ARR and Voice over IP

[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).