Guild Wars 2

Having played this game for nearly 3 years I’ve come to the conclusion that getting everyone on TS for tactical coordination is not going to happen. Lots of folks don’t like to use TS for whatever reason (insufficient hardware, anonymity protection, laziness etc).

What about integrating speech to text functionality into the application (or as an Overwolf extension)? That way commanders could “multicast” in both TS AND chat. This would satisfy both camps and greatly enhance large scale game play.

I take it you’ve never used speech to text before….

because I have, and so have many others- and trust me when I say is not that functional. especially with low quality mics and accents. seriously watch YouTube with CC on, it’s a good laugh.

Not to mention that especially commanders talk a lot on TS (especially during fights and stuff). They would hit flood control in no time.

Why not just add VoiP to the game? LotRO has that and it works fine. No need to log into anything then, just right click commander and join chat channel.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Why not just add VoiP to the game? LotRO has that and it works fine. No need to log into anything then, just right click commander and join chat channel.

That would cost additional money for Anet with no return. You would still not have a lot join. Some by choice, some still won’t be able to for various reasons. Oh a few might be more inclined to join, but I wouldn’t expect many more at all.

Well… I still could see that work. Assign a button on your mouse for “push to talk” for the voice to text application, and you won’t flood the channel. The accents and low quality mics are still a problem. But honestly, I have sometimes problems understanding my commanders in TS anyway because of the same issues… so no change there^^