On Tuesday NCsoft announced a strategic partnership with voice chat technology provider Vivox to add voice support across its library of titles. The partnership creates an NCsoft-branded communications portal between all games in the NCsoft library and will include a robust feature-set, including: voice mail and communication via regular phones and text messages.
"We will be able to offer our players a commanding set of communication tools that will simplify communications amongst the player base with far reaching options," said Peter Jarvis, vice president of operations for NCsoft North America. "We anticipate a successful integration and long-term relationship [with Vivox]."
No estimated date of implementation for the tech was announced.
[via Develop Mag]
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Rad, that is great news. I've been wondering why it's taken so long for MMOs to get built in voice chat. Something like this would definitely make me look twice at NCsoft MMOs. For the time being I'm preped for Age of Conan so they will have to wait. :P
...bysmittyPosted at 11:21AM on May 15th 2008 by bysmitty