Ventrilo: Did it progress or destroy the MMORPG experience?

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

By the way, I'm not sure what all the personal attacks are about when I did nothing but give my opinion on the original post.

Lol, personal attacks? You said everyone who hates voice chat is someone who dresses up and runs through a forest with a foam sword. Later mentioning we are nerd haters. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I will agree with you (finally): We all have our preferences. It's part of having those innate human rights. Personally I don't like voice chat and find it shocking that I'm not in the minority.

Fact is I'm not a piece of shit human being for not wanting to talk to someone over a mic while looking at a rudimentary 3D model. It's just strange to me, especially when we refer to the player as their real name on Vent. I spent half the time trying to figure out which damn voice goes to which toon. Yes, everyone has automatic biases and often we don't even know they exist; that doesn't make us bigots, it just makes us complicated humans.

I want to know people as their toon and how they play because I don't care about anything else. Sure I talk about personal and casual stuff but I don't need to hear their voice or meet them in person. Frankly I meet a ton of people in 'real life' so sometimes cranking the music and getting drunk on a raid was pretty fun. You can still get to know people by typing, you're just judging the CONTENT without any biases.

Yea I've had good vent conversations. No it's not necessary for a slow-paced MMORPG because the last damn 3 letters stand for "Role Playing Game". I'm not changing my voice while playing a different race or living out some strange fantasy world where players are not just normal people. Pretty sure you guys are all just kicking back on a video game after a long day of school, work, or the mundane chores of life.

As an aside, it's very obvious that many of us are quite stubborn. I sure am! I certainly had no intention of offending, judging, or hating anyone with different preferences. Apologies if anyone felt attacked as the poll was just for fun. My own experiences were great without Ventrilo and poor with it, if the group of people on the other side of my headset were different maybe I would be in the other camp.