Takigama
Black Eclipse Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.11.13 16:32:00 -
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The are a couple of things that bother me about the whole thing, yes its great cause its integrated but...
The thing that bothers me alot about the whole external subscription based thing is the way eve has worked to date. One of the things that did really draw me to it originally was the fact it was always just a one-off (monthly) fee.
10$ a year is practically 0 so the cost doesnt bother me, but looking at other mmo's i've been in one thing that always hurt was published (and not-for-free) expansions. They always tended to hurt the guild you were in cause you could guarantee that someone wouldnt get it and they'd leave due to not having anyone to "play with" cause everyone was playing with the "new stuff".
The point i was trying to make though is that up until now having an eve account meant you had all the tools at your disposal (from a ccp/eve-onoline perspective) that everyone else in game had. Which is quite a big (attractive) bonus really.
The second thing is there are not a small number of people out there who are using GTC's (either cause they dont have a credit card, or they earn enough in-game that it covers them).
Lastly there's those players out there that dont have access to TS/ventrillo/etc, dont really get why people use it and giving them access to it would probably change their entire perspective of the game really (something they may not pay for cause they thing "i'd never use that").
I dont fall into any of the above categories, and i dont think it'd hurt the game at all if it was implemented as a yearly fee, but the one-payment-covers-all deal is just such an attractive part of the eve landscape.
As for how does it compare to TS/Ventrillo in terms of performance and cost? well, i dont know why people keep saying it sounds better because i dont think it does personally, but $10 vs $3 (2.7c/day vs 0.8c/day), well no matter how you look at, $7 a year difference is hard to care about 
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Takigama
Black Eclipse Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.11.13 16:37:00 -
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 Originally by: Nate D
Originally by: Hertford
Can the VoIP be told to use a USB headset for recording and playback, whilst the main client continues to use the main soundcard?
Not currently... This must be changed for even me to subscribe to it... but as it is a pretty important feature I'm sure it will be added before the release.
-NateÖ
Personally, i'll get it either way, but that and the vox-only (i.e. no push-to-talk) are the only things it really absolutely must have.
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