe there are technical rules the console manufacturers have in place. Maybe it feeds into the dev's paranoia that it would be used 99% of the time for harassment. Who knows at this point.

But from my perspective, they should put one in anyway. It would provide the game with a consistent baseline VoIP that could unite all current and future platform support, instead of console players reaching for their smartphone app or the console's party chat.

Maybe the quality won't be as good as the third party VoIPs are nowadays, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.

Might be a good idea to add it to the Q&A live letter thread they have going on at the moment. They are gathering potential questions to ask the devs.

[Magic-Mal]

Yoshi specifically stated he didn't want an in-game voice chat because of harassment and also harassment specifically towards female players. VoIP harassment can't be recorded, therefore, you can't report a person and have evidence.

Discord, TeamSpeak, etc, are 3rd party tools and are not Yoshi's responsibility(he can't stop it either way) so it's fair game there.

And I agree 100% with Yoshi. Public voice chat is almost always very annoying.

Here's one answer he gave regarding VC

Voice chat wasn’t enabled in the recent beta. Will it be integrated in the full version of the game?

Naoki Yoshida: We do not plan on offering official support for voice chat. To explain that decision, the idea of talking directly to other players with your own voice and making it a requirement to do so will not necessarily be a good thing for beginners and new players and many will see it as imposing pressure or causing them unnecessary stress.

I am personally a veteran online gamer so I completely understand the importance of voice chat but if we were to make it an officially supported feature then there is a chance that some players would start to demand that others use it just because it is an “official feature”.

Of course, we will not be prohibiting external voice chat via Skype etc, so individual player communities can still sort out their own preferred means of communication!

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013...-realm-reborn/

[GMERC]

Literally no reason to port voice chat through the game's servers. Use a third party voice client.

[Fluffernuff]

Considering what SE pulled with the Feast, I highly doubt they are open to allow more communication options

[Jas710]

Have fun with that.

[Yeol]

I doubt we will have in game voice chat for the reasons stated above.

If you want communication in a learning party, the leader might have a channel set up for training.
Or I ask when joining if they are communicating through voice and willing to share their channel address or not.

[seekified]

Considering the very multilingual playerbase on Chaos, and my assumption that everyone would just jabber on in their native language with no regard for their fellows, please no.

And I also think Yoshi has a decent point regarding harassment etc.

[Alestorm]

World of Warcraft had a system (recently reinstated, though never used) As soon as people saw how bad and unreliable it was everyone went back to Vent or Skype. Nowadays it's Discord for raid party chat.