Voice Chat?

[DaikiKiyoshi]

show me and the millions of subscribers where it says on the box that the final fantasy 14 development team said " players must have voice chat to complete any of the content we created"

i'll save you the effort , it's not there, believe it or not there is groups of people who clear all content without using voice chat.

P.S they actually type with their keyboards ( oh the horror i have to use my fingers ??!!! when i even typing on the games forum too, how dare square enix not force the player base to use voice chat)

No one said players must have voice chat ever??? Still don't know where you are getting this. It was a request for an additional QoL feature. Not a mandatory one.

[Vidu]

No one said players must have voice chat ever??? Still don't know where you are getting this. It was a request for an additional QoL feature. Not a mandatory one.

You see, the problem here is that as soon as there is a voice chat in game, people can and will be all like "Now you have to use it, its the way this game is meant to be played!"
Implementing a voice chat - specially if it would be for example only for duties, as some people here seem to suggest (or even if the voice chat would automatically create chat rooms for each duty) - would be sending the strong message of "You need this to play the game"
And even if no one in your party is pressuring you directly, for a new player this feature could be very "confusing" (lack of a better word right now - what I mean by that is: This might be the first MMO or online game for a lot of people, so they're not used to voice chat etc. and even if they are, they might not be comfortable with it. Having this inbuilt voice chat could easly lead to them being all like "Do... do I have to use it now? Is this what the game expects of me...?")

[Jijifli]

No one said players must have voice chat ever??? Still don't know where you are getting this. It was a request for an additional QoL feature. Not a mandatory one.

If it's poor, it'll be a waste of resources.

If it's good, players WILL make it a requirement. I personally am fine in voice chat most of the time (Even though I run my mouth.) However, someone who is new to the game, or more concerned, will be afraid to. And players will throw fits over it, resulting in it being harder for that player for basically no fault of their own here. Until dungeons require communication, voice chat won't appear in game because it'll feel too pressuring for players to join it.

That's actually why on WoW I learned about the voice chat, because despite how crappy it was, people in Deadmines were so stingy about it, that it was the only way I was ever going to see that content (This was before dungeon finder.)