In Game Chat (Why is there no option for this yet! It is kind of archaic not to have)

[Surian]

Heck, i dont want to use this either. We've been happily typing through things for ages now.

Why would you force me to listen to 12 year old boys who sound like little girls, screaming at you to take a certain position? Or all the diffirent accents, diffirent mic volumes and diffirent languages being used?

Last thing i want to do after comming home from a long day of work is to shout through a microphone in a foreign language so people can hear me. I want to sit down, play and relax. And maybe type a thing or two.

If you need to do something hard that doesnt allow for a lot of typing, explain the fight before hand. Or make warning Macro's. Or just use shorthand or type words. I can type lots of things in between ability cooldowns, and i'm tanking even. Just think of what more you can do being a lazy DPS class.

[Yoly]

Everyone, and I do mean everyone, that I have spoken with (on Excalibur and Behemoth) agrees that an in-game chat option should be placed. There are ps3 and ps4 people being shunned from end game content because they do not have voice chat (TS3, Vent, Mumble).

Other MMOs offer this ability as an option. To keep up to date with what gamers want then the devs of ffxiv should offer in game voice chat as well. We pay monthly fees to play this game and we expect to play a game with options that should be standard within all MMOs that have raiding dungeons.

If you do not want to use the voice chat, that is your choice. If you are a racist that can not stand other languages and accents, well... that's your problem.

I recommend that the voice chat option be available only in 8+ man instances, where it is truly needed.

[Cassandaria]

Everyone, and I do mean everyone, that I have spoken with (on Excalibur and Behemoth) agrees that an in-game chat option should be placed.

You've never talked to me then, I'm on Excalibur and quite frankly I think the idea of a forced in game chat system is not just a bad idea, but one that is rife with potential issues that i have no desire to deal with. The connection is spotty at best already, forcing new code for something that requires additional connectivity with the servers that already have such lag issues is just not something I'm willing to deal with. The game is optimized to allow people on lower end connections to play in the first place, I don't think it's fair to take that away because of the concept of including something that can easily be added by many third party options.

[SafeOnBlock]

You've never talked to me then, I'm on Excalibur and quite frankly I think the idea of a forced in game chat system is not just a bad idea, but one that is rife with potential issues that i have no desire to deal with. The connection is spotty at best already, forcing new code for something that requires additional connectivity with the servers that already have such lag issues is just not something I'm willing to deal with. The game is optimized to allow people on lower end connections to play in the first place, I don't think it's fair to take that away because of the concept of including something that can easily be added by many third party options.

My reply is posted below