Voice Chat?

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Thing about player made "rules" such as "voice chat is now mandatory" is they are very easily defeated by proper enforcement of the ToS. If SE never made the voice chat mandatory (and I doubt they ever would) if you ever got kicked or harassed for not using it in a random duty then you can report that. As for private parties (premades) we already have the right to impose whatever rules we want and indeed people already do post parties to the PF that REQUIRE 3rd party voice chat. I think there is too much fear mongering going on regarding it becoming mandatory.


I also think it's kinda ironic that people are simultaneously saying it would suck so bad that no one would use it and that if it were implemented it would be enforced as a new meta.

Kicked for difference in playstyle - or kicked without given a reason. We dont even go so far as having to kick someone - lets just think of the following scenario: Group wipes to any given boss.
Player A: That would have never happend if everyone would be using the voice chat and we called out mechanics!
Player B: But... I dont want to use the voice chat...
Player A: Then is your fault we're not clearing this dungeon!
Player C: Salut! [Continuing in french]

Its not even about being kicked or not - its already about "if we dont clear this its your fault because you werent on voice chat!"
It could be used to outright lie to new players and unsettle them - even if the ToS would say "Participation in voice chat is not mandatory to play this game" - a group can easly say "Look, if the devs thought we could do this without voice chat, they'd never introduce it. You really have to use it, if you want to do this content!"

PF parties with such requirements are different - because you know that they expect you to join their voice chat before you join the party and can then choose if you wnat to do that or not. They also require it most likely for more difficult content - and not for an expert dungeon. So, there is your difference...

Also, again: harrassment within voice chat would be more difficult to track down and turn into "he said, she said" - unless they'd make audiologs which would put even more stress on the severs on the hand and on the other hand might be tricky with privacy-policy.