Gamergod has an interesting article up about text vrs. voice in online games.
"MMOGs are just getting faster, to a point where text chat will be a problem for voicechat to solve. As each new generation of titles come, now targetting the upper hundreds of thousands of subscriptions, this will mean more people playing than were back when I started. As a result, the new players will decide the best form of communication, and drive evolution going forward. If they come for the action, text is holding them back, and heck, they're already used to voicechat from other games, then I suspect I'll be pulling my headset out of mothballs and updating my Teamspeak software."
(Fri Oct 21, 2005 ) |
