Ps4/Xbox1/PC Voice Chat

[gddanimations]

Same here as some of the others. I'm on a PS4 and when there is need for me to connect with someone I just fire up my phone or laptop on Discord next to me. I would much rather do that than have the looming shadow of forced chat for everything.

[Magic-Mal]

Voice chat does nothing but annoy me lol. I don't think we need more ways to connect. It's just fine. Teamspeak, etc, are already universal O.o

[Reila_Circus]

If voice chat is important to you then theres plenty of third party options that are available to you that probably work a hell of a lot better than PSN or even a built-in voice chat. In fact, if it's a program you can use for your smart phone, you can use it to get a hold of other players in your raid group who are offline, if they have nothing going on then it'd be another option to try to get one of them to go online and join instead of using PF.

If I remember right, WoW had implemented an in-game voice chat a few years back, but every one just kept on using third party chat programs like Ventrilo due to the fact that in-game chat sucked so hard.

[nexas506]

Your third party programs are only for PC players to talk with PC players unless your gonna use your cell phone for mumble which imo is stupid.

I play on ps4 and I have a headset and the discord app on my phone. This works quite well for me, since my computer is in another room, answer I'm sitting on my couch.

[Uchia]

It would be nice to have an in-game voice-chat as option to join for raids, you don't have to join it if you know what you're doing since you don't need voice chat to beat any content in this game. Then there's the problem where many third party programs don't work well for other people an the group/persons won't switch to other programs that work for the person affected. There's in-game voice-chat on DCUO between PC, PS4 and PS3 and they only added PC players to it this year an it works fine and it is optional not forced, so the developers just need to git gud.

[Vivi_Bushido]

Maybe it's me but people don't seem to want to socialize in an 'MMO'

This goes with the chat box to not just voice. Can't tell you how many times I've seen people join an FC and never, and I mean ever speak after joining; even when you say hi to them.

The anti-socialism in this game is real.

[Lokier]

Maybe it's me but people don't seem to want to socialize in an 'MMO'

This goes with the chat box to not just voice. Can't tell you how many times I've seen people join an FC and never, and I mean ever speak after joining; even when you say hi to them.

The anti-socialism in this game is real.

I think that comes down to people liking how MMOs play but not really being there to interact with people.
I mean, that's me in a nutshell; I really like MMOs, and have done since I was about 12 playing vanilla WoW and Runescape, however never once have I played an MMO for the social aspect. If I go through the entire game with no friends that really doesn't concern or bother me. I'm pretty sure that's how it is for most other people who play in silence.

I'm in an FC and sometimes talk to them but in the 3-4 months I've actually been playing I've not made any friends with anyone, and I really don't mind.

[NovaLevossida]

I'm getting PTSD flashbacks of people defending the Wii U's lack of cross-game / party chat (ie, not having features the Xbox 360 had) by justifying it via using other hardware to do it. XIV's case is not nearly as bad as a console manufacturer dropping the ball though.

[Lulu89]

This isn't Needed. There are countless 3rd party programs that already do this and SE doesn't seen to spend time on it.

3rd Party programs will work on PC and Apple and Android Cell phones .. No need to spend time on this.

That's not true, there are many PS4 players on this game, and to a point just as many PC players. It been a good move and make it easyer for ps4 guild/groups to team up and just talk over a party chat.. Hell in more for a party chat, them a ps4 chat.. So any one in the party with a mic and it on can just take will make clearing run much easyer and faster and if you don't like it turn it ff.

[Hammerhorn]

I get the feeling alot of you against this in game voice chat are scared, scared that someone will put together clear groups that requires voice chat. Would it be so horrible.? After all isnt this a MMO shouldnt we be social ? Ive been with people who say they are in A8 content and proceed to screw up all the A5 mechanics because they didnt want to join voice because they were "too good " to be told anything. Cross platform voice chat is the future get on board.