The reason I'm posting about this in this thread in particular is because most people assume that folks will have and be using their external voice program of choice to communicate - discord, etc. - but that's not really a function option for some. As a player who cannot speak vocally, I rely on the existence of in-game text-based interfaces to communicate with my friends and companions while we play games together. As far as I've been able to tell, BG3 does not support this at present time - just as their previous titles have not. I'd be interested to know if there are plans to improve this situation.
BINGO. We need to advocate for this feature TO BE INCLUDED BEFORE LAUNCH.
@The Red Queen -- This is where we'd need your help. You have a link to the upper ups. This is D&D. Inter game communication by TEXT is an absolute must. Don't worry about voice, but text is very very important. Many in this style of gaming need it. In DDO there is built in voice and built in text chat. Text chat is used 4 to 1 over voice. Its often the FIRST WAY we get to meet guildies.
No inter-game text chat will sadly place this game in the circular file in a FRACTION OF THE TIME by gamers... I PROMISE developers that. Add global text chat and player-to-player (private) text chat features.
@Larian Developers:
I rely on the existence of in-game text-based interfaces to communicate with my friends and companions while we play games together.
Remember those words Larian, discuss it at your meetings... because many, many thousands of BG3 gamers will REQUIRE this feature for basic necessity communication and it will simply be a game-breaker to not have it.
