Well, I have to agree with the OP. In this day and age of modern gaming voice chat is the best way to communicate. Games like SWG, Lotro, D&D etc. all have in game voice chat now. The option is simple people who like to use it have an option to turn it on. People who hate it have the option to turn it off.

The problem with AoC was the barrens chat that went on in game. The problem with WAR's chat is no one chats period. If mmo games added in game voice chat TS and the rest would likely go out of business. The problem with TS is that you have to have a IP and password which restricts casaul un guilded gamers from joining in.

Did people even use it in WoW? Ventrilo is 100x better than any ingame.

I'd rather stab my own eyes out then burn my ears off then listen to random X player bitch about something.  I don't even bother with Guild Team Speak unless we're doing something big and need to coordinate.  I talk to people that join the public groups / warbands that I open up and people seem more than able to coordinate without a whole lot of talking during PQ's.   For Scenarios thats a whole nothe rproblem since people have the WoW mentality "woo lets get highest DPS bs" instead of concentrating on the objective...or worse the whiners that complain about not knowing what to do in the Scenario when the instructions are right there when you hit the button to join the queue.

The biggest bitchers over community are the people too lazy to try anything.

Sorry guys, LotRO spoiled me, somewhat to my surprise. Lack of built-in voice chat is a game breaker for me. You can avoid most of the problems cited with appropriate filters and by only using it for grouping. You can use vent/teamspeak (I have them both installed and am familiar with both) in a guild-oriented situation. But for casual play (read: pug) there's no substitute for built-in voice chat.

I played DAoC for years as part of a large guild and valued TS but for the type of low-level pvp i'm seeing well it's just a big clusterfuck with no skills, no leadership, no tactics, no strategy. Maybe if I find a reasonably competent and organized guild i'll change my mind. Right now though I find it extremely difficult to break away from what's occupied my attention for the last year and a half, and that's LotRO. With voice chat.

Originally posted by banthis

I'd rather stab my own eyes out then burn my ears off then listen to random X player bitch about something.  I don't even bother with Guild Team Speak unless we're doing something big and need to coordinate.  I talk to people that join the public groups / warbands that I open up and people seem more than able to coordinate without a whole lot of talking during PQ's.   For Scenarios thats a whole nothe rproblem since people have the WoW mentality "woo lets get highest DPS bs" instead of concentrating on the objective...or worse the whiners that complain about not knowing what to do in the Scenario when the instructions are right there when you hit the button to join the queue.

The biggest bitchers over community are the people too lazy to try anything.

QFT

No thanks. I don't want to listen to "that guy" in scenarios. Bad enough I have to read his crap.

Originally posted by ste2000

You fail, problem is because Guild only use Team Speak or similar they cannot be bothered to use the normal chat.

So the problem is the opposit, people should use less Voice chat and use the bloody text chat.
Voice chat is essential when you are raiding and doing sieges, but now people use it even for normal chit chat, and don t feel the need to comunicate with people outside their guild through the old and trusted text chat.

The wide avaiability of voice softwares is ruining the MMORPG immersion and sense of comunity, and WAR is a classic example.

Yes, Go RvR and tell your group incomeing northwest...

Oh wait youre already dead...

In PvP voice chat is key.

Originally posted by lionexx

Yes, Go RvR and tell your group incomeing northwest...

 

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Originally posted by indiramourn

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Originally posted by lionexx

Yes, Go RvR and tell your group incomeing northwest...
 

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^^ A representation of a sudden block of text that you'll see in the chat box in a rvr scenario(estimated time about 3 seconds for that), lived though it in eve sucked hard. Voice is king, and for everyone complaining about "listening to x whine, fart in mic, etc" just learn that every voice program can mute, even inbuilt.
+ again, as I stated before if your not rvr'ing or PVP'ing with your guild or "friends" like you will 95% of the time, your not going to have anyone else on your specific vent/TS or don't you guys want to try and work together with bigger groups?

What you clowns need is Vent. It's a voice program you get when you're not a noob, and you're not guildless. Should try it.

Originally posted by Chill_Factor

What you clowns need is Vent. It's a voice program you get when you're not a noob, and you're not guildless. Should try it.

That's a great plan! Now everyone who plays War give me your vent access so if we end up in the same battle we can talk..............................

Well i used in-game voice for over a year in LOTRO, and never once did we have asses screaming/voice abusing etc...

you people need to drop the preconception that all mmo's are like WOW with tons of idiots on there, because there ain't.

and anyway if anyone gets annoying over comms you MUTE THEM OR KICK THEM.