by Savanja on Feb 20, 2008
A good portion of EverQuest II players use a voice chat system like Ventrillo or Teamspeak to communicate to our fellow players. This keeps us in solid contact with our own guilds and groups during playtime making gaming all that much more manageable.
Now imagine having this service built into the game where you would not have to use stand alone clients or use your own bandwidth to run a server! Other games already do it, and SOE has struck a deal to add this service to the many perks their players already receive.
In an agreement announced Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference between SOE and Vivox, Inc., an established provider of high quality voice communications, players will be able to access a suite of voice communication tools including voice mail, voice fonts to synthesize player voices into in-game character voices, and the ability to receive external calls in SOE games.
Give the full press release a read by visiting Forbes.com!