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Daelin Blackleaf
No Joy Corp
Pride - Honor - Duty
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Posted - 2007.03.21 01:40:00 -
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More competitive?
I'm poor... heck I'm poorer than poor. I eats my Tesco Value and drinks my Traitors Gate (1ltr of Vodka for less than a packet of cigarettes... if you can bring yourself to drink it) so I can afford to give the little un's walkers crisps and Bernard Matthews turkey dinosaurs.
I'm as poor as all that, I gots no job, my government taxes me to the hilt, I lives in a cruddy over-priced little village, can't afford a car, and the benefits for parents never seem to go up with the prices and you know what... I can afford Vivox.
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Daelin Blackleaf
No Joy Corp
Pride - Honor - Duty
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Posted - 2007.03.21 14:48:00 -
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It is not free because it is not handled by CCP. It's a service provided by an outside company with their own servers and their own costs.
CCP's only other options would be to provide the service themselves (which would require a lot of dedictation and likely cost them more than getting vivox to do it) or to pay it themselves. Either way the price gets passed down to us either as an extra ú1 a month or as reduced content/fixes due to the money going elsewhere.
As for the TS/Vent fans, yes the fact that it works out of game is a HUGE advantage. It's being worked on with Vivox. Get me a TS server with 30,000+ slots and we'll talk comparitive prices.
This feature is basically in it's first and most basic implementation, likely to see if money can be made from it before more money is spent on it. If it does well expect to see far more from it, including yet closer integration with the client and other added features you will never see on TS/Vent. The added separate price ensures that Vivox must perform well, they must improve, it means that they compete with others instead of receiving a monopoly on EvE voice comms at which point advancement grinds to a halt.
There will in time be other corporations offering similar services to Vivox due to the increasing size of the MMO market. Competition will keep these services healthy and progressing.
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Daelin Blackleaf
No Joy Corp
Pride - Honor - Duty
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Posted - 2007.03.21 23:29:00 -
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 Originally by: Cipher7
Voice client is a crappy idea.
We didn't need it.
You should spend your resources on things that actually improve the game.
Your ignorance is stunning, did you read the thread at all? Did you find out anything at all about vivox before you posted?
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Daelin Blackleaf
No Joy Corp
Pride - Honor - Duty
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Posted - 2007.03.22 13:08:00 -
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Everyone seems to assume that the only use it has is fleet combat as that is all they use TS/Vent for apparently.
You can use Vivox whenever you want to switch a convo to voice comms without alt-tabbing to TS, setting up a "room" and alt-tabbing back. Not to mention the fact that you can do this with people who aren't on your TS server.
Those who prefer to type will still do so. Even if it were free. I myself would rarely use Vivox due to my PC being situated in the living-room and my constant chatter would drive my partner crazy. It's still well worth the money, especially for those who will get a lot of use out of it.
In time it will come to work out of game and will be quite viable for use by fleets (especially if a large proportion of people don't subscribe to it until then). However if too few people subscribe then it will vanish along with the greatest potential for integrated voice comms this game is likely to see in a long time.
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