Is Voice Chat the end of Role Play in SL?

Here's the remedy: add a simple "no sound" icon toggle that indicates you can't hear voice chat. That's all LL needs to do to complete the feature. Then people can clearly see that you can't hear them, and so they type for you. There, that sure did fix every single problem people are cutting themselves over. I understand the natural reaction to something that has a minor flaw is to cry foul and call for heads, but we really can fix the squeaky wheel with some oil rather than calling the entire carriage and its passengers broken.

Yes, I realize that not everyone who is against this feature is being an outspoken prick about it, so kudos to you for at least voicing your opinion in an intelligent fashion. As for everyone else (especially Yiffy, who I've never actually heard say "Hey, that's a good idea" about anything), can't you find something more important to riot about? Voice chat is meant to be a "that's nice" kind of thing, not an "eat our you-know-what and like it" poke in the eye.

Here's the remedy: add a simple "no sound" icon toggle that indicates you can't hear voice chat. That's all LL needs to do to complete the feature. Then people can clearly see that you can't hear them, and so they type for you.

Could someone give a quick primer on what all the game Acronyms stand for. Or am I the only one who has never played any of them?

My personal experience from the beta was that people with a non-voice beta would walk up, get told where to download the voice beta and from then on they simply didn't exist and nothing they typed would even get an acknowledgement.

There was no shortage of ridiculing people who would choose not to use voice either (in the general "when this hits the main grid" sense, not about someone who was standing right there).

Especially something thats always been available to them OUTSIDE of SL even before it was natively included in the client. You do have the option of muting voice chat either on your end or by muting the talker, you're not being forced to use it, don't force other people to not use it.

You do have the option of muting voice chat either on your end or by muting the talker, you're not being forced to use it, don't force other people to not use it.

Funny that Anti Voice people take shortcuts typing?

I hate to disagree. Those acronyms are used while speaking in the real world too.

http://www.secondtalk.com/

An easy to use voice solution is the SecondTalk skype thing. Can be worn invisible or visible it looks like a bluetooth earpeice. I have been using it since it came out and it works great. One on one phone chat or up to a group of ten.
Integrates with skype. Notifies you when someone wearing one is around and you can scan manually. Once added to your list you can call them inworld.

Kind of ironic huh lmao!!!

Some people are very upset when they find out the real person behind the AV doesn't match the AV. For them, Voice will make role play hard. There are real life guys who aren't going to pick up a girl who sounds like a 58 year old male.

Good point, what about if a person has problems talking? or have a lung or heart disorder that provents them from talking. Breathing problems? etc.......Many Many different issues taht will provent people from using voice. Why is it that everyone wants sl to be a there.com game?

Think about what you're saying, too. What about people with eyesight problems who can't really read text too well? What about dyslexics? Voice chat is a handicap-ACCESSIBLE feature for people, it's not infringing on people who can't talk (because they already have the ability to type, which for the record isn't going away).

The problem with that is, people who have voice off can't hear. Any of it. At all. Without some way for those people to communicate in text those texters of us will have no indication of their need.

Not saying that they all can't communicates somehow in text, it is an extream case, but if that's what we're looking at in this thread, then I present another.

Good point, what about if a person has problems talking? or have a lung or heart disorder that provents them from talking. Breathing problems? etc......

Many Many different issues will provent people from using voice.

That seems a needless setup - There should be a way to listen but then type back instead of voice.

Oh you can. By enabling voice and then just not using your mic.
Which IMO is stupid.

You're not even remotely listening to yourself. You complained that you can't hear people talking unless you have voice chat turned on, and the solution is to um... turn voice chat on, but somehow that solution is invalid because you think it's stupid.

This is the point where it's no longer LL's problem. What would your great solution be, then? Let you hear what people are saying if you have voice chat turned OFF (which IMO is stupid)? What the hell is the point of that? Maybe some people don't WANT to hear what others are
saying. Stop imagining up problems to a feature you don't like simply because you think the fixes are "stupid".

I'll be happy to see some types of "role play" end.

I'll explain:

I believe some role play borders upon deceit. If you see a guy in a fox avatar then that's obviously role play and I have no problems with that. Yet there are some guys who will happily use a female avatar and treat you as a character in their fantasy world. This form of "role play" is misleading and very off putting.

There is even more subtle forms of role play where a large fifty year old woman will walk around in a twenty year old skinny avatar. This always makes me laugh when I hear people say "Looks don't matter".

Second Life is proof that looks DO matter. There are very few women that dare to use a large avatar.

There was a time when I saw Second Life as a place to be creative. But these days I see it more as a place to role play. So I do understand such wide spread fear of voice.

Hmmmm..so you've taken it upon yourself to decide how people will use Second Life. How selfless......