I hate the tendancy to voice. People started doing it for one reason only - to give themselves an edge on other people over and above skill of actually playing the game.awarkle wrote:Most guild groups now adays use vent / teamspeak or other to comunicate information no longer is the famous
"INC INC INC INC "
" Where"
"never mind we are mezzed"
"PURGE"
"cant its down"
"never mind release guys"
"what ?"
sort of chat messages
on vent we can comunicate far far better than we can using chat programs we know if somthings going wrong or if someones nuking or added on the fight. So we can react far better also thats 8 eyes watching different perspectives while panning the camera around so when someone says incoming from behind we can all turn and attack instantly.
Ok it seems unfair to mr soloer who cant react as quickly or the group of pugs that have just left druim ligen. But thats how things move along if we didnt have ventrillo or teamspeak we would just work out another means to fight.
also i have to stop aoe dotting everything
Radaring is obvious only when you are probbly a stealther everyone remembers that minstrel destealthing and kiting those peeps".
and remember you could be rvring with someone who does radar and you would never know about it you could just think "gee this person knows where the fights are hes a good driver".
so dont just think the enemy radar there could be people who you respect who radar in your own realms.
Now anyone who can't use voice is at a severe disadvantage. Has the game improved? No - all the people using voice are right back where they started when everyone was using text. Only now they have an unfair advantage over people who don't use third-party products to increase their chances of winning fights.
Even without voice the game was getting far too twitch-driven with cast speeds, etc. With voice it's over the line a long way.
Using little bits of help to give you an edge is as futile as the arms race, and only degrades the game experience over time.