I hope they gank the idea of the GuildBanker and accompanying GuildBankAccount addons, but refined. I like that it assigns a gold value to all donated items and you can spend your credit on other people's donated items... but apparently from the guild bank's end this is all a manual process. More automation would be great.

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With every instance at least requiring people to listen, something like this should be in the game. This was one of the coolest things about xbox live, and that was released years ago.

What Blizzard should have done on the UI front was host their own curse-gaming style site. Players could have uploaded their UI's under their account names (their preferred character name would appear on the webpage) and if it became a super popular UI mod that enhanced the game, blizz could take it, rework it a bit, reward that person with a couple months free play time and put it in the game. Everyone wins! The mod developers cause they get 'something' for their effort, blizz cause they get great, well tested ideas and code and the commnuity with a better UI.

The UI was the big reason I stuck with this game and never could go play another MMO. Being a coder, if I didn't like something I could tweak it, or find someone else who did. It was sometimes more fun than actually playing. But anyway, the workload doesn't 'need' to be that big when you have thousands doing free outsourced work.

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I just joined a new guild and they told me that Vent was required. I told them I would download it but that I was deaf and because of that, it would not have the same effect. That threw them just a bit.

I have always loved the typing aspect of the game. While I can understand the appeal to being able to talk to other gamers while they play (probably more so than you can), these features are lost on those of who play without that advantage. (I completely understand that I am in an extreme minority, and I am happy for the rest of you.)

Keep in mind when playing and requiring things like this, that you may lose a good player if you arent aware that it isnt a fit all solution.

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in game VOIP would be the bee's knees. just the other night we had an issue on a SM run due to some in the group not having Vent.

i would certainly welcome an in-game VOIP addition.

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Wow, reading Tseric's posts is quite entertaining!

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@2: The problem with Blizzard having a curse-gaming.com site is that they "could" be held liable if someone were to upload malicious code or something that interfered with the game experience as originally intended. By allowing others to play with their game through LUA, they are opening the doors as it is.

I agree though, it would be nice for them to reward some of the more innovative ideas by thanking them publicly or by awarding free time. Having thousands of people out there giving you fresh ideas shouldn't result in you stealing their IP and saying you came up with it on your own.

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It's funny, I was just talking to my friend last night about how wow is pretty crappy in the fact that after 2.5 years they haven't done anything in the way of improving the original UI. I have 20 mods now - TWENTY. Why is that necessary? Because the original sucks so hard, and has almost zero functionality or custamizability.

So, it's cool to see them working, just a bit, on this stuff. VOIP? I'm a skeptic. This means people will type less, essentially forcing you to join VOIP with them in parties. This is going to make pugs more hellish, if you ask me.

Ever get in a fight with someone in a pug? Now you're going to be able to enjoy hearing 13 year olds curse at you for something they did wrong in instances. Because they're not going to type anymore.

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No way Blizzard would ever host a curse gaming like site of mods. Can you think of the liability issues if someone managed to sneak some crap in there that crashed the game? Heavens forbid someone managed to get a virus on there. Just ain't gonna happen, Blizzard don't want that headache.

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My question is...what is that device just to the right of the monitor in the picture with the kitty? Heh heh heh.

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How many lies has Blizzard told us so far?

I wouldn't hold your breath.

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hero classes, player housing, shard bag boni, ...

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Yea cause we do not have enough lag as it is.

"We're dealing with mass-appeal items first"

They had 2 years, 2 years for any kind of shaman ui, and nothing. 2 years and I dont see a guild bank, 2 years and I don't see Voip. Where as joe nobody takes 3 hours and produces a functional totem ui in his basement.

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lol,

BONG!

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@johnnyamerika
"Because the original sucks so hard, and has almost zero functionality or custamizability."

Oh realy? The original UI supports addons to improve it, that's something the be very thankful of. The basic UI is good enough to play the game, but you can actually customize ist *all* the way to fit your desire. That's something even 2.5 years later not many games can claim.

Anyway, I realy hope this turns out true. What Tseric speaks about are things that can not be added by addons, those features need be implemented into the core.

For everything else addons are the way to go, as everyone can do as they please. The default UI can never match everyones wishes. So shut up complaining and be thankful they are realy working on improving the game since 2.5 years.

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LET ME SEE THAT BONG

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Yea, anything with the word "shaman" attached to it seems to automatically receive a priority level of "we'll get to it eventually, maybe".

Guild Banks are a lot closer than we all realize, I think. Remember that they were originally slated to be included with BC, but were pushed back.

I know it's real important that players be able to bitch at each other verbally and collect materials together in a new way, but I sure would like to be able to see if the tank is receiving Windfury or not.

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checking my add-on folder.

127 folders in there atm.

and you think 20 is a lot? chuckle.

and even so, i still use quite a bit of the original UIs functionality (the button bars, for one.)

i think tweaking the original UI is a bit overdue at this juncture and i'm glad blizz is getting around to it now. so far, some of these future changes (the AH stuff, voip, guildbanks) really sound exciting.

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Even if WoW has in-game VOIP, I'd rather use Vent or TS. When the WoW servers are down and you can't log-in, can you still chat with your guild?

If your client crashes in the middle of a pull, can you still tell your party "woops, I crashed, better run"?

If there's a separation so that you can chat with a crashed client or when the servers are down, fine. If not, I'll pass.

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@20.

I not only agree with the comment, but I firmly believe that the freedom to speak freely could be hampered with Blizzard controlling the servers. They will place a code of conduct equal, or similar, to the one currently in place.

I, for one, do not want to be policed and get banned because someone on the other end of a conversation feels offended by a comment, view and/or opinion.

Blizz VOIP, no thank you.

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