Mummelmann on 11 April 2015
"having a friendly in-game environment was more important than being able to plan and coordinate with teammates using voice chat."
That really says a lot, and this is part of the reason why these IP's will never live up to the biggest franchises in more mainstream genres. There are plenty of reasons for all sorts of censorship and/or protection in games but this is taking it too far; there are several other ways of doing it, some which have already been mentioned in this thread.
