Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Voice in MMORPGs

[quote name="Senor Barborito"]Richard Bartle makes an extended version of the argument I present against the voice design point in MMORPGs in my currently unposted piece on 8 critical design points in MMORPGs <a href="http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/07/28/not_yet_you_fools.html">here</a>. His reasons and conclusions mirror my own - speech to text and text to speech (hopefully with an 'emotional markup language' in the future) are infinitely preferrable to voice chat in MMORPGs, save I would change his 'not yet you fools!' to 'never ever ever you fools!' Apologies for reposting a slashdot link, but the point is worth discussing. --SB [/quote]