Is voice chat necessary?Follow

I play next to my spouse who works nights, and who is usually asleep during the times that I play. I can't do voice chat because that would wake her up. However, any time I queue up for a dungeon with DF, I am being increasingly pressured by people to use a VoIP chat program.

The highest dungeon I have finished is Brayflox. I have noticed that dungeon difficulty is ramping up. My question is, is it possible to do late and endgame content without voice chat?

I can do better without some jackass yelling at me the entire time what to do. So no, I won't do voice chat.

Arthur

I didn't use voice chat until I started attempting Titan Hard Mode with my FC. Passed all the other lvl 50 content (Ifrit/Garuda HM included) without it. It's mostly about everyone knowing the fight and knowing what role they have to play.

Yep. I'm up to Titan Hm without vocie chat. The key is finding a group of like-minded folks, and learning by trial, error, and youtube. You can accomplish calls with sound effects attached to macroed chat functions (needed for ifrit and Dhome Chimera when everyone needs to run in, for example).

Edited, Sep 20th 2013 11:08am by Valkayree

Edited, Sep 20th 2013 11:08am by Valkayree

My FC uses Mumble (we also have guilds in most MMO's, so it is almsot neccesary just to keep up with people when we are all in different games)... but unless its Guild Wars 2 guild missions, we mainly use VoIP to ******** and talk about fabrics and or whatever.

I'm in the same boat as Soloman, and I use a controller to play as well, and KB only for typing, or to hit the button to talk on Mumble.

Its just so much easier to make calls on the fly during a dungeon...most good FC's will require it as its not only easier to coordinate but more fun actually knowing the people you play with.

Jealous of the guy whos FC uses mumble...the community of FFXIV seems stuck in the past and all use ventrillo...not only that they are strangely extremely defensive over suggesting another voice chat that is far superior in quality.

I really dislike how I have to mute my game, deal with every single persons volume, deal with people who sound like they are talking through a drive thru order speaker...and the obvious latency between chat and hearing it.

Whenever I suggest TS3 or mumble is better the point of voice quality flies right over their head and they think its about gimmicky toys and addons or something....

And that's IF people actually use voice chat...lots of PS3 players who cant/refuse to use it...on top of refusing to watch boss fights on youtube...makes things a lot more difficult for everyone imo.

There are smart phone apps for voice chat, and they work really well too....

Game needs its own voice chat imo....

Actually Yoshida mentioned that there will not be any in-game voice chat. Because then it would become mandatory and many people really dislike having to use voice communication to play a game.

EDIT: I'm a jerk.

Edited, Sep 20th 2013 1:02pm by PhoenixOmbre

Considering they can cope with my husband's really strong Geordie accent and my not as strong one - you'd be ok!

Hardly needed.

Sure, it's not like XI where you can type and not really hinder your timing of weaponskills and abilities. But if everyone simply stops before the boss for a second to run through the strategy, then nothing even remotely like that is needed. People are smart enough to see adds spawn, and even then, a quick "pop" in chat is enough to get them to notice if they did not do so already.

It's an international game. People arent going to make out what others say anyhow with all the diffirent accents and voices. Besides, i really dont need the swearing cuss-storm of some of the twelve year olds playing this game like it's Call of Duty or something just because you're not exactly in the place they want you to stand.

Except that it isn't, requires more work to setup properly, and in the end still sounds worse.

I heard someone saying that they didn't want to spend the resources on implementing an in-game voice chat feature. Which is fine, they did their research and calculated their profit margins, etc, so enough people must be ambilivent about it.

I, for one, would LOVE an in-game voice chat for link-shells and parties that you could choose to automatically participate in or not. I play with RL friends a lot and I'd really like to be able to chat with my 3 friends while we are doing a dungeon, as typing is difficult while holding a PS3 controller and tanking : D

Vent/TS/mumble/skype is fine for those that play the PC version, but I can't run Ventrillo in the background on my PS3, I'd have to bring my lap top out to my living room (which I have done) to use those services. Not to mention I'd love to be able to bark orders in a difficult encounter when I see something going wrong - I love FFXIV because it feels very in-the-moment to me, and having to type things takes me out of that.

/shrug - I hope they get everything else fixed quickly so they can move on to the marginal improvements like in-game voice chat. Even Everquest 1 has in-game voice chat...c'mon!

Shoot don't have to understand, I could listen to the Scottish accent all day haha.