FFXIV and voice chat why I hate it and why SE must put one on

[ruskie]

A good player will identify where he or she has messed up and will adjust accordingly.

I'd like to add to that "A good party will identify where something got messed up and adjust accordingly". And you don't need VoIP for that. You just need to use your brain and look around you.

Problem is that a lot of players seem to follow guides blindly and will argue with anything deviating from them.

One of the more fun examples is placing meteors in T9... tons of patterns... our approach dump them at the outside and then dump the golems mid... sometimes someone lags or something and a rock will be placed where a golem needs to go. A good party will adjust to that and just move the few yalms over to a safe spot. But seen too many people blindly following guides and wipping.

I think the BEST place you can see where people don't use their brains is in ramuh extreme. All the tank/free rob macros etc...

[SevenHeavens]

I don't want to hear random kids while I play this game.

[Renik]

-Technical issues, no server upgrades would make it work properly, they would need an ISP upgrade which is too expensive.
-Harassment.
-Preferences, even if some people see it as and advantage others don't for several reasons, implementing it as an in-game feature would make it mandatory for some people who don't want to use it.
-the possibility of using free and paying VOIP sofwares.

If i remember correctly these are SE's reasons to not implement it, and i agree with them all, so if you want voice chat use one of the lot you have on the internet, i prefer to see my money invested in content instead of a tool which is not needed and will cause more troubles than anything.

[Elusana_Celah]

REX is awful... it's literally just watching the tank debuffs on the party list. When you see the offtank has 3 stacks the orbs are up for grabs for the next thunderstorm. After that thunderstorm, the following one tank will grab again, once that tank is 3 stacks the orbs are fair game again. It's just a rotation yet you gotta spam macros to get people to pay attention. Why is it so hard to pay attention? It feels like people don't really care if they win or not lol.

[XNihili]

Furthermore I can probably make sense of some of the badly written english-like(?) doodle some players type but I won't understand their high pitched prepubescent Texas accent riddled kiddy slang. Sorry.