I've been finding myself increasingly frustrated with anything involving voice chat for games.
On one hand it's an invaluable tool for working together with your team, great chats between players etc.. When I am in a good group, room, whatever, I always think this is great, I love Voip and can't live without it.
On the other hand, it's pure, unadulterated stupidity. I have been reduced to a distracted bystander, not an active participant in whatever is going on in the gameworld, match, multiplayer confilct..whatever. Kind of going through the motions and trying to pay attention to what's going on around me in time to the interweb's greatest hits of "how wasted I am" , "you are gay" , "blatant racisim".....and many many more! (act now and you can also get the classics of "children singing in your ear" and "STFU infinity loop remix").
I know a lot of guilds/clans/outfits/corporations require this feature from their members. I was lucky enough awhile back to get into a L2 clan that wanted it, but didn't force me to use it. I usually do my best to pay attention to what's going on to make sure whomever is healed, assisted, repaired etc.
The minute anyone asks me if I have a mic, I cringe and shudder in terror. While I understand the request, I just don't want to use it. To me it just removes that escapist filter, and supplants me back into reality.
Reality, just the place I want to be in when I log into my virtual fantasy world.
I never had this problem when using voice chat in DDO, I think this was more because the community was already fairly mature, I also use Xfire for ingame chat and again have never had this problem, this does worry me now becuase i just installed Teamspeak, for WW2Online, I really hope it's not going to turn out like you say, if it does i will just delete it. thanks for the heads up enzyme.
Fri Mar 07 2008 9:47PM ReportYeah I play Neverwinter Nights and we are also blessed with a mature player base. We use mostly Skype or X-Fire and maybe ventrilo.
Hardcore roleplayers tend to shy away from using voice chats as they say it breaks their roleplay immersion...and they are probably right. We are not forcing anyone to use it also but we recomend it. Especially for new players also, if I am going to explain how the game works it is really a big plus.
Doing all that typing really sucks and the voice chat is a much faster way to communicate in combat...almost like you would imagine real persons to communicate in a combat situation...so from that point of view it is very good...
Tue Jun 08 2010 3:54AM Reporthence why it is a blessing AND a curse. It really is player base, and group dependent. I use ventrillo and don't have an issue. I do have an issue when I am knee deep in something and someone pops into my vent lobby and starts howling in my ear or being an ass.
I have a habit of muting everyone I do not know in vent everytime I log in, that has been keeping gaming sessions hassle free.
Wed Jul 07 2010 8:31AM ReportMMORPG.com writes:
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