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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1844)1/25/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)   of 2443
 
Validating Talk n' Play?:"Real time voice is the next big thing"

"...You know what? The more I write about the state of online gaming in this fine medium we call the Internet the more I feel as though we're missing something important. No matter how you slice it, there's still something strangely empty about online gaming. It seems as though the social aspect hasn't taken hold as much as it should. And that lack of sociality seems to have hurt the sense of community that was once expected to be the "killer app" of online gaming.

Large-scale online RPGs such as Ultima Online might support text for large group communications and voice for smaller parties such as this Think about it. First-person shooters such as Quake and Unreal are a helluva lot of fun to play competitively, but communication is sadly limited to short, poorly-typed messages sent in the heat of battle while being fragged. Large-scale online RPGs such as Ultima Online are far more suited to conversation, but even then you have the problem of trying to comprehend lines of multi-colored text cluttering up the screen, not to mention the relatively slow speed of typing to communicate, versus just saying it. In the end, I feel disenfranchised, and not at all as involved as I once did. Obviously, something's changed for me… and after thinking on it for a while, I realized what it was: real-time voice communication… or the lack thereof..."

source: © Posted on 10/24/1998 cdmag.com cdmag.com
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