Beer Monkey
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kaching said:There will be plenty of games that support voice chat on the PS3. If this one doesn't, their call. I think mandating something like this as a part of any TRC checklist strays beyond what the purpose of a TRC should be and gets into platform owners telling developers how to make their games rather than just ensuring that software works on the platform as intended with minimal bugs.
We'll just have to agree to disagree and leave it at that. Live is a platform, and so is PSN, and I think it's fantastic that Microsoft insists that real in-game voice chat is standard in online games (for the last five years and counting) and I'd love to see Sony and Nintendo do the same. I'm sure they haven't chased off any developers with such a simple requirement, and since they give you the SDK code that you need to implement it nobody is going to complain about the effort.
And believe me, the only reason I'm posting is because I'm a huge HSG/EG fan and have been since day one, and I'm tremendously disappointed for my own selfish reasons to see them go this route.
There's no point in turning this thread into a neverending argument as to whether in-game voice should be standard for online games, so I'll drop it.