In terms of actual functionality (actually being able to communicate effectively and efficiently with other players) all three get the job done just fine. I personally switch between vent and ts3 depending on who I happen to be playing with. The ability to customize codecs on TS3 is undeniably better, I'm not sure I'd consider the bandwidth effects all that important however, as voice bandwidth is not all that high (this may be important to some individuals, particularly if you have, or play with someone who has, highly limited bandwidth) All 3 programs do have mobile device apps although they may not all be available on all mobile OSs. I know iOS has all three, although the mumble app is the only one that is free (a positive point in mumble's favor for any iPhone user). The other features I would personally describe as fluff and consider largely irrelevant. If you're interested in fluff, then for sure TS3 is the way to go, otherwise I'd say all 3 will get the job done just fine.

Given that 60,000 CC would currently run a price of roughly 435 USD alone this is a pretty wild wish list.

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I think there's tons of room for good mmos in the market, I just think that devs need to do their homework and avoid design mistakes that have already been made by past games. Unfortunately, from what I have seen so far BW doesn't seem to be very good at this. There is certainly going to be more and more competition and only the best products are going to survive and prosper. As a previous poster said, they aren't comparing this directly to wow after years of polish, but most people also aren't going to compare it to old mmos at launch either. Swtor has to either compete or die, just like every other game.

Without major improvements, no. 11 months is a long ways off though so who knows.

Unless of course you are a pvp developer, then you have to wait 240 days due to 'Dev Imbalance'. Also don't forget that the first tier of bags has a 1/10 chance of having either your paycheck or just a picture of an old paycheck you already cashed (and no, you don't get extra food stamps for the latter).

Sadly, this is very accurate. As a 50 in nearly full champ gear, if I could turn off leveling on alts I would totally do this. Expertise simply provides way too much advantage with no entry level gear to bridge the gap. Even 2v1 fresh 50's are just free kills.

The random lottery system is fail. It has been done and abandoned/reworked in past mmos. BW devs were just to stupid to realize this and avoid the mistake to begin with.

Random bag loot is part of the problem, however a much larger issue is the lack of any easily obtainable entry level gear. yes there was a gear gap in wow, but there were crafted pvp alternatives with resil to get you started in the grind. BW needs to put back the blue level entry gear or just make centurion more accessible as an entry level set. As it stands now centurion is just a stop gap for the stupidity of the random bags so you get something useful despite countless champion duplicates.

#1 has been suggested more times on this forum than I could possibly count. It has also been sent as feedback in game through CS. I'm just convinced that the Devs are hell bent on trying to see if they can make every major mistake any other mmo has ever made.....

Are people that start threads with "Discuss!" a joke?

I play a 50 Guardian and quite enjoy it. The class doesn't really come into its own until the mid levels (25 through 35) when you start to get your toolbox abilities (push, stasis, sabre throw ect). Once I made it to this point the class was much much more fun to play.

As I said, I would support a competitive rated alternative as the alternative route to pvp gear, as long as there is an alternative to just arenas. How would a competitive rated matchmaking warzone system be any less competitive a route than a rated arena system? I'm by no means suggesting the current system where you can just show up and go afk should be the alternative, obviously a similar level of effort should be required. As to my second point, it is a perfectly fair assessment. If we are going to have only ONE route to gear which is trivially chosen based on the preference of only some players why not just pve raiding? (note that I'm by no means advocating for this but just pointing out what I consider the stupidity in insisting arenas be the ONLY path)

That assassins are in serious need of a nerf????

Players are actually sorted initially by medal count (not that this is necessarily any better) Honestly though you shouldn't really be concerned about mvp. It is nothing more than a simple way to show some nearly meaningless appreciation for someone you thought was good. each vote is 1 extra commendation and a trivial amount of valor. It really isn't going to make one spec of difference in your gear/valor grind.