Raiding and Teamspeak.

[Judge_Xero]

the stigma is you HAVE to use it.

I was just curious because as a stigma it would indicate that people who don't use a VOIP are looked down upon. I had never heard of that before.

The only conflicting situations I've seen are where people are unable to handle mechanics and would benefit from having things called out over voice.

I don't think in that regard a player is being looked down upon for not using VOIP but rather because they lack skill.

VOIP > Skill is just never something I've witnessed.

[CrimsonThunder]

VOIP > Skill is just never something I've witnessed.

Many believe that these two are one in the same, that surely how could anyone be a decent progression raider without using VOIP? This is where the issue comes from and it's more prominent in FFXIV because half the community is playing on a console, not a PC.

[Eothas]

VOIP > Skill is just never something I've witnessed.

It does happen, not sure how frequent in FFXIV though. I remember when playing Wildstar, whenever using "duty finder" there, It was quite common to enter a dungeon with a premade group that would demand you to enter their TS/Mumble server or else they would kick you. I got kicked a few times for not wanting to enter TS with a bunch of randoms even though I could do the dungeons perfectly.