Ventrilo: Did it progress or destroy the MMORPG experience?

[mwatt]

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

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. This was my favorite:



"It's bad, but I can't tell you why. Also absolutes are bad."

There are a few times when voice is EASIER than text - no question about that. The most common are probably running while typing, complicated grouping scenarios and many raiding scenarios.

However, just because something is easier, doesn't make it more fun. For me, it greatly damages my immersion. Granted, if I'm fighting an Orc, I know I'm not REALLY fighting an orc. Yet, there is something to experiencing 3D graphics instead of text, nice animation, moody surroundings. It makes the game more fun for me if the play is thematic. Talking to the real people by voice that are behind the character images messes this up for me. Plus some of the people I have had to group with over the years... I definitely DON'T want to know anything more about them than I have to.

I will grant you that in raid scenarios, it's obviously more effective to speak rather than write, and that can make the difference between winning and loosing. I'm not much for raiding anyway - and voice is one reason why - but to me, it's kind of like cheating to have to use voice. Mind you, I said for ME. I'm not telling anyone else how to play.