voice chat between pc and ps3???

[Slade]

Actually if I remember correctly, they only wanted addons like UI customization, not DBM and such. Again, iirc.

You may be right. I recall there being a thread about it here on the lodestone but i dont know if there was a dev response. Ill take a look and see if i can find it.

[Dzian]

A somewhat different view. I use mumble and find it invaluable for xiv. I think a few reasons why shells currently require it are that currently everything rotates around speed runs. stopping for 10-15 seconds to type here and there ends up being detrimental to that ever impending clock.

Another point is that while you're typing you can't do much. If you're half way through typing you can't then press 1 2 3 to use your actions or even use a gamepad cos as soon as you press something what your typing is lost or you're 1 2 3 ends up in the chat window and not executing the action its should be.

where voice chat really shines it is doesn't affect your ability to do your jobs while you communicate. in some cases i've seen people run into av and completely balls up because the group runs a slightly different strategy to the one they could do blindfolded. what voice clients do is let people communicate without having to stop. and in many cases thats invaluable at present. be it speed runs, stray adds, things to dodge (eruptions etc) so i kinda thing speed runs are a big chunk of why voip is prefferred by alot of people.

also as someone else mentioned earlier xi was much slower for pretty much all jobs. i could ws on my sam and write a book in party chat while i built tp. and if xiv is going to make combat even faster then it seems there's even likely even less room to type. what i would hope is that typing doesn't interfere with battle. for example if i'm typing "/p ok after this mo.." i can still move around hit hit skills and combos and then carry on "..b change to x job..."

[moriandrio]

voice chat gives you a huge advantage during boss fights, specially if something doesnt works like it should and you need to improvise. If you have to type it, in most cases it will be too late.

And i aggree FFXI was much slower, i could tank HNM and chat with several friends and check some websites on 2nd screen. Yoshi stated in ARR everything will get faster so typing during fights will be even harder.

[Zenaku]

Portal 2 allows PS3 <-> PC voice chat.

yes but that portal talking about SE putting the time and money to work with sony to find a way for it to work in FFXIV. I'm sure it can be done but are they going to waste time and money for people who may not even use it at the end due to people using 3 party tools.