Ventrilo: Did it progress or destroy the MMORPG experience?

[Trelaboon]

I never liked Vent, not even a little bit. To me, the excitement of this game, was entering a world, full of people, who's biggest problem was finding research components. You never knew who you were talking to, everyone was always on the same playing field, it's an escape from reality, and vent gets rid of that. Even today I never use vent, if my guilds require it, i'll leave.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I think the poll doesn't have enough options.. I hate it at times.. i like it at other times..

just depends on what I'm doing.

[Motec]

We had no problem without vent all the way through pop. I dont see a need for it.

That said, its better than writing 20,000 words every time you log on. My old EQ keyboards would wear out in a few months.

[Mcbard]

I can only think of one plus side for ventrilo: it speeds up communication between players.

There are a few downsides I can think of with it. I'm not sure if "immersion" is the term to describe how I feel when I used it, but it definitely ruins some aspect of the game. It takes you out of it for most of your communication. It solidifies the idea that the troll sk on your monitor is in fact a 20 year old dude in California. I'm not into roleplay or any of that stuff, but there is a difference between that being confirmed in your head and not. It's subconscious I think.

It also seems like some people are just too slow to handle communicating in both places at once. Frequently during raids people will completely tune out in game chat for 5-10 minutes at a time it seems. I personally don't have an issue with reading chat and listening at the same time, but a lot of people just expect to hear anything that is important over vent/ts and everything said in chat isn't relevant, which is COMPLETELY false and makes you a worse player for not absorbing all of the information presented to you imo.

So, did it destroy the MMORPG experience? No that would be a stupid thing to say. Did it alter it? Of course. For better or for worse? Both.

[HawkMasterson1999]

They felt it necessary to remove target rings and spell sets but they allow and actually encourage the use of a 3rd party program that many people say gives a decided advantage to gameplay? It should be a bannable offense.

[Fultun]

Funny someone claimed that "Text communication is kind of cold and archaic."

Yet I don't see the younger generation calling each other as much as I see them texting each other. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never liked Voice in MMoRPG. I beleive it has it's use in raids. It's way easier to give instructions to large amount of people and groups via voice than typing and hoping the person necessary gets it. but even then, the channel should only be used by leaders, and others should only be listening.

For daily play it just annoyed me because 99% of the chat had nothing to do with the game. And like others said, trying to associate the voice with the character was mind numbing at times.

In 10-12 years of playing MMoRPGs, I dont think I ever had that much of a problem playing and typing at the same time. Sure there were times I didn't get "MOVE...CYCLOPS" in the chat window quick enough, but even then the 3 seconds it took didn't make much of a difference in the outcome. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hell, I don't even play with my speakers on most nights.

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by HawkMasterson1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They felt it necessary to remove target rings and spell sets but they allow and actually encourage the use of a 3rd party program that many people say gives a decided advantage to gameplay? It should be a bannable offense.

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

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[Messianic]

Originally Posted by HawkMasterson1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They felt it necessary to remove target rings and spell sets but they allow and actually encourage the use of a 3rd party program that many people say gives a decided advantage to gameplay? It should be a bannable offense.

Vent is a third party program that has nothing to do with EQ itself - it's not part of the client. Your analogy is really stupid.

I'm sure the GM's will apologize for not being able to annihilate new technology to help emulate the classic experience for you.

[Fultun]

On a sidenote, if the Voice chat was anything like I see in OOC in some zones, I really don't care to listen.

Sometimes I swear the zones are filled with 13 year olds. It's amazing the conversations and content of the arguments I see in chat.

[Messianic]

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

On a sidenote, if the Voice chat was anything like I see in OOC in some zones, I really don't care to listen.

Sometimes I swear the zones are filled with 13 year olds. It's amazing the conversations and content of the arguments I see in chat.

This. I'm also incredibly surprised at how lazy or non-resourceful so many of the players are.

"omg how do I get 2 kelethin i'm in the middle of a forest"
Me: "Google EQAtlas"


I'm actually doing them a favor, but they sometimes take it as a huge insult.

Oh, and edit to defend Mardur/Reiker from some jackass:

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

I'm just some opinionated idiot because I call someone an idiot who's actually one of the most knowledgeable people on the forums.