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

[reiichi]

There are so many 3rd party services that can and will do it better than anything SE could implement. Especially given that the ongoing DDoS on each of the datacenters would ALSO impact voice communication. Given that there are enough bandwidth issues for just gamedata packets, I would never want to add additional bloat going to/from SE's datacenters for voice when something like Discord works so much better. And for those who don't like Discord's approach, there's always Ventrillo, TeamSpeak, or Mumble servers people can run on their own. Or things like Google Hangouts, Skype, or FB Messenger if all the players know each other.

From what I heard about the built-in voicechat in WoW, it's garbage and rarely used. Perhaps that's changed since its release, but with the added benefits of literally any other service, there's no reason to expend development costs to force a half-working solution into FFXIV when Yoshi-P has already stated he doesn't think it should ever be required.

See also:
Literally this topic, but older.
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013...-realm-reborn/

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!

[Fredco191]

I wouldn’t. I’m a wuss.

[Kuzulo]

No, voice chat is the worst.

I hated it way back, when it first started with teamspeak/ventrilo.

I don't want to hear mouth-breathing people, who seem to be in really poor physical condition, laboriously speaking to me while they listen to music and their kids make noise in the background.

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Isn't a third party one an avenue to "swatting"/whatever that is? I've heard of this, will someone will not like you and call the police/whomever. In third party ones they can see your IP address, correct?

If I'm just playing with people, in FFXIV or Wow, people can't see my IP address.

[Dirwen]

I don't even use discord which most people seem to. Therefore, in game voice chat is a no go for me if implemented. Surprised so many people replied with having social anxiety as I also suffer from it.

[Rosa_Frandlia]

I remember playing ESO. It was annoying when people had music playing in the background and broke the feeling of the game. I don't want to go into Limsa and hear rap, country, metal, rock, etc... instead of either the music I'm listening to or the ingame music.

Even if it is a necro, I've seen this in Novice Network as a question recently from new players.

[TimeraiderGaranyi]

Only if it is OFF by default and there is an option to turn it on/off.
I for one would NEVER turn it on in a game like this.. it will be 50% normal, 50% utter garbage :P

Just stick with Discord etc. i would say

[TroySoFab]

Sounds like a waste of resources to me. I'd rather them use those resources for more in game content. And with all the ERP going around lately I'd want to vet people just a little more before randomly going into voice chat with them.