Guild Banks and Voice Chat - Coming to a WoW Near You

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GammaRaptor — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:34 GMT

Its about damn time blizz added VoIP, three cheers for blizz

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Wibbit — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:33 GMT

the guild bank idea sounds like a waste of time, guilds that have personal banks are not going to use this idea, and anyone who does is just going to get bit in the end

the voip sounds nice though.

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Lothaer — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:32 GMT

i think guilds would still rather use Teamspeak/Ventrilo aqnd i bet Blizzard will make people pay extra to use it and itll most probably make the game alot more laggy.

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aikouka — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:31 GMT

Wibbit, I don't see why you think this is a waste of time. Personal banks, i.e. a bank character, are playing with fire. If that account goes down for whatever reason (Blizzard banning for something or whatever), you're stuck without the entire bank. Also, a private bank can only be accessed by those with access to the account. If the account owner gives out the password to select few, this still jeopardizes the account's security, which can make the account subject to being banned by Blizzard. If this guild bank is implemented well... such as different levels of interaction given for different guild ranks, I think it will be a welcome addition.

Also think about this part of it... if Blizzard gives us 100 spaces for free, that's cheaper than buying bags and the bag spaces in a character's bank. So if the bank ever switches, you aren't wasting money just buying more bag space.

I don't see how you can even see a single negative in this...

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Litvan — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:30 GMT

voip = bad idea... servers are already laggy or close to laggy... adding voip means they'll have to tie it to the game-ui so that you can see who's talking.. meaning running voip on the gameserver aswell.. resulting in laggy servers

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XylanTrueheart — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:29 GMT

Guild banks are a good idea as they can give stricter controls on access of items and dispensing of items.

As for in game chat. I know why a lot people would like it and use it especially in cases for raid instructions. However I use hearing aids and have too much difficulty in understanding most people and I used both Vent and TS. Personally I don't want to hear other people in the game as I prefer to use my own imagination for each character I come across

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ratkid132 — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:28 GMT

People have been requesting this for millenia!

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Kody — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:27 GMT

No, this is after 2.1.

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ratkid132 — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:26 GMT

So is this actually coming in 2.1 (VOIP and GBanks?)

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dhask — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:25 GMT

"adding voip means they'll have to tie it to the game-ui so that you can see who's talking.."

Yes.

"meaning running voip on the gameserver aswell.."

No.

It means having a shared piece of data to identify a participant in a voice chat as a particular player. Like, say, an ID, or a name.

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dhask — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:24 GMT

I already refuse to join voice chat for most 5-man runs, since I play in the lounge room while my girlfriend watches TV. Voice chat means we get into an arms race for who has the loudest volume, then I get up for a piss, someone in-game says "'yo, dhask, something important", I get back, but oh look, voice chat has no scroll-back.

As long as I can disable it so I don't hear other people, I'm easy. They can yell at me for heals all they like, I'm specced feral.

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Hrethic — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:23 GMT

@ XylanTrueheart

There will be a master-control option that disables it. You don't have to use it at all, that's what's great about it.

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ratkid132 — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:22 GMT

Ah ok :)

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Sanalia — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:21 GMT

Being specced feral doesn't mean you can't heal at all, same with shamans, pallies and priests who aren't specced to their healing talents. Saying you can't heal even though you have healing spells is just stupid. Even if you can't heal much coz of low mana pool, you're still able to heal some health

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Lothaer — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:20 GMT

Blizzard should just stick with what they no best and thats making games.... did i just say that???