Microphone Integration

[SweetPete]

Hey guys,

How would you feel if we had microphone use over certain systems in the game. Let’s say dungeons and PvP.

What if they integrated like when you go into a dungeon then you have the option to turn on your mic and talk with your fellow warriors of lights. Also in PvP as well. Now if you don’t turn on your mic then you can’t listen to others either. Think of it like Tera console. If you guys ever played it. I absolutely loved this feature and thought it was a cool implementation.

I know some will hate this and probably never use it but for us chatter social butterflies I think this could be an awesome feature.

What do you guys think?

Also I know it can be toxic as well so you can turn it off at any time of course.

Happy gaming!!!

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Personally, I'd be really cool with it. For dungeons probably overkill, maybe as a social aspect. For PvP I'd love it because I am a shotcaller and it would make it immensely easier for me (though I'd settle for text chat in setup time at least). Such a feature essentially exists in Overwatch, where you are free to join voice chat or not.

On the matters of toxicity as I bet some of you are going to type about it - it doesn't matter what game and what communication method, toxicity will always exist as long as we kneejerk react to each other and misinterpret what the others are saying. This however should not be the sole factor whether or not a voice chat should exist. Furthermore, the existence of a platform someone can be toxic on does not change the fact that being toxic is still against the TOS.

That said, the following issues would be difficult to address:

• language barrier (though not gonna lie, would be a boon to learn a new language like Japanese)
• in case of toxic behaviour, how would they be able to track it compared to chat logs?
• given the technical infrastructure of the game, how qualitative would the voice codec be?

Discord also exists and is fairly dominant as the VOIP-Tool players use (or Teamspeak, for the tech hipsters). I also heard it now finally has Playstation integration, but feel free to correct me on that.

TL;DR: Controversial, but I'd love it if implemented well.

[Brightamethyst]

I think there are three main issues here.

1 - Cross-platform issues.

2 - SE can't moderate it. (yes, they can't moderate Discord either, but that's an outside program, not one of their own in game systems)

3 - And possibly most importantly, many people hate voice chat. I know many people who absolutely refuse to use voice and some would even quit the game if it became a requirement even for casual content.

[ICountFrom0]

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[CidHeiral]

Hell no. 10

[Rongway]

if you don’t turn on your mic then you can’t listen to others either.

This would never fly with the devs. It would allow two people who do have their mics on to talk about someone who doesn't have their mic on without being heard. We can't even send tells in duty because they don't want two people exchanging tells about party members where the whole party can't read them. Integrated voice chat is too costly to moderate. They'll want to keep supported communications down to things that can be saved in a chat log.


If people want to use voice chat they can organize externally with other people who want to use voice chat.