In-game voicechat

[bounddreamer]

Adding my perspective from when Destiny launched this feature four or five months after the game's debut due to player demand. During that time, everyone began using PS Party chat outside the game.

When they finally launched in game chat, no one used it because the people who played together were in party chat, and wouldn't leave it to get on voice comm with randos.

And when we did join the chat for pvp with randos, they were idiots and jerks who didn't listen to strategy. So, not much different from not being on chat.

[Derio]

Not happening. Look at Feast

[Seig345]

Seems like general voice chat tendencies across different gaming platforms/games lean towards friends/party only chat because no one wants to listen to some random player's music blaring over mic, trolls, kids yelling/screaming (either in the background or the player behind the character, because some parents...), edgy hardcore elitists who've been just dying for an opportunity to throw their snark over voice instead of just chat, etc.

Seeing as we already have Skype/Discord/TS3/whatever for said friend-only chat, I doubt you'd see much usage of in-game voice on average. Instead you'd probably see an increase in usage of the phrase "Get on voice" and/or the addition of (|Please use voice chat.|) and (|I'm sorry, I can only type.|) to the auto-translate feature. ;p

[NolLacnala]

Their datacenter can't currently handle the playerbase as it is

Let's add VoIP and see how crashy we can get it!

[Pells]

World of Warcraft had a system (recently reinstated, though never used) As soon as people saw how bad and unreliable it was everyone went back to Vent or Skype. Nowadays it's Discord for raid party chat.

Everquest2 also tried to make an in-game voice client. It was also terrible.

I would prefer a voice service from a company that is dedicated to just that. They are pretty much useless if I can't make out the words and have to ask in (text) chat what everyone is saying.

[Canadane]

The last thing I need is 23 strangers yelling at each other. Keep it to text.

[Clethoria]

The last thing I need is 23 strangers yelling at each other. Keep it to text.

Don't forget that 1 person blasting their most annoying, screeching, unintelligible music.

I used Onlive when it was still new and this happened all the time.

[JunseiKei]

That double negative making it so the person always fails their mechanics. \o/

@_@ S'what happens when you write stuff at 7AM.

[Uielyave]

Remember Warcraft's In game Voice Chat? They introduced it, realized it was Garbage and never fixed it. Because it WAS Garbage. Just use the MULTITUDE of other, more reliable voice chat systems out there.