Voice Chat?

[Ama_Hamada]

Only if the default is having it muted. I am not interested of people hear me speak. Likewise I can have the default to hear other people, but I would only agree to this suggestion if it is easy to mute others who are being annoying over it

[LunaFaye]

We can also talk everything to death instead of playing the game. There's no reason for voice chat (external & internal), only exception would be raid via static and even that is unnecessary but it makes people more comfortable nowadays.

[Lordgrim]

we don't need voice chat, when all the content this game has to offer can be done without hearing someones voice.

If the developers wanted voice chat they would of advertised that as a requirement in order to complete any of the content they created on the product information in order to play the game.

so seeing as its not on the box or online product information that its a requirement to do everything the game has to offer, we don't need it

get your type on

[DaikiKiyoshi]

we don't need voice chat, when all the content this game has to offer can be done without hearing someones voice.

If the developers wanted voice chat they would of advertised that as a requirement in order to complete any of the content they created on the product information in order to play the game.

so seeing as its not on the box or online product information that its a requirement to do everything the game has to offer, we don't need it

get your type on

Well this is just false. QoL additions are not required to be used by players by any means. I'm not sure how you even came up with this but it couldn't be more wrong.

[Lordgrim]

Well this is just false. QoL additions are not required to be used by players by any means. I'm not sure how you even came up with this but it couldn't be more wrong.

show me and the millions of subscribers where it says on the box that the final fantasy 14 development team said " players must have voice chat to complete any of the content we created"

i'll save you the effort , it's not there, believe it or not there is groups of people who clear all content without using voice chat.

P.S they actually type with their keyboards ( oh the horror i have to use my fingers ??!!! when i even typing on the games forum too, how dare square enix not force the player base to use voice chat)

[DaikiKiyoshi]

show me and the millions of subscribers where it says on the box that the final fantasy 14 development team said " players must have voice chat to complete any of the content we created"

i'll save you the effort , it's not there, believe it or not there is groups of people who clear all content without using voice chat.

P.S they actually type with their keyboards ( oh the horror i have to use my fingers ??!!! when i even typing on the games forum too, how dare square enix not force the player base to use voice chat)

No one said players must have voice chat ever??? Still don't know where you are getting this. It was a request for an additional QoL feature. Not a mandatory one.

[Vidu]

No one said players must have voice chat ever??? Still don't know where you are getting this. It was a request for an additional QoL feature. Not a mandatory one.

You see, the problem here is that as soon as there is a voice chat in game, people can and will be all like "Now you have to use it, its the way this game is meant to be played!"
Implementing a voice chat - specially if it would be for example only for duties, as some people here seem to suggest (or even if the voice chat would automatically create chat rooms for each duty) - would be sending the strong message of "You need this to play the game"
And even if no one in your party is pressuring you directly, for a new player this feature could be very "confusing" (lack of a better word right now - what I mean by that is: This might be the first MMO or online game for a lot of people, so they're not used to voice chat etc. and even if they are, they might not be comfortable with it. Having this inbuilt voice chat could easly lead to them being all like "Do... do I have to use it now? Is this what the game expects of me...?")

[Jijifli]

No one said players must have voice chat ever??? Still don't know where you are getting this. It was a request for an additional QoL feature. Not a mandatory one.

If it's poor, it'll be a waste of resources.

If it's good, players WILL make it a requirement. I personally am fine in voice chat most of the time (Even though I run my mouth.) However, someone who is new to the game, or more concerned, will be afraid to. And players will throw fits over it, resulting in it being harder for that player for basically no fault of their own here. Until dungeons require communication, voice chat won't appear in game because it'll feel too pressuring for players to join it.

That's actually why on WoW I learned about the voice chat, because despite how crappy it was, people in Deadmines were so stingy about it, that it was the only way I was ever going to see that content (This was before dungeon finder.)

[Kosmos992k]

Voice chat built into the game would become a defacto feature that players would be expected to use or be kicked. Of course it would also be about as useful as a chocolate teapot, so many people wouldn't use it, and the unrated nature of voice chat would be a turn off to some players, parents and younger players.

Others have mentioned the irrelevant conversion, extra music and loud argumentative chat about other topics being both annoying an distracting, along with the inevitable vocal diatribes that players will issue forth without even pausing for a moment to think better of it.

If groups want to use voice chat there are already many options for them, but because it exists outside the game it's entirely optional and opt-in only.

Last, I would never use voice chat anyway, hearing my voice speaking for my character would be immersion shattering for me. It's not so much that I role play anything when playing - I really don't, it's just that my voice would be 'wrong' and that would be a problem for me at least.

[Magic-Mal]

We do not plan on offering official support for voicechat. 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/