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Voice in MMORPGs by Senor Barborito 08/09/2003, 7:27am PDT Richard Bartle makes an extended version of the argument I present against the voice design point in MMORPGs in my currently unposted piece on 8 critical design points in MMORPGs here. His reasons and conclusions mirror my own - speech to text and text to speech (hopefully with an 'emotional markup language' in the future) are infinitely preferrable to voice chat in MMORPGs, save I would change his 'not yet you fools!' to 'never ever ever you fools!' Apologies for reposting a slashdot link, but the point is worth discussing. --SB

Voice in MMORPGs by Senor Barborito 08/09/2003, 7:27am PDT     Re: Voice in MMORPGs by foogla 08/09/2003, 8:37am PDT     Re: Voice in MMORPGs by Roop Dirump 08/09/2003, 11:12am PDT         Re: Voice in MMORPGs by Senor Barborito 08/09/2003, 12:09pm PDT             Re: Voice in MMORPGs by Roop Dirump 08/09/2003, 11:22pm PDT     I'm imagining super buff barbarians snarling with weak nasal voices. Krom! NT by Mischief Maker 08/09/2003, 3:10pm PDT         That would be the other reason I think it's a bad idea *shudder* NT by Senor Barborito 08/09/2003, 5:12pm PDT         Thus, the niche market for audio enhancing hardware opens up. by Bill Dungsroman 08/11/2003, 2:13pm PDT     You're still going to introduce voice-based forums though, right? NT by whydirt 08/09/2003, 5:50pm PDT         Yes, In 21xx -nt- by Entropy Stew 08/09/2003, 6:15pm PDT