Originally by: Sir Juri

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Originally by: Blind Man

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its useless. they say it will solve the problem of getting people on ts etc, when in fact it will do the opposite since not everyone will have it

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I thought it would solve the problem of no voice communication between people not in same corp/alliance and for those that cant set up a TS/vent server themselves.

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Originally by: Nate D

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Edited by: Nate D on 08/11/2006 22:59:25

Originally by: Hllaxiu

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Originally by: The Mute

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Teamspeak/Vent are not free. Someone is paying for the server that everyone connects to. True that a server can be run off a home connection but most home connections can not handle the bandwidth usage for a large fleet op.

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From what I understand, CCP is going to charge everyone in my alliance $1 to use this. Lets say there are 800 people in my alliance. $800/month will buy a hell of a lot of bandwidth, more than eve-radio asks for in donations in a month for example, and they're streaming 24/7 at 96kbit to hundreds of people at a time!

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The price of $1 a month has not been confirmed this is just the rumored price that consumers are willing to pay for this feature.

And from what I gather... we are not paying CCP at all for the chat... we are going to be paying for the voice service by the people who provide it... Vivox.

So CCP is not asking for all that money for bandwidth... And as a business move... even though it is a much cheaper subscription cost per month than say VoIP phone service... it looks like Vivox has found a very good investment... a cheap way to "provide for the better good" I'd like to say...

Hmmm... but maybe ccp should just raise the subscription costs by a dolar a month... and just pay for the whole cluster to have VoIP access... /me shrugs... what do you think?

-NateÖ

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