ARR and Voice over IP

[FedeMax]

I know the best way to conquer any endgame content is to be able to talk with your party members so that things can be done right away. Since everyone is already doing it with Mumble or Ventrilo, it will make sense to ARR to include a Voice over IP option.

Just like Call of Duty and other games, been able to communicate with your party members is really important. I want to do a poll for SE to include a Voice over IP option on ARR. When you join a party, you have a buttom in the UI to activated that Voice Chat.

I think it would be a fun way to social with everyone, specially since ARR is going to have a content finder option and meet new people.

DO YOU WANT VOICE OVER IP WITH ARR?
YES / NO?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

It'll be a long time to convince him now... lol but is mostly because of Language Barrier that YoshiP will not add a VoIP ingame. and ask us to use 3rd party instead.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

[Mjollnir]

Yes, but...

[Lady]

A voip that can be used by PS3 players & PC players, yes please.

[ispano]

Yes, but...

As stated in the link, not much more to say on it.

[Nuinn]

It would be helpful, as long as I can mute out someone who's abusing it or being rude (followed by a kick from pt if particularly offensive!). Very used to Ventrilo, but even though it takes a few clicks to set it up & start I still find it to be a minor nuisance ._. Loved logging in, getting into a raid, and having to do pretty much nothing to be able to hear the raid leader issuing orders and responding.

[Kyri]

Im alllllll for this idea! Less stressful then having to navigate someone to skype/teamspeak/vent and walk them through the setup and still not work>< Vent and skype keep making my mic reallllyyyy low too. I know I always feel a little sad when I log onto XI and can't chit chat cause most of my ls are chatting via xbox live and I just cant justify 60$ year to watch my netflix and chat -sometimes-

[Hulan]

From a practicality point of view, VoIP is a service that takes up a fairly large amount of bandwidth. Sure, a lot of games now include VoIP services, but SE isn't going to bother bogging down their own servers with that kind of traffic when there are better/faster services already availible. Not when they have to also contend with the longer transit times to the international servers and the afformentioned language barrier. As for PS3 players, I expect someone could fashion a Ventrilo and/or Mumble bridge as an addon.

Edit: After some research, Mumble is an open source project and would therefore be relatively easy to write a bridge for as an Add-on. Ventrilo, on the other hand, does not distribute any sort of source or API, so much more difficult (though technically still possible, count me out on actually trudging through all of the work required to do it though).

[Pseudopsia]

Personally I think implementing voice chat in game is a waste of time when 3rd party apps do it very well. Voice chat is something Sony should have built into the PS3 OS so game developers don't have to waste time implementing it.

So my answer is NO to in game voice chat.