Guild Wars 2

Just a random thought I’m throwing out there, but maybe a voice chat? Especially for WvW, because some people don’t have teamspeak, ventrilo, or other programs of that sort. Most commanders that lead the zergs always say, “Everyone get on teamspeak!” “You won’t know what’s going on if you aren’t on ts!” etc. This would greatly impove the game imo so it’s easier to communicate. And, because of so many people in Lion’s Arch, maybe make the chat party/squad wide so it’s not spammed with people talking all at once.
Again, just a thought, so post whatever regarding this, and maybe this will get incorporated in the game, maybe not.

I’d really like a voice-chat for WvW.
Being able to choose between of this 3 options:

-getting in a chatroom with the commander and the other players with him. (right clicking on the commander tag – join voice-chat)

-a voice-chat for parties (also outside of WvW)

-an open-area voice-chat. You can speak with every friendly player in your radius of sight (the radius in which players are also marked as green dots on your map)

Shirk.6421:

I’d really like a voice-chat for WvW.
Being able to choose between of this 3 options:

-getting in a chatroom with the commander and the other players with him. (right clicking on the commander tag – join voice-chat)

-a voice-chat for parties (also outside of WvW)

-an open-area voice-chat. You can speak with every friendly player in your radius of sight (the radius in which players are also marked as green dots on your map)

Yeah, i agree 100% with that^ hopefully they will add this soon

While it would be nice it will most likely not be able to be as good as a out of game client anyway. At least not without it costing them way too much money.

Most games I have played that have built-in voice-coms people usually use other clients such as Teamspeak or Mumble anyway, simply due to the fact that the ingame voice is usually quite bad.

Most servers (if not all) already have public team-speak or mumble-channels that can be used for free when needed.

One problem Anet might have with having their own voice chat comes with dealing with people that violate the ToS with verbal abuse. With in game text chat they can keep logs and punish those that are abusive. If they offered live voice chat there would be no real way for them to monitor this and could cause problems due to that. With 3rd party voice chat systems being used they are free from any liability that might come up from any type of abuse or threats that are transmitted via those 3rd party services.