In Game Voice Chat, Why doesn't this game have it and would you use if it did?

[Evogolist]

As the title says, I'm curious as to why, with this game's style of play and combat, does it not have an in game voice chat feature? Sure, you could search the internet for any number of 3rd party voice chat apps/programs, but why should we have to go outside the game just to get something that should've been there to begin with.

Would any of you guys use the in game voice chat over Discord and whatever else is out there?

[KaivaC]

Personally, I wouldn't because discord is just convenient to use for me. My static often discusses strats, so it's nice to be able to just have one application to talk to them about while we're all looking at it, and then being able to check in on fc events that are coming up while on voice chat. But that's just me personally, coming from someone who really hasn't had a super bad experience with discord.

[Arrius]

It's a waste of development time when there are more than enough suitable alternatives out there you can use for voice chat.

[Aerlana]

Personally, I wouldn't because discord is just convenient to use for me.

I use this as quote because it is exactly my think :

Discord is free, easy to use, you can set even vocal and written chat. Also usefull to speak to anyone not already log in (like, asking all your static anything without waiting the evening, etc)
And finally you can have link to strategies or usefull informations even for your PU.

The FF vocal chat would be limited to PU with less convenience. Also, with all servers matters we had those last 5 years, i am not sure adding anything on it is a great idea.

WoW finally have a "good" vocal chat (was one before but... meh) and dont use it a lot because discord is enough.

[Rhus]

Probably for the same reason there is no in game p*****.
When you read some comments players get in text chat I can kinda understand why they don't throw you into a party and allow VC.

[Nixxe]

I'm not sure how Blizzard's new integrated B.net chat is going, but when they originally introduced voice chat to WoW back in like 2007, people pretty much just didn't use it ever, despite the fact that back then the popular choices were all paid. Now that Discord is being a thing, what benefit is it to me for them to develop an integrated chat function, especially because it just creates pressure to join voice chat with obnoxious randoms? Discord is free, sufficiently high quality, and practically ubiquitous already.

[Selova]

I'm not sure how Blizzard's new integrated B.net chat is going, but when they originally introduced voice chat to WoW back in like 2007, people pretty much just didn't use it ever, despite the fact that back then the popular choices were all paid. Now that Discord is being a thing, what benefit is it to me for them to develop an integrated chat function, especially because it just creates pressure to join voice chat with obnoxious randoms? Discord is free, sufficiently high quality, and practically ubiquitous already.

Blizzards in game VOIP is still as terrible as it's always been and no one uses it, even their new guild tab interface looks exactly like the discord interface so you can at tell what they are trying to do with it. No matter how they try to implement it, like many other games 3rd party VOIP's will always be superior.

[HyoMinPark]

Would any of you guys use the in game voice chat over Discord and whatever else is out there?

For me, it’s doubtful. Discord offers too many extra things for me to use an in-game chat as an alternative. But I only talk in Discord with people who are my friends; I won’t join random Discords usually because too shy.

[valho]

I have only played another game that have ingame voice chat and the quality is poor compare to Discord, so I don't think Dev should waste time developing an ingame voice chat unless it's better than the free option outside. Most players won't use it anyway, even when doing savage content in PF/RF, all we need is a macro on the strats and things gets done.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Social anxieties aside, I can live without another round of some random kid throwing racial slurs he doesn't actually understand while insulting my parentage.