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Drunken Joy
Nov Member 2010

Drunken Joy

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Oh thank you Jagex! :D I hope my suggestion thread had any influence. ;)
Though... I love the idea yet it seems you haven't gone into clear detail how it will work out. It would be better to say so before I tell people "oh look at my thread, be the same as the update". I just hope you do look at all the other voice chat threads and look at what the players want and think about it first hand instead of some survey.

For those who want to see my suggestion on this, please visit this thread. QFC: 185-186-295-62154068

04-Mar-2011 03:21:46

Gargon Roo
Jun Member 2018

Gargon Roo

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Hello,
I (we) my family & friends have been using a 3rd party voice chat for a long time now. It works very well on and off of game sites. We can even chat across game platforms. It's free and very stable. There is no impact on our bandwidth and we use 'hands' free mode, but need to keep the volume low from the game(s) we're playing.
If you ,JAGEX, are planing to add an in game voice chat it would be best if you would correct all the game problems you have now. Like loose the obsolete game script and change to an up to date engine as anymore load would surely bring RuneScape to a halt. I spend enough waiting time now for "LOADING PLEASE WAIT" and then when the game unlocks wondering if I got killed in the duration.
Thank you
Gargon Roo

04-Mar-2011 03:23:55

VVise OldMan

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ok I am actually astonished by the number of runescape players that use other ways to talk to eachother. I have been playing for a pretty signifigant number of years, and it has only recently came to my attention that ruenscape players talk to eachother even in typing forms on other sites or through downloads. I was always very cautious of keyloggers, and the only reason I trusted that was because I heard it from so many people, which now I hear its bad, so i'm glad I got rid of it.
I have recently been asked to try skype to communicate. I didn't think it was popular, and within the week after i got many more invitations to talk through skype. My mindset has alwyas been that they are some type of scammer, and its even against the rules to advertise sites, so I don't know why people are comfortable admitting to not only visiting sites to speak with fellow runescapers, but download stuff too. With how trustworthy that is to just jump into stuff really makes me wodner who's really at fault for the recent jump in hacks. getting back on topic. I havenever even heard of most of those ways of communicating, and I had absolutely no idea people did that type of activity.

I think adding runescape voicechat would be very pleasent as long as it doesn't create everyone's biggest fear.. that's right more lag.
I would say I would strongly prefer to only hear the players within a certain proximity, maybe a ltitle further than my map like the current way, but soon with voices. It might be confusing sometiems when 1 person can hear 2 people that cannot hear eachother, but that's ok. I would also like it if there was a very noticeable way to tell if someone is talking. like if there is a little signal over their head? or maybe in the corner of the screen? or maybe it to only be in clanchats?
I'm not really sure how jagex is contemplating this at all so I don't even know if my ideas are close to on track. I rthink it would be cool if our characters mouthg opened. :p(out of space)

04-Mar-2011 03:29:05 - Last edited on 04-Mar-2011 03:30:09 by VVise OldMan

Theron

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Honestly Jagex, just put it in regardless. Alot of the people that play runescape are socially awkward as i can see alot of the results were them not using voice chat. Anyways, it seems that half of the Runescape community wants it and half of them don't, I, on the other hand, am one of the half in favor of it, and i would very much appreciate this update. For those who dont want it, they can just not use it, see where im getting at? Voice chat isnt for everybody i suppose but it sure is for me :D

04-Mar-2011 03:32:06

VVise OldMan

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I reeally like Invisisniper's post, and I agree that for dungeoneering this would be pretty useful.
I would especially like this if it was pretty common that people on ruenscape were using headsets, and if there was a way to tell if they could even hear your headset or something. Maybe there could be an option to set where you cannot use a headset, and it lets other players know you do not have one, and if you can hear them or not. That would be very helpful.
I would like to be able to hear voices at a house party, but it would just be neat if we had it at all. I'm sure everyone is concerned mostly about lag, and that is a big thing to worry about, as you do not want such a successful game to be completely euined because nobody can do anything after they added voice communication.

04-Mar-2011 03:34:37 - Last edited on 04-Mar-2011 03:34:59 by VVise OldMan

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"Maybe there could be an option to set where you cannot use a headset, and it lets other players know you do not have one, and if you can hear them or not. That would be very helpful."
It would be helpful. I do not have a headset and have no interest in using voice chat.

04-Mar-2011 03:36:06

Tinamarie357
May Member 2006

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I think it would have its ups and downs,
ups== great for game sharing and it probably happens with thier own set up (Example) Yea Harry lure them out here I will wait you too Ted when they get by the bushes let us know so we can pop on and kill them.
(Example) hey Harry can I borrrow your GS?
(Example) Oh yea mom and dad wont be home till late on tuesday and I live at 124 south bend street in Dayton Ohio.
This will have its ups and downs they will all need to be wighed and your system will have to be updated does this mean my subscription will be costing me more?
How will it work for CC's Oh yea this should be fun
wily peng?? can I pleaseeeeeeee have update for karajama, and desert pengs? Chat goes so fast there now I can just hear the static from everyone yelling to find thier pengs lol
No thanks!

04-Mar-2011 03:38:01 - Last edited on 04-Mar-2011 03:38:34 by Tinamarie357

Crywolf
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I think this is a great idea. This will be a good way to talk to people in more dangerous situations such as the godwars dungeon and places like that. I have seen people almost die just because they were typing when they could have been eating. In game voice chat would be a very cool update. :)
But in my opinion though, I think that it should only be available in the clan chat or the private chat... unless there would be a organized way to talk in the public chat in crowded places such as the GE.. that would just be crazy in my opinion O_o
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04-Mar-2011 03:39:18

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