Ventrilo: Did it progress or destroy the MMORPG experience?

[Snaggles]

Originally Posted by Mardur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyone who thinks it's bad are just nostalgia LARP nerds. These are probably the same guys who are in that Youtube thunder bolt video.

There are plenty of reasons why it's bad that has nothing to do LARP'ing. Absolutes seldom hold weight in life [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For timing and coordination I can see it, especially PvP. Not everyone who is against is a old nostalgic jerk or has a superiority complex.

[Galacticus]

It depends on the game really.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by Mardur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you don't like voice communication, talking on the phone, etc, have fun not being successful in life.

[Snaggles]

Originally Posted by Galacticus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It depends on the game really.

Best answer yet. Shoulda been in the damn poll. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Palemoon]

I only ever used vent during my Shadowbane years. I would never want to use it for a slower paced online RPG.

And for a slow as snails game like EQ? vent is totally unnessesary.

[mwatt]

It didn't ruin the game because I just refuse to use it. It breaks the immersion, horribly.
Learn to type everyone.

[Galacticus]

I am an old school gamer. People ask me how I type so fast and in reality it was because I was forced to get good at typing to play games effectively.


There isn't a better way to teach someone to type then having them type to their friends about some funny shit or something important.

There are a lot of games that wouldn't be able to function the way they do without voice communication because there is just no time to type, and the people who make the game know you will have voice so they don't bother to put that time in.

For MMOs I like typing the most. You never forget what someone says because you can just scroll up, on voice you might not really understand them because of an accent or the distance between their mouth and mic. Its also better for conflict. There are always those people who say "No I didn't say that, or No he told me this and this and this". If it's typed its all there and you cant dispute it.

[toddfx]

I can understand it being used in a high stress situations where lots of people are communicating together without time to type, but for casual play it seems like a pretty poor choice. The issue I see with voice chat being used is that for one thing, there is no log of what was said. If you miss what somebody says, you have no choice but to ask them to repeat themselves. With lots of chaos going on and lots of people doing/saying multiple things, it seems like there is a lot of room for error. It might be true that voice chat is FASTER but is it as bullet-proof as the written word? I think not.

Originally Posted by Mardur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you don't like voice communication, talking on the phone, etc, have fun not being successful in life.

This comment is pretty ignorant, unnecessary, and also borderline offensive. If you haven't noticed, the world is actually becoming MORE text based every day.

Besides that, your statement makes me wonder what your idea of "successful" is. Success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, which many people would also describe as happiness. If you are saying one cannot be happy without using a telephone, I am sorry to hear that is what you think about life and humanity.

Just sayin.

[Kika Maslyaka]

while I enjoyed casual conversation in groups using keyboard, I definitely believe that ventrillo is a tremendous assets to raids.
How many times raid leader noticing that something went wrong and raid on a verge of a wipe out, just doesn't have the time to type out instructions for everyone - Ventrillo to the rescue! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kevlar]

Well its cool for outing the manginas.