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Cub

Cub

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I currently use either Voxli or Skype while playing Runescape. It's much easier to communicate with other players through voice rather than text. I personally would love to see a voice chat feature on this game. Skype lags Runescape and Voxli lags while running Runescape. If a voice chat feature is added, that may take those problems away as a completely separate program won't be needed. =)
-Cub

03-Mar-2011 18:33:37

Obliv

Obliv

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Although voice chat can be very useful, especially for group activities (like dungeoneering), I do not think that a voice chat system in RuneScape itself would be terribly useful.
1) If a player disconnects from the game, then the voice chat is gone, as well, so nobody knows when the player can come back.
2) If other free voice chat solutions do not work (ex. Skype), then the RuneScape VOIP system will have difficulty working where dedicated applications do not.
3) If the quality or accessibility of the voice chat is inferior to external solutions, only users who cannot use other voice chat programs will use the built-in chat. This comes up frequently in other PC games, even high profile ones, such as StarCraft II, where the voice chat is simply an inferior choice. This is a very important concern.

03-Mar-2011 18:34:43

XI
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XI

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i like the sound of this and i think if jagex dose make some kind of Voice Chat thing it would be a nice and cool way for the player and and jagex staff to get in touch with each other and get feedback
i have been using Voice Chat programs wile playing this game since 2007 i use ventrillo and skype the most

03-Mar-2011 18:34:52

Vanilor

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This is a great idea.
Personally, about ninety percent of the time I'm on Ventrillo or Skype while I play RuneScape.
This may only sound like an update for PKer's but this can also greatly benefit skillers aswell, due to the fact long hours of "grinding" can get boring after a while.
While I can say I would support the idea 110%, you may need some sort of system preventing it from, as others said before; "Becoming an XBox live chat".
On a technical aspect, I would be curious to find out how you plan on hosting the calls.
More like Ventrillo with a server controlled by JaGex? Or more like skype with a desginated call host using their own machine?
A client hosted call would need to be well coded and networked on Jagex's server side to hide certain "numbers". RuneScape doesn't need an infestation of people willing to break real life laws for pixels. :|

03-Mar-2011 18:34:57 - Last edited on 03-Mar-2011 18:51:00 by Vanilor

Funfur
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Funfur

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Plz say it isnt going to happen.
Judging from the level of maturity Ive seen ingame I think its a verry bad idea.
I can only imagine the lvl of flame,spam and hate this will bring into the game.

03-Mar-2011 18:35:20

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03-Mar-2011 18:38:13

LordThor

LordThor

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I have not used voice chat in the game before, hadn't even thought about it. But now that I have thought about it, I think it sounds great!
When doing things like fighting bosses, having to take time to type, can be fatal sometimes.
It'd be great for clan events.
I'd love to see a voice chat feature built into the game.
~Thor~ :)

03-Mar-2011 18:40:15

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