Voice chat, guild banks to be added to WoW after patch 2.1
It looks like Ventrillo and TeamSpeak are on the way out of Azeroth, as Blizzard is reportedly gearing up to add VoIP directly to World of Warcraft. According to Curse Gaming, this is one of the tidbits that World of Warcraft lead producer Shane Dabiri will reveal in an interview in the June 2007 issue of Games for Windows magazine.
In the WoW VoIP, a player’s name will reportedly be highlighted when they are talking, so other players will be able to click on the talker’s name to select them and give them their buff or heal. The in-game voice chat will apparently be available only to Parties and Raids at first, but will probably be expanded to include custom channels in the future.
Players will also reportedly have the option of separating the in-game voice chat from the game’s other sounds (music, etc.) and setting it to a different sound channel. In theory, this will let players have the game’s background sound and music piped through their regular speakers while the voice chat goes only to their headsets.
Another new feature that will reportedly be implemented after patch 2.1 goes live is the Guild Bank. This will let guild members use the money put in the bank, like a sort of community chest. The Guild Bank will also have hundreds of slots for items and such. Transactions will also reportedly be monitored and documented by Blizzard to prevent abuse.
Via Curse Gaming
It looks like Ventrillo and TeamSpeak are on the way out of Azeroth, as Blizzard is reportedly gearing up to add VoIP directly to World of Warcraft. According to Curse Gaming, this is one of the tidbits that World of Warcraft lead producer Shane Dabiri will reveal in an interview in the June 2007 issue of Games for Windows magazine.
In the WoW VoIP, a player’s name will reportedly be highlighted when they are talking, so other players will be able to click on the talker’s name to select them and give them their buff or heal. The in-game voice chat will apparently be available only to Parties and Raids at first, but will probably be expanded to include custom channels in the future.
Players will also reportedly have the option of separating the in-game voice chat from the game’s other sounds (music, etc.) and setting it to a different sound channel. In theory, this will let players have the game’s background sound and music piped through their regular speakers while the voice chat goes only to their headsets.
Another new feature that will reportedly be implemented after patch 2.1 goes live is the Guild Bank. This will let guild members use the money put in the bank, like a sort of community chest. The Guild Bank will also have hundreds of slots for items and such. Transactions will also reportedly be monitored and documented by Blizzard to prevent abuse.
Via Curse Gaming
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