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

[AmemeAmeklin]

I prefer text only for in-game communication with strangers.

Reasons why:
1) Salty gamers who troll to cope with their IRL issues would use it to insult others that much faster
2) do we really want to hear other people breathing into their mics/doing private things when we don't know them at all and are just trying to get our dailies done
3) If you are a female gamer, the likelihood of harassment goes way, way up the second a male gamer whom you do not know can identify your IRL gender. I barely tolerate that from FC mates and guys I know (usually I snarl at them, actually), so the idea of strangers pulling that nonsense makes me want to hack their computers, find their locations, travel there, and set them on fire.
4) Related, if you're a female gamer and you're the tank, the likelihood of some male gamer deciding you don't know what you're doing and either trying to lecture you how to play or just ignoring your directions goes way, way up. Yeah, that's a thing.
5) people annoy me in general, I don't want to hear them
6) social anxiety
7) you can't record it if someone is verbally abusing you, making it impossible for GMs to help you if this type of behavior is going on
8) people talking makes it hard for me to concentrate if I can't completely ignore them

[Jellybums]

Can everyone be muted by default? That'd be perfect.

[Fhaerron]

No, third party apps are just better and offer more features.

However, it would be handy for when half the people of the group are on PC and the other half on console.

Lol about Yoshi P saying he's not offering ingame voice chat because it can become a requirement, well guess what, there's groups out there where PC player is requirement just so you all can be on the same voice chat.
No in game voice chat because they don't know how to do it, they don't want to spend the resources and/or 90's server hardware and spaghetti code.

Personally voice chat has always been a requirement for me whether I join a group or make one myself (especially in Destiny), friends or pugs make no difference. Of course I'm not talking about the easy stuff.
So much easier to coordinate and talk while battle when you can't type. Not sure why so many people are against it. Voice chat has always been a huge factor in improvement and leads to higher change of succes when doing harder content in any online game.

[Fhaerron]

I prefer text only for in-game communication with strangers.

Reasons why:
1) Salty gamers who troll to cope with their IRL issues would use it to insult others that much faster
2) do we really want to hear other people breathing into their mics/doing private things when we don't know them at all and are just trying to get our dailies done
3) If you are a female gamer, the likelihood of harassment goes way, way up the second a male gamer whom you do not know can identify your IRL gender. I barely tolerate that from FC mates and guys I know (usually I snarl at them, actually), so the idea of strangers pulling that nonsense makes me want to hack their computers, find their locations, travel there, and set them on fire.
4) Related, if you're a female gamer and you're the tank, the likelihood of some male gamer deciding you don't know what you're doing and either trying to lecture you how to play or just ignoring your directions goes way, way up. Yeah, that's a thing.
5) people annoy me in general, I don't want to hear them
6) social anxiety
7) you can't record it if someone is verbally abusing you, making it impossible for GMs to help you if this type of behavior is going on
8) people talking makes it hard for me to concentrate if I can't completely ignore them

1) ignore list
2) push to talk (it's always been a requirement when we did 40 man raids in wow)
3) again ignore list
4) once again, ignore list
5) You won't join my ultimate group then
6) mute yourself?
7) again ignore
8) You can always explain this to the group, in progress runs chatter should be kept to an absolute minimum and only talk about mechanics during the fight so everybody has 100% focus.

Many headsets have a mice mute button or you can always use push to talk so you have control when your voice is being recorded or just disable your mic in the voice chat software.

I've had some female gamers who had the harassment thing (happend in Destiny sometimes) I always booted the people who did this and add them on the ignore list so they would never get in our runs again. Never has become a real issue.

It doesn't became a problem if you don't let it.

[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.

[Tsukino]

No one wants it for randos, and for your friends and statics there are better options. It has no reason to exist.

[Evogolist]

Thanks for the response everyone. I see and agree with everyone's points and reasons. I actually have social anxiety myself and tend to be the quiet one if and whenever I do choose to mic up. Heck, even in text chat I tend to be quiet unless it's close friends. I think my OP came out of curiosity, plus I would tend to have some flickering issues with my client whenever I had discord up.

[Fredco191]

I wouldn’t. I’m a wuss.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Thanks for the response everyone. I see and agree with everyone's points and reasons. I actually have social anxiety myself and tend to be the quiet one if and whenever I do choose to mic up. Heck, even in text chat I tend to be quiet unless it's close friends. I think my OP came out of curiosity, plus I would tend to have some flickering issues with my client whenever I had discord up.

Turn off the discord overlay.

[AmemeAmeklin]

5) You won't join my ultimate group then

oh no my life is destroyed