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every once in a while ill log onto vent and a wow buddy of mine will finally get a mic. ill hear his/her voice and go, "didnt see that comin o.o"

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Oh yeah, I remember that time the Ventrilo Info was spammed.

I'm usually the one providing surprises.

I'm from Madrid, Spain so as soon as I start talking, almost everyone asks ''Dude, where are you from? Mexico?''

So yeah, Ventrilo is pretty cool. Makes the gaming experience more enjoyable.

I Pugged Malygos at 1am the other night. I was a bit surprised to hear that my Raid was comprised of 4 women and a handful of Australians.

They were surprised that anyone playing a toon named Twinklëtoes was a man. =/

first time i was ever in vent, aparently my voice sounded like a 7yearold, mind you that was 2years ago. but now aparently i sound like a 40year old man with an extreemly deep voice O.o

Osku (shu'halo) 80 dwarf warrior

You should have said to the person asking:

Why do you want to know my age? If i were a guy you wouldnt care, why does my being female make a difference?

the first time i went on a guild raid back in the days of kara my guild asked me to go on vent. i did and immediatly after saying helling i got bombarded by my guildies asking me if i was a geardie (im frm england as you may have guess by the geardie remark)
i told i was frm near newcastle and since then i was kind of made a guild beating pole wen it came to accents and the areas they live in

You know when you listen to a radio station for a long time and then come across a photo of the DJ, host, or announcer and they're nothing like you pictured?

Same for WoW. People's voices don't sound like you expect.

When you meet them at BlizzCon, they don't look like you expect either.

It's not a bad thing and I'm not saying people sound bad or look bad...just different.

I occasionally get dragged onto Vent, but I avoid it if I can.

Transgender voices throw me off a little, but what REALLY gets me is the chit-chat that can go one during gameplay.

Two people having a conversation totally unrelated to anything going on, especially when it's a subject matter you have no interest in, can get annoying. Or people talking over each other, so you can't understand ANYone.

Keeping it in Chat just simplifies things for me...

Hi Pixiestixy!

I was on when the vent info was spammed in guild chat. And yeah most of the people don't sound like I imagine them sounding. I don't know what I was expecting really but it happens. Southern twang in Virginia? You must be further south of me. I'm up in NOVA.

once i was in a Nax raid and this Female Gnome lock was asking me for the Focus Magic buff and typed like a girl and winked, but when i went on vent it was a black dude with a REALLY deep voice

I'd imagine that at least some adults might change what they're talking about if someone told them they were 11. This is not a save the childrens!!11 rant, but yeah... I tend to think everyone is my age and at the very least some jokes don't go over well if I'm reminiscing about hammer pants and double tongue Reeboks with people who weren't around then. And I'm all about the funny.

I remember, 1st time I raided, I was with the best tank I've ever seen. He had all the gear, knew all the strats, and generally was an expert player. When I heard him in vent, turned out to be some 10 year old. Go figure.

In an unrelated note, PL should have a fan vent server available to people who are too active on mains to spend much time on the fan-guild toon.

I remember pugging 10 man naxx a few weeks back, our tauren druid tank had a scrawny (not high pitched just, edged) and our pally tank has this deep voice and i always assumed the guy with the deep voice was the tauren, until they said their char name...

It was a rather strange experience for me when I first used Ventrilo. Sure, some of the voices were different than what I could've reasonably expected. But what really got me was the fact that I was actually hearing other people. It sure adds another aspect to WoW.

In my guild there's a dranei shammy that is amazing at dps and an excellent healer. The first time I heard him speak I was shocked... he sounded like he was 12. I know what you mean.

I remember years ago hopping on Socom for the first time to hear nothing but foul mouthed 12-14 year olds. Gave up the idea of voice chatting on video games for awhile.

Tried a few years later with a linkshell on FFXI to a much better experience. Now I prefer it, but have friends that tend to be too lazy to get mics.

Also, I agree with @Zang

Virginia? Southern? Where do you live? Granted, I too am in NOVA, but Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc would have been better choices. I lived in MS for 11 years, and am now in NOVA and so far have not heard anything close to what the real south accents are like.

Ventrilo/TeamSpeak/skype or whatever you use makes instance grinding so much easier imo. You can joke around with your guildies and just chat about stuff. All in all much better game experience!

Abut strange voices I was in grp with a DK from my guild when he asked me to come on vent with him and some others, i joined and the Undead DK with full tier 7,5 gear armageddon and 3.2k DPS sounds like a girl(which was not funny until he finally convinced me he was a boy lol)!

-Pitchpine

Did you just say I have a high pitched voice? I am slightly offended :D

When i first heard my Gm speak in vent, I though he was a chick, and needless to say I got the demote in guild rank joke played on me for making fun of him

Back during my novice years of Kara, I would very rarely talk. I prefered talking via chat, so I could listen in, get used to everyone's attitudes/personalities, and such. So when I started to talk, everyone was flipping surprised at my voice. I typed as if I was an educated English man from Harvard, but my voice (and I'll proudly admit) was higher pitched and didn't carry the "drawl of the S's" they expected.

Same goes for me for another raider-friend. She typed ... half text and half serious (i.e. "I'll see you l8er! Don't forget to look up what I told u about!"), but would correct you if you pronounced a word wrong (i.e. You SAY "Lose-iana" instead of "Loo-isiana"). We still joke around by saying words wrong to see if she tries to correct us

Just a few nights ago I was listening to someone I swore was 26ish, found out she was 13 or something like that...I was shocked.

@carlos, @barugaara I intentionally left names out of my post, so you guys called yourselves out on this one :). It wasn't an insult, just an observation :P

@zang, @icedtrip I'm in Lynchburg. It's not so much a twang as it is a drawl, I'd say. Like "about" is pronounced more like "aboot." But I do hear some southern accent here, too. It's a pretty rural area, not like NOVA :)

Lol, I was on vent for the first few minutes of you talking I believe,
I logged because I was tired, but anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you dont sound too much like a child, but I wouldn't say you sound 26, as for the guild, lets just say we dont have many girls. @_@

hey! im from Virginia. and yes we do have an odd accent. i dont use Vent or teamspeak. i just use the built in bliz system, granted its not as nice as the others,but in all honesty...i have no idea where to go to DL either one! lol. so i just make due with what i got

haha yea recently i got into a new guild and just talked to people over typing and never really thought much of a voice for people then i got into a ventrillo server for a guild run and over half the people in the guild run have a very heavy boston accent at first i was alittle stunned by it because i live and texas so that boston accent is something i never really hear and it really makes you realize that yes this game is played by people everwhere in the world.