SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat - Kotaku Comments

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

ChimDeathmonkey — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:15:48 MDT

@Irenicus-the one and only: I forgot about how great MC Chris's "Fett's Vette" was!

ChimDeathmonkey

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

DamienMagi — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:47:43 MST

This would be nice... if I played any of those MMOs...

DamienMagi

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:43:59 MST

@dhunter: Nobody and nothing can compete against WoW. Microsoft keeps dropping out because their investors don't understand this.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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kyosen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:08:29 MST

@dhunter: An MMO doesn't have to compete with WoW to be successful and have a large player base.. Eq2 and LOTRO proved this.

kyosen

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DanimalJenkins — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:51:49 MST

@K-Squad! (Badass Edition): Damn right! Everytime I hear MMO thrown in with FPS I ask "Is it Planetside 2? If not, I don't care." Someday they'll hear us.

DanimalJenkins

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dhunter — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:59:35 MST

Now the challenge for SOE is to make a MMO that could compete against WoW. If they can, I'm sold!

dhunter

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Allen750 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:55:29 MST

Nice.

Allen750

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

okenny :) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:06:47 MST

@aka Bitter: Not to be a troll but I'd like to point out that the 360 already does all those things listed with the exception of voice masking (which they dropped support for citing deceptive use) and phone in voice chats. You can do voice with teammates only but it's game dependent like in halo 3... the developer has to enable it to work that way if that's what they want; friends list voice chat is also supported. 360 reserves the 3% processor overhead to handle things like this and network traffic so it doesn't impact your games performance ever.

This service call in feature is really awesome and it would be nice to see the 360 adopt that kind of support since the infrastructure is already there.

okenny :)

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okenny :) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:05:34 MST

@Lancehead: Isn't the Agency a PS3 exclusive? :\

okenny :)

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

limitt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:19:25 MST

hopefully it stays free

limitt

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kyosen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:33:06 MST

Well, I guess that blows. Ventrillo worked fine as it gave people who needed it a way to have it, but now it'll be mandatory for normal grouping which screws anyone over who can't or not want to use it.

kyosen

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Edge of Blade — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:45:36 MST

Hey, the Agency is one of the games on PS3 that actually has me interested.

@Huxle: How do you figure? MGO = not an MMO.

Edge of Blade

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Huxle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:47 MST

Sweet, awesome voice chat for MGO :D

Huxle

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:09:44 MST

@tei: There are several others from SWG that were awsome, some dancing ones better then this, but I can't find them now :( And many serious ones.

Heres some others though

That will have to due :P

Irenicus-the one and only

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CalcioFool — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:46 MST

People will still use Vent/TS.

CalcioFool

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rdj — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:28 MST

@Codexx: DON'T QUESTION IT. You might scare it back into the wilderness.

rdj

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Codexx — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:47:08 MST

Sony implemented a Decent feature, did it well, and did it without stealing the idea?

Woah, this is...new. Are we sure it'll work? For sure?

Codexx

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baked ham — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:46:30 MST

So some of these features could make in to PS3 games, right? That'd be so awesome!

baked ham

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Kaljin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:56 MST

Oh god...I play WoW, and the voice chat is very, very bad. I agree wholeheartedly.

Kaljin

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

K-Squad! (Badass Edition) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:36:19 MST

Seems like a good time to bring this up... *ehem*

I WANT PLANETSIDE 2!!!!!!!!!

:end:

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

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ittekimasu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:32:48 MST

wtg for giving a good service without paying for it, forever. i hope.

ittekimasu

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Tei — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:31:51 MST

@Irenicus-the one and only: Thats beyond words. IMPRESIVE MACHINIMA, If I ever see one. Thats now my #3 favorite, below Quake1 Blabalicous, and one about a robot (forgot the name) that use a custom engine. :O

Tei

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GreenCard200 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:30:36 MST

This is actually really awesome. Hopefully other companies follow their lead.

GreenCard200

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:20:22 MST

@Winterbringer: SWG... I swear, if they release a pre NGE server I will play it again.

Irenicus-the one and only

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Lancehead — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:19:47 MST

Very cool. Hope this gets implemented on the PS3 version of The Agency.

Lancehead

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Doshu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:19:25 MST

@Winterbringer: If only there were some half decent SOE MMO's. Everquest 2 is the only vague success.

IIRC EQ1 was quite a bit more successful than EQ2 has been. I enjoyed EQ1, but I find EQ2 to be a much better game in many ways.

@Highlander Wolf: The Station Launcher is a program Sony use to launch and patch their games.

Doshu

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Ahsayuni — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:17:28 MST

Ive been keeping my eye on the agency for a while now.

Ahsayuni

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Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:12:06 MST

@deathbunny: Pretend? :P

Irenicus-the one and only

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Highlander Wolf — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:11:55 MST

So, I'm behind the times -- what is the Station Launcher?

Highlander Wolf

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Winterbringer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:11:33 MST

If only there were some half decent SOE MMO's. Everquest 2 is the only vague success.

Winterbringer

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deathbunny — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:09:47 MST

Voice masking?! YESS! I can finally pretend to be a woman over TS!

deathbunny

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Doshu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:09:20 MST

As an EQ2 player, this is totally cool.

@Zepultura: Yeah, I can imagine beggars will be a total pain. If they're smart, they'll use the same "/ignore {insert tool name here}" command so you're not constantly hearing "gimme plat" every time you return to town.

Doshu

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nukednova — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:08:39 MST

Sounds like a must have for any MMO player. The cell phone/land line idea sounds pretty cool too. I wonder if it's going to be considered long distance if you live in the UK/America/not in the same country as the server you are on.

nukednova

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LimeyGeeza — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:07:52 MST

So how about implementing this on the PS3 as well?

LimeyGeeza

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Covert_Knight — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:05:08 MST

"half ass" and SOE go together like milk and cookies...

Covert_Knight

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

LittleBigPlaneteer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:03:10 MST

I can't wait for The Agency. It's a sleeper hit in my book, just wait till people find out more about it. It actually includes mobile phone integration and allows you to make game decisions through your phone while away from home. Pretty cool stuff

LittleBigPlaneteer

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Zepultura — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:02:39 MST

just wonder how they'll handle arsehats or if theyll allow an admin level ability to channel hosts to deal with them. Lord knows after my 1500th ban of some jagoff from my clan & guilds Vent channels, I know how aggravating some people can be. And dread even thinking theyll have free reign on something that sounds so delicious.

Zepultura

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aka Bitter — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:01:44 MST

Would be great to see this on the PS3. Would really give Sony the edge in voice chat over the 360.

aka Bitter

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

darkthanatos — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:56:55 MST

Wow, the list of features seems pretty nice, but I can only see the potential problems that being able to call in to a voice-chat server from your cellphone will cause. I mean, there are already people that constantly hang out in TeamSpeak and Ventrillo voice servers... with this they could do the same thing from the comfort of their living rooms (or am I suppose to use the normal cliche and say 'from their basements' ;)

darkthanatos

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Deadeyereborn — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:56:53 MST

At first I was like "yeah for another 8 bucks a month *eyeroll*" then I saw that it was free which is sweet lets hope its as good as they say it is.

Deadeyereborn

SOE And Vivox Go Way Beyond In-Game Voice Chat

Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:49:23 MST

Wern't that the same company that made the voice chat support for EvE Online? Nice news btw, even if MMO's is still one of those games online where I don't miss voice chat support in the game.

Irenicus-the one and only

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Playstation — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:48:36 MST

Hey that is just awesome!!!

Playstation