How can this game not have built in voice chat?

[LeonBlade]

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Dude, if you want voice chat then go use a third party program. Not everyone in the game wants to talk, there are tons of people who are uncomfortable talking, or CAN'T TALK, have you ever thought about those people? What about people that can't hear either? How about players that can't speak a certain language well, but can type it just fine.

From what I've heard multiple times, Japanese groups never use voice chat, and they get on just fine... You don't NEED voice chat in an MMO, if you feel like it's necessary, then use a third party solution.

As for your ridiculous female gamer comment, this really applies to everyone, but because you mentioned females, you do realize there are going to be a bunch of guys being perverted etc because that's how immature guys are. As for bandwidth, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. If Square Enix provided voice chat, this would mean that you'd either be connected with P2P which would expose your IP to other players, or relayed through a server which is MASSIVE bandwidth costs on Square Enix for something that not everyone will even want to use, and the entire idea of the infrastructure for this gives me a headache...

We don't need voice chat in this game, if you want it, go ahead and use it. Personally, I use TeamSpeak with my static, but I don't want it integrated into the game.