"You need Voice Chat to do Coil"

[diulalasing]

I did coil multiple times without voice chat

omg, i can read people's mind?

[InVizO]

I did coil multiple times without voice chat

omg, i can read people's mind?

You or some of your party weren't all doing it for the first time then obviously.

[NeoAmon]

If a Turn is yet not on farm then yeah Voice chat is almost always a must. If your group been doing Coil for a while and everyone knows what they are doing, yeah you can afford not to be on Voice chat.

Personally, no voice chat no coil even when my group clears everything up to T5 under an hour. I rather have a social interaction with people while raiding and voice chat makes it easier plus forces the entire group to focus when needed.

[TrickedOutHoro]

Guess i'll be studying up then, VC simply isn't an option.

[Mezolitik]

Didn't the developers say that voice chat was deliberately left out so that people wouldn't be pressured into using it? The same with PVP not forming part of the main story; it's too divisive. I read that somewhere.

Ergo, voice chat is probably a preference, rather than a requirement.

I, personally, would like the option.

[KogaDrake]

Didn't the developers say that voice chat was deliberately left out so that people wouldn't be pressured into using it? The same with PVP not forming part of the main story; it's too divisive. I read that somewhere.

Ergo, voice chat is probably a preference, rather than a requirement.

I, personally, would like the option.

I recall it actually being said by Yoshi-P in one of the live letters before launch that it was something that should be used to actually succeed at end game, but they left it out of the game as it is too easy to harass people in voice (and have no record of it in a log) and that it is only really useful/needed for a small amount of content (and content that only a subset of players will even do) and more bad could come of it then actual good. same reason given for no tells in instances (something that is also very useful in raids w/o voice).

[TeaTimeBear]

I recall it actually being said by Yoshi-P in one of the live letters before launch that it was something that should be used to actually succeed at end game, but they left it out of the game as it is too easy to harass people in voice (and have no record of it in a log) and that it is only really useful/needed for a small amount of content (and content that only a subset of players will even do) and more bad could come of it then actual good. same reason given for no tells in instances (something that is also very useful in raids w/o voice).

I think that's ridiculous. Why? We get harassed by RMT on a daily basis, but we can block said tells or even channels.. So why not give the ability to block such with voice??? The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of one, having the option to choose and block or turn off makes far more sense to me.

[Gilraen]

I think that's ridiculous. Why? We get harassed by RMT on a daily basis, but we can block said tells or even channels.. So why not give the ability to block such with voice??? The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of one, having the option to choose and block or turn off makes far more sense to me.

Guess you haven't played many Xbox games, then. Verbal abuse may not be on your list of 'things that are a thing' but it's taken pretty seriously in other games. Take League of Legends, devs have literally banned players over verbal abuse, something that's been in gaming news repeatedly. And it's pretty much par for course to have people being abusive on Xbox Live. "But you can mute that person so /shrug" is fine and dandy but what if that person happens to be one of the people organizing the party? Mute them and lose half the strategy? You can't control who's going to be abusive and who's not so it's just better not to have it.

[TrickedOutHoro]

Guess you haven't played many Xbox games, then. Verbal abuse may not be on your list of 'things that are a thing' but it's taken pretty seriously in other games. Take League of Legends, devs have literally banned players over verbal abuse, something that's been in gaming news repeatedly. And it's pretty much par for course to have people being abusive on Xbox Live. "But you can mute that person so /shrug" is fine and dandy but what if that person happens to be one of the people organizing the party? Mute them and lose half the strategy? You can't control who's going to be abusive and who's not so it's just better not to have it.

No, just no. That's laziness.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Seeing as I was kicked from a FC for not using a voice chat program to run Coil with them, I can't say I really care for voice chat as a requirement. For all my FC's leader knew, I could have been a deaf mute. How is this even remotely fair?

Secondly, they completely don't even take into consideration the fact that, oh, I don't know... Maybe you're playing on PS3 and you're not even close to your PC so you can use a voice chat program in the first place? That or they assume you have an iPhone, or some shit, capable of doing it. People that state voice chat is a requirement are going under a lot of assumptions, therefore I don't think it's really fair to consider it a requirement.

An option to help members? Sure, I can understand that. A requirement though? No. You do not need voice chat to get through end game content.