Guild Wars 2

This is what I want to see in an upcoming Patch.

Leave the Text chat alone, but give the players an option to disable it (with the exception of /msg, that should be ’On -Popup). And add in the same /map /guild /party /Team Options for Voice.

I would say, Guild should be the default Voice-Chat when you first login. If you join WvW then /Map or /Team should be, same goes for a 5man party in PvE (/Party would default then).

For Boss Events (Shatterer, Teq, Jormag mainly in mind) Force players in the area to default to /map.

And give players options on what chat rooms default to in what conditions, so that if they never want to leave guild chat except when they do WvW, that’s how it works per the players preference.

Its 2013 – and 1999 wants their text chat back. Lets comply!

P.S. – The system resources on this would not be that bad. If you ran a SIP embedded client using 96K compression, the Bitrate would be 110-125kbps per client. Thats about 15 VoIP Sessions per 1.5Mbps of internet. With how cheap BW is now, you COULD get a 1Gpbs connection from Cogent for 750/Month at most datacenters. The cost to support the Community would really be minimal. And if you hosted this on a dynamic Asterisk system the cost would only be CPU/RAM (which I’m going to say, should be minimal since you are virtual already…i HOPE), and Bandwidth (1Gbps should Suffice).

Just saying….other then R&D, there is no good excuse not to be working on this.

Ventrillo, Raidcall, Mumble, Skype, Teamspeak

Those services listed above are good excuses not to be working on this.

I was honestly shocked when I first got this game, logged in, and found out there wasn’t any VoIP support. kitten!? Oh well. I had Skype installed already, but didn’t want to start adding random people to my list.