MIC Usage

[serendipity]

I think there should be some sort of optional battle party mic link up if possible.....also i think SE should take advantage of today's technology and throw in a speech to text translator lol and have that in party chat text

[Evangela]

yeah, if they don't want players to use a 3rd party mic application. please implement the built-in mic function for party/LS

[Petori]

3rd party software work just fine for that.

[Reinheart]

SE said we can't use Vent because its considered 3rd party? OMG how about if I chat on MSN... it loads, logs me in automatically on windows start... OMG I don't know how to turn it off just for FF... OMG OMG OMG

Without Vent in FFXI I probably couldn't of lead dynamis talking to other group leaders to manage tactics... don't want to filter all the battle log; I want to see how much damage I got owned with, my friends got over killed by mobs! At same time don't want to look through all the log to talk to other group leaders, friends....

Was there a result from devs if mic/vchat app was considered 3rd party?? or do I need a 2nd PC/laptop just to run voice chat so its not considered 3rd party running on same pc....

[Jynx]

SE said we can't use Vent because its considered 3rd party?

I don't mention them saying this for XIV. If anything they are just stating they can't guarantee the quality / reliabillity of 3rd party programs. As long as they don't interact with the game client itself it can't be considered against ToS. Especially now that they gave us the option to put the game into windowed mode.

Windower was considered against ToS because it allowed you to play the game windowed when the function did not exist so the program modified the game itself to allow it.

[Reinheart]

I don't mention them saying this for XIV. If anything they are just stating they can't guarantee the quality / reliabillity of 3rd party programs. As long as they don't interact with the game client itself it can't be considered against ToS. Especially now that they gave us the option to put the game into windowed mode.

Windower was considered against ToS because it allowed you to play the game windowed when the function did not exist so the program modified the game itself to allow it.

Yep remember when windower wasn't allowed in XI... that was one of the dumbest thing I didn't get in FFXI... on the other hand in FFXI ALT+TAB worked.... why can't XIV even fix that....

[Jynx]

From what I understand it's some sort of issue with Direct X, but I'm not game designer but I can't see the massive issue in fixing it. All we know is they are looking into it.

[kukurumei]

I don't see how they can stop vent running in the background.

But definite no to integration. Doesn't work well on an international level.

speech to text translators...are how shall we say it...horribly inferior. Though if you want to buy a highly specialized program to "learn" your speech pattern, feel free.

[Dubont]

no to ingame voice chat. It is kind of lame..

[Wynn]

DDO (pre-free version) completely turned me off to the idea of integrated voice chat in video games. Too many issues to even begin to list them.