Why are people so adverse to talking in discord within FC?

[Listrella]

it's just easier to talk in game rather than go to a seperate application to do it.

[MsQi]

Speaking with full sized headphones on with just hearing your voice in your head can be very disconcerting and even feel claustrophobic to some people.

People with headphones on have a tendency to raise their voice because they can't hear themselves. If someone is aware of this fact they may become self conscious or just not want to bother people around them.

One solution to that is to send some of your voice into the headphones. Not everyone knows how to do this, and some people just hate the sound of their own voice in the headphones. Another is to use lighter weight headphones or even earbuds. That means letting in unwanted outside sound, and maybe those are uncomfortable for them.

There is always a delay and this can result in people talking over each other and this is complicated by the lack of visual cues you get in face to face conversation.

That's just a few reasons.

[Xatsh]

Personally I feel it has to do with the fact discord is so accessible to everyone. Everyone has a discord server with their friends in it, so most people hang out with their clicks of friends instead of global channels. Back in the days of Teamspeak and Discord when it cost money to host a server, the guild servers usually had everyone in them. If it cost $25/month to make a server you would see alot more people in the guild channels.

FFXIV also does not help in that most guilds do not really do much together in terms of content. Other games such as Archeage, WoW, FFXI and so on where guilds did content as a whole instead of broken out into small statics you seen alot more people in general chat channels in my experience. But even guild centric games discord was only full in events then everyone disappeared into private servers.

Discord honestly I feel hurt guild communities in general due to the everyone has their own private server. I prefer the days of Teamspeak and Vent due to it.

[GrumbleBeard]

I don't really like what discord has done to this game and many others. If you're someone who doesn't want to use it, you end up being left out of the "clique" that inevitably forms there.

[TaleraRistain]

Cause I use FC chat instead? You can interact using that just fine rather than having to go to some outside program. Some folks prefer to keep their game and real lives separate and having any sort of requirement or trend of using voice chat in something like Discord leaves them out. I have plenty of folks in the game I only know as their game personas.

[HeyMcFly]

My FC always has things going on via discord banter
But they ask me to join discord whenever there's a conversation going on but I'm incredibly shy & I practice my 'hello's before saying it

[Tommara]

I have been in several FC's that advertise discord but no one seems to just hang out and talk unless there is a specific need like dungeons. This is the first mmo that I have played that people just seem adverse to talking and getting to know one another while playing. Without people to talk with and get to know, I feel like I am just playing solo and the FC is only there for the buffs, but no community.

Because I don't play games to chit chat, and if I'm in a mood to do so, Discord is the most obnoxious place to do it.

Edited Note: It's a sad thing that you consider an FC as people to talk with, rather than play with. It's sad, because in my experience with FF14, you're probably right.

But I've been playing MMO's since Everquest was in beta, when no voice chat even existed, and so know what a good guild is really about.

Voice chat is not required.

[Hycinthus]

I don't really like what discord has done to this game and many others. If you're someone who doesn't want to use it, you end up being left out of the "clique" that inevitably forms there.

Yes. I noticed that too especially in other games, people tend not to reply to questions typed in guild chat anymore. While in discord, they mock the person “this guy always asking in chat, we told him to get a mic”.

The separation is real.

[SturmChurro]

I've played a lot of shooters, or PvP in game, so past clans or guilds I've been in had a mic requirement. Mic is pretty needed in an environment like that. FFXIV is a different beast, however. Fairly casual, low-intensity content. Outside of high-end PvE, or perhaps some PvP it's really unneeded. The purpose of mic chatter in this game would be mostly for the social aspect, and many in this community are pretty anti-social as it is.

[Tommara]

Yes. I noticed that too especially in other games, people tend not to reply to questions typed in guild chat anymore. While in discord, they mock the person “this guy always asking in chat, we told him to get a mic”.

The separation is real.

I agree.

I think the separation is a good thing.

Edited Note: I was an Evercrack addict. I will never allow that to happen again.