i'd personally love an opt in voice chat setting
I'm afraid of what family RP's would sound like
then dont go to them.
No. What I meant that the Steam application itself has voice chat. When you're in a Steam chat with someone you can use voice chat. If you're playing with friends you can all go into a group chat.
There's no point in even discussing the possibility. Voice chat will never happen; it's a stuffty idea, we don't need it, and we'd be better off without it.
what would actually be the downside of having an opt in system?
Development time being spent on something which, again, already exists in systems outside of Blockland which work perfectly well and better than anything that could be implemented in-game. This is what I'm trying to emphasize here.
that's true of almost any game
it would be way more convenient to have it in-house and would be a great sale point imo. by all means, work on the critical stuff first, but i dont see it as a stuffty idea just because it already exists externally