Is it just me or am I the only one who doesn't really care about this. It's a free game... We don't have to pay for the game up front, there's no monthly subscription. CCP has to make money somehow to support the game. If you don't want to shell out the less than $5 a month for voice support use skype or teamspeak or something. It's really not that big of a deal.... lol

I don't really care either. Seriously, who talks to someone when they're not in the same match? That's what the text chat is for. A lot of these people seem to be over-reacting a bit, and need to stop focusing on an unimportant issue and focus on bugs and glitches and such.

So what I got from this is your friends are a load of random morons? Cause if they are on your team in game, and not in your squad you can still talk to them during the match...hence team chat, but since it seems you and your friends are morons you can't make the ******* connection from squad to team..I gotcha.

A wild Thought appears!
...if the UVT turns out to be tradable in the market -and reasonably priced- there wouldn't be a problem here.
On the contrary, this would make it a valuable wartime commodity like radios, traveling on freighters down the major pipes...
*Homer drool* mmm... Freighter wrecks...

If you go this route CCP, try to set the AUR cost according to server prices in the major 3rd party comm providers.

Try saying this again after you try to organise a coordinated strike against multiple planets with fleet support.

Hello,

Just to clarify what UVT is supposed to enable and what you get for free:

UVT Gives you:

- Ability to voice chat in custom channels, DUST or EVE/DUST
- Ability to voice chat in corporation channels, alliance channels, ect.

UVT is NOT required for:

- Team voice chat
- Squad voice chat

Text chat is of course free everywhere.
Players can speak / listen to one channel at a time.

Keep in mind that price is still subject to change during the beta period.

Hold the phone we have to pay to talk to eve players that is kinda bogis dude I mean if we can still talk to them while we are on the battle field that is fine i guess but yeah I think that is a little to much CCP

There is no such thing as 'on the market + reasonably priced'

If UVTs are available through the market / contracts they will be sold at whatever price demand dictates.

At the moment, a 30 day UVT is worth 900 Aurum.

900 Aurum = $3.60US = 92,932,150.20 ISK

Lets say you have a mixed DUST/EVE alliance with 3 corps of 30 members, and you get wardecced by another Alliance.

81000 Aurum = $324US = 8,363,893,518.00 ISK

Your alliance has 3 options:

Pay $300+ to be able to communicate.

Pay 8 billion ISK + (likely a lot more as I don't see this market being high volume, so prices will be dictated by the sellers, subject to inflation and the whims of the market including limited availability and quantity)

Use 3rd party software (for comparisons sake: Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble servers for $40US a month for 100 slots).

UVTs cost 7.5x as much as common alternatives.

I don't really care either. Seriously, who talks to someone when they're not in the same match? That's what the text chat is for. A lot of these people seem to be over-reacting a bit, and need to stop focusing on an unimportant issue and focus on bugs and glitches and such.

I guess you don't plan on playing seriously with a corp...
Love it when people say "focus on the issues"...

Well. Here is the issue. Right in this thread.

I guess you don't plan on playing seriously with a corp...
Love it when people say "focus on the issues"...

Well. Here is the issue. Right in this thread.

...Which is why i suggested that they Change The Cost to at least match competitors, if not undercut them, in the last line.
That doesn't mean I don't agree. EDIT : Even though your math doesn't include EVE players that don't have to pay extra, such costs could present a problem for smaller alliances
If the AUR price stays the same or increases, i will jump off the fence into your side of the story.

I'm already in a corp called FoxHound dude. I was just stating my opinion.

Do your corp know that you don't care because its free? Because I wouldn't hire you.

[*pyramid*]

No, I just don't think it's a game-breaking issue, that's all.

Hello,

Just to clarify what UVT is supposed to enable and what you get for free:

UVT Gives you:

- Ability to voice chat in custom channels, DUST or EVE/DUST
- Ability to voice chat in corporation channels, alliance channels, ect.

UVT is NOT required for:

- Team voice chat
- Squad voice chat

Text chat is of course free everywhere.
Players can speak / listen to one channel at a time.

Keep in mind that price is still subject to change during the beta period.

@ DEV Frame.

Sorry this is an excuse and a weak one at that.

Team chat........... Who cares, most of the time I don't want to talk to a load of random morons, or have to figure out how many I have to mute every game.

Squad chat........... Wow that huge 4man squad, well I have more than 3 friends and clan mates that I would like to group and play with. Even if we pay for this rip off chat so we can all talk we can't get in the same game let alone be on the same team.

I think instead of having an in house joke with MAG uniforms you have more important game breaking problems to worry about.

Mofo? Guess it takes one to know one.

No, in EVE it is never paranoia, because history have shown that they ARE really after you.

alright, well, my main draw for playing DUST was to chat with friends AND play a game. i don't see why you would want to charge for something every other console game gives for free. I understand your desire for funds, but this is not where to get them.

I mean, who is going to only want voice chat for a day? or 30 days for that matter? this is just a cheap, sleazy way to charge a (albeit small) monthly fee, and that is rather silly.

Honestly, I think I'll pass. not really worth the money. ever since WoW I have a thing against monthly fees. The only reason I played EVE for as long as I did was because I didn't have to pay for it every month.

Certainly one could argue "you don't HAVE to pay to play", but I would argue, with as many friends as I have, why WOULDN'T you want to talk to them?

besides, I suppose I could just use Teamspeak, and not play DUST.

Either way, I didn't support Microsoft because they come off as greedy, charging for online play and voice chat.

I refuse to support a company that sees greed as necessary for profit.

if you want to charge a monthly fee, charge a monthly fee, don't make the "game" free, then microtransaction the hell out of us.

Seriously though, if you just make universal voice comms free, and charged more for other things, I would be fine with that.

Voice comms, particularly alliance/corp UVC need to be free IMO.

Reminding again: there is completely FREE Team and Squad voice chat, completely FREE text chat for all channels, completely FREE in-game mail for all users - everything other console shooters have and more, for FREE... And, yes, of course, we are looking into additional options, offers, features, etc for UVT's.