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General: SOE, Vivox Partnership
Szark
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced a deal with Vivox to provide voice communication tools for SOE's roster games.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, is poised to revolutionize the way gamers stay connected with sophisticated new voice services where fellow gamers and guild mates are never more than a shout away.
Need standard chat for groups and raids? Check. Don't want to tie up your own bandwidth? Roger that. Want your voice to sound completely different? Done. Late for your raid but want to take part in the group setup by cell phone? Can do. Dream of having in-game voicemail? There ya go. Playing a non-SOE game but want to use this service, free of charge? Aye.
These powerful community building features and tools are coming to SOE games at no additional cost to players and go far beyond basic real-time chat with the usual headset and microphone setup that is commonly used today.
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.
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Comments
This actually sounds pretty interesting. I'm not accustomed to SOE doing cool things but this actually has potential.
I am really excited about this. Hopefully it will work like the chat does and cross servers/games
Sounds to good to be true
Time will tell.....
Honestly, I'm waiting for the catch....
Like it'll only work if you buy a Blu-Ray HD DVD player.
Wont that just make more lag in SOE games? Which as I remember was pretty laggy from the start, of course it has been sometime since i've played one of their games, so thats why I am asking.
Blizzard introduced a chat channel on WoW and it lagged me out a bit and that game plays on anything.
It's a good feature to have and it shocked me that they are adding it for FREE! SOE and free in the same sentence - lemmie check the bible I think that is a sign from the book of revelations.
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
can i use this to contact people playing the nge and laugh at them?
arguing with a corporate fanboi is like teaching special education.
even if you teach him something...at the end of the day he's still retarded.
Poor Vivox they just signed a deal to supply new high quality deck chairs for the SOE titanic
From the article..
"Furthermore, the voice features will be hosted and professionally managed on the Vivox Network so users won't be cutting into their valuable bandwidth."
Probably no more lag than if you were using vent or ts
Be kinda interesting to walk into the Mos Eisley cantina and actually hear cantina-like chatter.
Sorry Obraik, I couldn't resist.
they are going to have the npc's on voice chat?!
arguing with a corporate fanboi is like teaching special education.
even if you teach him something...at the end of the day he's still retarded.