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Originally Posted by Mardur
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I'm probably within the top 1% of fastest typers in the P99 community and I absolutely cannot text-communicate and play the game effectively. It's impossible. Once you begin typing, you lose your ability to do anything useful besides like, auto run.
By the way, everyone who in one way or another told me I was wrong, never gave any evidence supporting how I'm wrong. Blanket statements just make you look dumb.
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I take it that your first experiences on these games involved using vent. Really it's just what falls into people's comfort levels.
A lot of people play this game for the role playing aspect, even if they don't specifically role play their character. You don't really want to hear some 50 year old's deep voice when they're playing a female wood elf character, even if you already know it's a dude. And you don't want to hear someone talk about their personal issues during the massive downtimes of EQ play.
And I don't know what class you play, but if you type as fast as you say you do, I don't see how you could have any issues with communicating via typing in this game.
Certain moments may get a little overloaded/stressful, but you adapt. And you can adapt without having to make yourself realize you're not really IN the game. That's the biggest reason why people were addicted to this game. You were your character. These days there are people that are their entire guild.
And all this I hear about how vent makes raiding easier... I go back and read all the comments on raiding and it doesn't make sense to me. There's information out there where everyone should know pretty much exactly what they're supposed to do in raids, even if they had never played this game before. Then take into consideration the long length of time between classic and kunark for people to get overly geared. Yet they still struggle on so many aspects of the raid scene.
Back on live for classic/kunark, people didn't know crap. It would take an hour to get 20 people to zone in one at a time and get to a certain spot on the wall in fear. You wait in the verant chat room for everyone to get there, then everyone logs back in. That's how we broke fear originally. I heard stories here that it takes 5 hours with 50+ people to break it. I don't care what guild it is... that's insane.
By what I can judge on the year and a half I played originally versus the 4 months here, and the raid scenes I've played on both.... people were far better 12 years ago, and that was without voice chat. So personally I don't see how it helps your groups in this specific game. It just takes away from the feel of the game.