Can we please get voice chat?

[Shioban]

There have been MANY threads started and finished on this matter, PLEASE use the search function.
I found at least 6.

There has already been a developer response for this, they feel it would be better cost wise and for general convenience sake to avoid this.


The costs are extremely high to set it up, there are plenty of alternative options, they feel it wouldn't be worth adding as a result of these things.

If you don't feel like looking it up, it boils down to this;

•Pros

Fast, Effective Communication for;
Dungeons/Raids/General Communication

PS3/PS4 players would benefit from the convenience


•Cons

Implementation Time/Cost (Hundreds of thousands to set-up servers for dedicated voice-channels)

Expensive Data Management Costs (Maintaining the extra bandwidth is rather costly)
Voice chat would add more pressure to the data centers which could potentially affect the overall performance of the games network response times.

Concerns about it becoming a "necessity" on players

Potential Discrimination (Albeit very small/infrequent) this is a minor concern

3rd Party programmes for personal computers and mobile devices exist are so easily accessible now, they felt voice-chat would simply be a waste of development time as a result with so many 3rd party options avaliable