Voice Chat?

[ToubaboKoomi]

I honestly think party voice chat and maybe even linkshell voice chat would be a cool thing to implement in game. It gets annoying having to use 3rd party programs that you would have to alt-tab out to use, thus making it so you can't play fullscreen and voice chat with your friends at the same time.

[Vahzl]

It would be great, but before more things are broken, lets get the game in a playable state. WoW's voice chat never worked properly, it's ok and all, but Ventrilo/Teamspeak are much more viable options.

Maybe suggest this again once development is back on track.

[Belial]

Yes, I would strongly advise using a third party program for voice chat to prevent unwanted access from annoying party members, etc.

Ventrilo is a great and popular option, however FF14 runs systems very hard, so if you want something a little more lightweight, Mumble is a great choice.

[NeoEarth]

I would love this option simply because then squeenix could adjust the mix when people speak.

We use vent, but I generally have to mute FFXIV which blows cuz FFXIV sounds/music is a big part of the overall experience.

[Zenaku]

They said no they wont add voice chat due to PS3 --> PC issue and top of that there no way to deal with harassment issue over a voice chat. So sadly they said no to voice chat look at wow? they have it does anyone use the system? nope

[NeoEarth]

It rocked in LOTRO btw. When you joined a party, you were dialed into that channel. It would be logical to provide an LS channel as well.

[zaviermhigo]

They could add voice chat to ps3 that a bs thing, DCUO has it (even thought its glitchy I blame that on SOE), if DCUO is on PS3 and has voice chat than I think PC and PS3 version of FFXIV could handle it. Sounds more like "i dont want to make voice servers for this game" which is understandable I guess.

[Zenaku]

They could add voice chat to ps3 that a bs thing, DCUO has it (even thought its glitchy I blame that on SOE), if DCUO is on PS3 and has voice chat than I think PC and PS3 version of FFXIV could handle it. Sounds more like "i dont want to make voice servers for this game" which is understandable I guess.

Yes but DCUO is not cross platform which is the issue here PS3 --> Voice chat --> PC is what they have issue with. Not if DCUO became cross platform and am wrong here. They would have to ask Sony for help and i think they don't want to waste money just to add voice chat. Best think that would happen if PS3 was allow to use Vent,TS and mumble while playing a online game this would fix that issue.

And you still have the harassment issue not the NA,EU,DU but the JP is the issue when it come to harassment. Don't know about you guys but i got a /tell from a JP for /check and he would call a GM on him. I also saw many players getting ban for 73hours for /check a JP i talk to a few jp who knew ENG and he said some find that harassment.

[Cutriss]

And you still have the harassment issue not the NA,EU,DU but the JP is the issue when it come to harassment. Don't know about you guys but i got a /tell from a JP for /check and he would call a GM on him. I also saw many players getting ban for 73hours for /check a JP i talk to a few jp who knew ENG and he said some find that harassment.

Isn't this gone in XIV? Or is it just filtered out by default? I know my wife told me she didn't see messages when I /check'd her.

At any rate, they said no to voice support in XI because they thought it would be too jarring to hear Tarutarus with husky, deep voices, men playing Mithras, etc. Basically they didn't want to support it because not everyone would use it the same way.

[Zenaku]

Isn't this gone in XIV? Or is it just filtered out by default? I know my wife told me she didn't see messages when I /check'd her.

At any rate, they said no to voice support in XI because they thought it would be too jarring to hear Tarutarus with husky, deep voices, men playing Mithras, etc. Basically they didn't want to support it because not everyone would use it the same way.

Yes it filtered out by default you can't tell when someone /check you thank you SE in FFXI was a pain in the butt some jp /tell you "/check no thanks you can have this GM -.- it was really dumb of them but w/e.

They said no on ffxiv because it be to hard to make pc--> ps3 voice chat work and they need a lot of help from sony top of that harassment issue lol.

But this was with tanaka who know what Yoshi-p would do