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[Detrevni|inverteD]

Bumping to say that today only Guild Wars 2 is 40% off!

[Ygdrad]

Bumping to say that today only Guild Wars 2 is 40% off!

Thanks for letting us know, I'll try to get some more people to buy it.

By the way, I'm currently playing and logged onto my engineer, Vaan Ish, feel free to add me and we can have some fun.

[Jimmy]

Probably not personally coming back to this one until they support some kind of native party voice chat system. Seems a little silly to need to use third party clients in this day and age. Although frankly, the party system in general could really use reworking in my opinion. It's just a solo grind on the overworld map, with a few high intensity dungeons for true small scale party co-op play.

[Zangi]

Do any MMOs actually host some type of voice chat system these days?

[My Name is Immaterial]

Never actually heard of that before.

[Sonlirain]

Umm... PLanetside 2 and most Battlefield games.
They're not really MMORPGs tho.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I guess PS2 sort of counts, but they are more FPS then RPG

[Thexor]

Yeah... communication in GW2 is pretty dismal. If I type 2 sentences during a zerg, that's probably 2 more than anyone but the commander said. Integrated voice chat would hopefully change that a bit. 

[Niveras]

Do any MMOs actually host some type of voice chat system these days?

WoW did or does. I want to say that either EQ or EQ2 did or does at some point, but not sure. But, these options are generally really crappy compared to actual voice programs like Teamspeak or Ventrilo. Bare minimum, any voice chat system needs the ability not merely to adjust your output, global input, and mute specific individuals, but also adjust the incoming volume of specific individuals as well. Sometimes people sound mostly fine but they come in at 175% and someone else is at 40% and they both talk lots (and sometimes important things) so you can't just mute them but it's really annoying to get a volume that can hear one without blowing out your ears when the other talks.

When third party systems also offer things like mixers and adjust specific frequencies, game-integrated voice chat just becomes a pitiful shadow whose only benefit is convenience when you're doing something without your friends, which means it's likely not so hard that you need the celerity of voice chat to coordinate in real time.

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And wow, I do not want to hear 40+ people bullshitting in voice in GW2 zerg, nor to do I want to spend the time muting them all. If ArenaNET does ever bother with it, they could take a page from PS2 and have separate raid leader, raid, group leader, group channels so you can mute some in one click without muting the important stuff. (Though it's not a big deal anyway since I haven't played GW2 much these days.)

[Reudh]

With my CPU / GPU I just flat out can't play in some areas until they fix that skill lag shit up.

WvW is near impossible when a zerg comes close.

(AMD Vision A8 APU "Trinity" @ 1.9ghz / 2.8ghz turbo quad core, AMD Radeon HD 7640G+7610M Dual @ 1GB VRAM)

[Ygdrad]

If anyone ends up buying the game and is looking for people to play with, just hit me up, I'm still playing the game with friends.

[JimboM12]

Bumping to mention that anyone on GW2 who's looking for a guild can join CSW on Darkhaven. If you need to transfer servers, I'm willing to grind dungeons and fractals with you to help your move. We're pretty small, but we've got the guild stash and our banner is so awesome your eyes will melt. We play pretty casually, but any Bay12 forumite is guaranteed membership. I'll ask you to send your pm to Masnum or Jimbo.8952, and ask that you include your Bay12 name in the mail.

I've got a blog set up with some GW2 related links at http://cthulhusavestheworld.blogspot.com

[Ygdrad]

I can't switch server, I'd have to drag too many people with me . A decent few of us Bay12ers are on Emhry Bay already anyways, not that many still play.

[RedKing]

I'm on Kaineng, with a small guild (read: me) if there's any B12'ers on that server who would like to team up.

[Ghills]

Enjoying the Christmas holiday stuff so far. Looks like a reprise of a bunch of stuff from last year with a new story.  BRB, owning people in Bell Choir.