In-game voicechat

[Magic-Mal]

Yoshi specifically stated he didn't want an in-game voice chat because of harassment and also harassment specifically towards female players. VoIP harassment can't be recorded, therefore, you can't report a person and have evidence.

Discord, TeamSpeak, etc, are 3rd party tools and are not Yoshi's responsibility(he can't stop it either way) so it's fair game there.

And I agree 100% with Yoshi. Public voice chat is almost always very annoying.

Here's one answer he gave regarding VC

Voice chat wasn’t enabled in the recent beta. Will it be integrated in the full version of the game?

Naoki Yoshida: We do not plan on offering official support for voice chat. To explain that decision, the idea of talking directly to other players with your own voice and making it a requirement to do so will not necessarily be a good thing for beginners and new players and many will see it as imposing pressure or causing them unnecessary stress.

I am personally a veteran online gamer so I completely understand the importance of voice chat but if we were to make it an officially supported feature then there is a chance that some players would start to demand that others use it just because it is an “official feature”.

Of course, we will not be prohibiting external voice chat via Skype etc, so individual player communities can still sort out their own preferred means of communication!

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013...-realm-reborn/