Ps4/Xbox1/PC Voice Chat

[Zumi]

Social yes, Voice Chat no. You can be social via the chat box and typing. I do not want voice chat in the game. People will start trying to force you to join or kick you. No thanks.

I don't need to listen to whiny teens, vulgar people, or drunks when trying to play the game. I have never used voice chat and will not ever use it.

Most raid groups won't let you join their static if you don't join their voice chat already. A lot of the savage fights would be very much harder if you did not use voice chat for better communication.

[Hammerhorn]

You people saying no are just scared , Im sorry but theres plenty of games with in game voice chat and guess what you can mute people and choose not to speak. Not wanting to communicate because your scared you might hear bad people , kids , lions , tigers and bears oh my! What if you hear awsome people willing to teach others how to overcome a battle? What if you learn something instead of being shut off in your own little island? Dear god what if ... you make friends!!!!! ZOMG!!!! Get the tin foil hats!!!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Maybe people just don't like voice chat in general. Stop trying to act like as if they're hermits.

[Hammerhorn]

Why limit me or others like me to what they fear why defend no voice chat in game ?

[Black_Wing]

Your third party programs are only for PC players to talk with PC players unless your gonna use your cell phone for mumble which imo is stupid.

How is it stupid? Also, Discord is the better option. Voice chat would be a wasted endeavor anyway as it will go mostly unused by the majority of the player base. I've rarely encountered mic users in multiplayer games on consoles..and those that do tend to have extremely loud music playing the background or screeching kids and have no decency to turn off their mic.

[Hammerhorn]

Its stupid because we have a 500$ piece of Technology (ps4)that has full capabilities to comunicate with other systems if the powers that be work out . Some people still gave crap phones that wont support things like ventrillo or mumble , the PC players seem out of touch with the Ps4 community , they say oh just Skype ... well what if people dont have Skype? What if people dont have money for a iphone or a laptop or a PC. Why choose to limit the capabilities of the Ps4 ?

[Lambdafish]

Most raid groups won't let you join their static if you don't join their voice chat already. A lot of the savage fights would be very much harder if you did not use voice chat for better communication.

The dev team unofficially advocates the use of third party tools to talk during raiding, and they are free and easily accessible to everyone. The dev team doesn't need to spend time working on this as the third party route means that A) they don't have to develop it, and B) they aren't liable for the many disadvantages of voice chat (harassment, especially females, anxiety, voice identification etc.)

[HyoMinPark]

Its stupid because we have a 500$ piece of Technology (ps4)that has full capabilities to comunicate with other systems if the powers that be work out . Some people still gave crap phones that wont support things like ventrillo or mumble , the PC players seem out of touch with the Ps4 community , they say oh just Skype ... well what if people dont have Skype? What if people dont have money for a iphone or a laptop or a PC. Why choose to limit the capabilities of the Ps4 ?

I'm sorry, but this logic makes no sense to me.

You have a $300 piece of equipment (PS4--most are around $300 nowadays where I live), but you are insinuating that people owning these expensive consoles don't also have a cell phone or a laptop? Or Skype? I mean, Skype is free to use. It's not like you have to pay for it. And I don't know many people in this day-in-age that don't have a cell phone and/or personal computer or laptop.

I don't raid, but my FC members and I talk to one another using discord. Some of them play on PC. I play on PS4 and I just have my laptop there running discord as I play. Not that hard to do.

[Reila_Circus]

You people saying no are just scared , Im sorry but theres plenty of games with in game voice chat and guess what you can mute people and choose not to speak. Not wanting to communicate because your scared you might hear bad people , kids , lions , tigers and bears oh my! What if you hear awsome people willing to teach others how to overcome a battle? What if you learn something instead of being shut off in your own little island? Dear god what if ... you make friends!!!!! ZOMG!!!! Get the tin foil hats!!!

Sounds to me your just too lazy, stubborn, or a kid. "Waaahhh why isn't there voice chat?!" "Well, heres various other options that you can easily use. While not in-game, they provide a great service while the devs can focus on more important things like new content, bug fixes, etc." "Waaaahhhh your just scared!"

Honestly, if communicating with players in-game is so important to you, then use the third-party programs, tablets aren't that expensive and headsets aren't either. Hell, in my last FC we all use Ventrilo to get clear in the coil raids back in 2.0 while almost everyone played on different platforms. Some on PC, some on PS4, we even had a healer on PS3 and we all used the same chat program to clear it and have a good time.

"But what if we can't afford a smartphone, tablet or laptop/PC?" Well, if moneys your big concern then why the hell are you playing an MMO?

[Yurimi]

Its stupid because we have a 500$ piece of Technology (ps4)that has full capabilities to comunicate with other systems if the powers that be work out . Some people still gave crap phones that wont support things like ventrillo or mumble , the PC players seem out of touch with the Ps4 community , they say oh just Skype ... well what if people dont have Skype? What if people dont have money for a iphone or a laptop or a PC. Why choose to limit the capabilities of the Ps4 ?

you can buy a galaxy S2 for around $30, it supports discord and you dont even need a cell plan to use it so if you can afford a PS4 (hell if you can afford a PS4 headset which retails for around $30 for the cheap telemarketer 1 earpiece models) you can afford a phone to run discord with which is far more cost effective from a development standpoint and a hell of a lot better quality than any built-in game voice chat I have ever used. I say this as a person who does play on PS4 as well as PC, if the option were there I would not use a built in voice chat and would rather have the PS4 player just type to us rather than the whole group use what is almost always a horrid/laggy/low quality voice chat system.

Edit 1

Other suggestions:
if you have a Vita or a PSP laying around you can throw skype on that
if you have pretty much any tablet or smartphone ever made you can probably run skype on it
if you dont want to spend $30 on a like new S2 you can find plenty of $5 or less sim slot not working phones and as you dont need the sim slot to discord you are good to go (doesnt need to be pretty just needs to work and run android 4.1 jellybean)
if you are that desperate to use your PS4 to communicate with other players then how about you send suggestions to the creators of apps like discord to create applications to run on the PS4

Edit 2

Also to run discord you can run it off most browsers and is not very resource intensive, I was running it off a tethered cell router in the dominican (max of 7kbps) and a laptop I got for $300 CAD back in 2008 that barely ran the OS which you can probably fish better from the garbage of your local apartment complex these days