In-Game Voice chat

[KaplanHomahru]

Aside from the additional development costs and language barrier, there were more concerns with in game voice chat. Harassment (female gamers in particular), but also what about people who don't want to use it? Officially supporting it would give rise to more severe alienation for people who just don't want to use VOIP than not supporting it would for PS3 players. If they supported it, people could argue that it's a "must" for raids and what not because voice chat is "official". By not supporting it, SE is effectively saying "You don't need voice chat to do everything in this game well. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise".

EDIT: Here is the Yoshi response. Its a lot more complicated than the language bit:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post544090