VOice chat in gameFollow

All,

I have not eve tried to use voice chat in EQ2.

So, are there poeple out there doing this, and if so, is there in-game features for this, or is a third party product preferred or required.

I did not see this posted anywhere else, but i dod not look too long either. Figured I want fresh answers anyway. :-)

Thanks in advance for the help!

Something I should add. While I know a lot of people that use and love voice chat, it just wasn't for me. I have notions in my head of how different races should sound, and no one I know in the game was living up to my expectations. It really broke immersion for me and I ended up turning it off after just a little while.

I'm friends with everyone and wouldn't mind chatting it up on the phone once in a while, but trying to match up a southern United States accent with an Erudite or High Elf just kind of messed it up for me.

That's kind of the point. Having any real life voice associated with a purely fantasy character was kind of shocking to me. It was ok when I watched LOTR trilogy, but then again, those were trained actors.

Do roleplayers use voice chat or is it mainly people who are into min-maxing the mechanics of the encounters? I could probably get past odd voices (But imagine James Earl Jones as a Gnome. Maybe not...) but playing EQ2 like CounterStrike wouldn't appeal to me at all.

Edited, Thu Mar 23 14:29:41 2006 by Lydiaele