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I'll be very impressed if they can peel a particular segment of gamers away from Ventrilo.

World of Warcraft has voice chat built right in to the game but no one uses it. You would think Blizzard doing voice chat would wipe out third party competitors; the precise opposite is true.

Also, dealing with whiny teenage gamers as users is enough to make anyone want to kill themselves. Exhibit A: the WoW forums, which are actually stupider than YouTube comments.



There are a lot of games that need voice chat that do not have it. Most other MMOs come to mind - there is plenty of starving market before you even get to the behemoth that is WoW.




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