Built in voice chat

[Belial]

As of now, you can't have XIV fullscreen if you need to use voice chat because Alt+Tab doesn't work and all that crap.

Google is your friend, you can fix this. Can't say too much though lest the mods catch wind of my help & delete my post.

[DeadRiser]

Google is your friend, you can fix this. Can't say too much though lest the mods catch wind of my help & delete my post.

I shouldn't have to resort to this crap. Should be fixed. XIV's fault for that...

And honestly, way to stay on topic. Bring some relevant things to this topic, not stuff that I really don't care about.

[Belial]

I shouldn't have to resort to this crap. Should be fixed. XIV's fault for that...

And honestly, way to stay on topic. Bring some relevant things to this topic, not stuff that I really don't care about.

Umm. It's an open forum, I'll post what I please. Guess you're SOL.

[buritoslicer]

Google is your friend, you can fix this. Can't say too much though lest the mods catch wind of my help & delete my post.

Thanks but no thanks, Wouldn't trust a mod for anything. Until we get ad-ons with 2.0 me and Lina will be using the stock experience Square provides.

I shouldn't have to resort to this crap. Should be fixed. XIV's fault for that...

And honestly, way to stay on topic. Bring some relevant things to this topic, not stuff that I really don't care about.

+1 Lina, Square will have to take this into account when they revamp everything. Especially the voice chat part, language barriers shouldn't be a reason to cut it, there are ways to prevent these things. For now we can just sit and wait for SE to eventually get to it (with all respect to the current tasks on hand).

[Jynx]

All things considered I'd rather them not waste the time due to most games even with the best intentions having a terrible array of voice options.

There are dedicated programs that do this far better and mostly for free.

[Wolfie]

All things considered I'd rather them not waste the time due to most games even with the best intentions having a terrible array of voice options.

There are dedicated programs that do this far better and mostly for free.

Care to give me some examples of some flagship multiplayer titles from AAA developers that have come out in the last ~4 years that don't have good VOIP?

And compare those to the amount that DO have good VOIP?

[Jynx]

Care to give me some examples of some flagship multiplayer titles from AAA developers that have come out in the last ~4 years that don't have good VOIP?

And compare those to the amount that DO have good VOIP?

From what I've heard from my Co-worker who wont stop pestering me to play WoW (Never happening) the Voice interface with is terrible and they all use Vent/Skype/Teamspeak to communicate.

So please, show me a game with VOIP that beats the current free services available to anyone?

*edit*

I see your talking about more than just MMO's well then I present the entire god damn Call of Duty series. There is no option to flat out mute everyone without messing around when some idiot who can't stop breathing into his Mic or eating dorritos, or listening to Chocolate rain without just muting my entire TV.

[Wolfie]

From what I've heard from my Co-worker who wont stop pestering me to play WoW (Never happening) the Voice interface with is terrible and they all use Vent/Skype/Teamspeak to communicate.

So please, show me a game with VOIP that beats the current free services available to anyone?

*edit*

I see your talking about more than just MMO's well then I present the entire god damn Call of Duty series. There is no option to flat out mute everyone without messing around when some idiot who can't stop breathing into his Mic or eating dorritos, or listening to Chocolate rain without just muting my entire TV.

I see your Call of Duty and raise you Battlefield series and Valve games. Easy to mute/unmute, crystal clear voice chat, perfect in-game integration.

And if you want an example from a small developer, go check out Heroes of Newerth's VOIP.

I'll also counter your "don't have to listen to stupid idiots" argument by saying that it's applicable to text as well. I have to deal with stupids in text chat as well. I also have to deal with the same stupids in-game, sans any form of communication. I can't stop people from running around in circles, or crowding around and then AFKing on top of important NPCs, or being nuisances. Stop being so oversensitive.

And before you tell me that it's easy to mute people in text chat with a simple system command and it's hard to mute people over VOIP, all of the games I listed above have text commands to both mute VOIP and ignore text coming from an offending person. Heroes of Newerth even has a one-click button next to someone's portrait to mute them, without needing to pull up a special VOIP menu or mute menu.

[Bahn]

The reason why I hate using voice chat is because it's just annoying.

It's annoying to wear a headset. I prefer to play with open air speakers and a desktop microphone, but I understand that's not optimal for voice chat because the mic picks up what the speakers say. I have NEVER found a wired headset I feel comfortable wearing simply because of the funky slack the headset has to take to connect to my PC.

However, for PS3 users, the option to use it should be available. Emphasis on option.

[Wolfie]

The reason why I hate using voice chat is because it's just annoying.

It's annoying to wear a headset. I prefer to play with open air speakers and a desktop microphone, but I understand that's not optimal for voice chat because the mic picks up what the speakers say. I have NEVER found a wired headset I feel comfortable wearing simply because of the funky slack the headset has to take to connect to my PC.

However, for PS3 users, the option to use it should be available. Emphasis on option.

There are tons of people even in games that have built-in VOIP that don't use it. For pickup groups and small scale stuff, it's really not something that's ever required or expected from people (if anything, just listening). End-game groups will require this and probably rely on it, but it's already happening now, so it doesn't really matter.

There are also (expensive) microphones that you can buy that cancel speaker and background noise. If I wasn't living in an apartment, I would be getting a kick ass speaker system and microphone instead of a headset.