Alex Babchenko gamer with more than 10 years of team play experience about voice chat

I played in many teams from 5 to 300 people under my command. Now I play DotA 2 most of the time and for a long time I have played Lineage 2, WoW, TERA, Archage, AION and World of Tanks.

- Can voice chat solve organizational problems during the game?

Yes, it can. It is much faster to explain by the voice than to type. Actually no one plays without voice chats now.

- Do you advise to use voice chats? Why?

Yes, I advise anyone who plays in team to use chats. You can not quickly coordinate actions without a voice communication.


- What problems can arise when you create a team and during the game?

There may be constant conflicts over particular gameplay stuff, I mean game valuable this, loot etc.


- What is the difference between problems in the organization of newcomers compared with passionate gamers or even professionals? If they are, how they are different?

Yes, they are different. Usually players with experience have no problems with the organization in general.

- Have you meet something special when you played in small teams? What is so special about them in organization? What are the pros and cons?

It is more comfortable to play in small teams, but not all games give you such possibility. Sometimes a team consists of 1,000 people or more, and so you can do nothing without a voice chat.

The dominance of free-to-play games becomes more and more obvious

Games rapidly increase their profitability, significantly outperforming all other industries.

During 10 months of 2014 well known game League of Legends earned more than $946 million, and thus entered the top 10 most profitable games and became the most profitable Multiplayer online pc game..

In total, such projects have earned $7.9 billion this year. LoL managed to overtake even the shooter Crossfire, which received $50 million less. Many people have already forgotten World of Warcraft due to the rapid exodus of users but it's still a great product of Blizzard, so this year WoW pulled its position from the seventh to the fourth line of rating and increased revenues from $218 million to $728 million.

Also Dota 2 shows growth in the rankings, this game was in ninth place, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft closed the top ten, ahead of The Elder Scrolls Online (earnings about $ 111 million) and Star Wars: The Old Republic (earnings $ 106 million).

It becomes obvious that free-to-play games becomes the most popular. Number of players and profits are soaring all around the world. During this year only in the United States on micropayments were spent $1.4 billion in Asia - $3 billion.

Games market does not lose its position, even despite on the crisis, the fall of national currencies and other terrible things. This means that more and more people need inside and outside game communication. And if earlier common chats were used to do this, now you cannot play without specially developed for multiplayer games voice chat. Group voice chat have become an integral part of the gameplay.

MyTeamVoice understand this perfectly, because we ourselves are passionate gamers. Therefore we produced the voice chat with minimal impact on the games, but with the highest quality of communication and necessary functionality for both small and huge teams up to 100 and 200 people.

Do not limit yourself to the old useless chats - try new ones!

Play Dota 2 instead of lessons. It's easy in China

One of the China’s colleges in, in the region of Chongqing, introduced to students a course of the Dota 2. According to teachers of this college, students will learn to analyze and improve an extraordinary thinking with the help of this popular game.

This approach is quite interesting, because these team games is always more than just a time killer game or simple entertainment. You need to learn how to play, and communicate with your team, you have to analyze the situation and calculate movements on a few steps ahead, and not only for your own team, but in addition enemy ones. You must do whatever it takes to bring a victory to the own team, because Dota 2 is a competitive online game.

Lectures will devote not only practice, but also the theory, for example, analysis of team strategies, expecting that it will teach students to think “outside the box”, not only in games.


The teachers who organized this program, also say that this course is optional, it is only a trial for 90 students, and at the end of the year, the college administration will hold selective testing of students to evaluate the effectiveness of training and to check whether the results stated objectives.

We remind that Dota 2 is an implementation of well-known map "Defend of the Ancient" from Warcraft 3 game (released in 2002).

By the way, thanks to Dota 2 the genre MOBA gained more and more popularity in recent years. MOBA is multiplayer online game in which competing teams of five players try to destroy the enemy base.

This and similar to it games also make professional group voice chats required and popular, through them the gameplay has become more interesting, dynamic and enjoyable!

Do not forget that the Voice Chat will not only help to put together a team, discuss strategy and details of the future of the game, but also to respond quickly and prevent the enemy steps.

How computer games contribute to economic development?

The United States is a great example how games positively impact to the economy, where the growth in the gaming industry is four times higher than the growth of the national economy, ie the game economy is not growing it is rapidly flies up.

These economic indicators were noted during the study, which was conducted by the Association game companies ESA (Entertainment Software Association). From 2009 to 2013 the annual growth of the gaming market was 9.7%, while US growth just for 2.4%.

ESA experts believe that game industry of United States in 2013 directly provided more than 42 thousand jobs, about 80% of them are accounted for seven states: California, Texas, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Florida and Illinois. The median income for a person who is "busy" in the industry amounted to almost 95 thousand dollars a year (excluding taxes).

So the games are not just cool and fun, but they give a real benefit to the economy of the country! And of course this growth influences whole gaming industry from games themselves to related businesses which provide gamers with everything they need (computers, consoles, peripherals, etc.). And if you remember that thousands game developers who spend their money every day, you can imagine how they support other parts of the economy.

How can we stand apart and not support games industry, which is such a useful thing in all aspects. Multiplayer and cooperative games have become a main engine of modern game industry, the players need constantly communicate while playing. The MyTeamVoice will help them to organize their communication basing on the principles of modern special forces.

The MyTeamVoice servers are waiting for you!

Does century of consoles coming into oblivion. Will PC outlast them all?

One of the directors of the NVIDIA corporation which is one of the largest developers of graphics processors Jen-Hsun Huang stated that consoles passed the peak of their popularity and in the near future the other devices will rule in the game world such as ... PCs!

“PCs is the largest world's gaming platform because people have them all over the world, including the China and other developing countries. Computers can be updated once a year, without significant changes in the whole computer. It is much cheaper than purchasing new models of consoles (if they were updating each year, but they don’t), and the total cost of ownership of a gaming PC is attractive enough, "- says NVIDIA’s CEO.

In his opinion, today there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy the games without consoles, for example smartphones or tablets have amazing 3D games. In addition there are lots of gadgets developmenting for the virtual reality gaming, such as helmets, goggles, gloves with tactile features, Kinect motion capture systems devices etc. All of these are connected to a powerful gaming PC. But every year the components become cheaper. Today it is almost impossible to imagine a PC without webcam and microphone / headphones and good audio system and it will pass not so much time when owning all of today's new-fangled gadgets for PC will become the normal.

Every gamer knows that playing without all these peripheral stuff today simply does not make sense. Because you need action, drive, communication and team play in virtual reality and all in a real-time!

And if you want to get the most from the modern team games and good media system then you need an advanced voice chat as MyTeamVoice is. It is designed to make your time in PC multiplayer games more pleasant, successful and fun! Your vivid emotions will find appreciative listeners from among your team, and they will not interfere the game. Installing and configuring the chat will take only a few minutes!

Now you know - your PC is the most advanced gaming device yet. Have fun!

In which games play stars?

For many people the virtual world has become a significant part of their life without which it is sometimes difficult to imagine an evening or weekends. And even well-known actors and singers are not the exception, they also love World of Warcraft, GTA and Battlefield and now you will know who prefers what.

In the near future PC games will be used in scientific research

A curious fact was discovered not so long ago. Almost any kind of computer games can provide substantial support to science.

There are ideas about the development of online laboratories, in which the information obtained as a result of tests and studies can be evaluated by usual gamers. Probably it will help to avoid a lot of errors and frauds of the results in scientific experiments.

By the way as a support of this original theory some biologists give as an example an online laboratory which they have created for the study of the RNA. More than 150 volunteers. were involved in their experiment and they eventually spent about 2 million hours on this work. Each preliminary result of a scientific experiment was in focus of hundreds eyes pairs of doctors and researchers. Everything was done completely openly and with no attempt to hide something.

This form of research puts scientists in the rigid frames and does not give them an opportunity to correct and adjust the results, because we all know that professionals are always tempted to bring only that data they are comfortable in the end result. And experts believe that those situations can be excluded due to computer games.

Many outstanding discoveries were made in close communication between scientists and researchers. When the researches move to online games, everyone would be forced to use voice communication. In this case voice chats, which are specially designed for a group voice communication over the network could seriously help in future research negotiations. Hope our voice chat would take part in such creative process.

How computer games can help in teaching

Could anyone 5 years ago imagine that you can learn while playing? Today many parents and just adult still think that video games are only a waste of time but in reality it is not so.

Games for business. Who could imagine? Not too long ago big corporations began to developing computer games for business which can evaluate the effectiveness of solutions and shape the future of a fictional company based on taken decisions. This games are so thought over, that the CEO may draw conclusions: can the player lead the company to a financial collapse or a to a brighter future. All the result depends on the executive and it is player. Probably very soon even the interviews will take place at a computer desk with usage of some game simulators!

Now you also can pass tests on a perfect score just by playing on PC! Isn't it the best dream for any student? As addition to training programs and retain of the material it's guaranteed quicken the learning process for any specialization because PC games can help to learn the course material better than theory lessons. Today these game-programs are used in a number of economic institutions and many student competitions and Olympiads were conducted on their basis.

In addition almost every MMO game can help to improve level of English or another foreign language. The players often text to each other and communicate in English, may be not always in a correct form but it is still English. And who have said that it is bad to know the dialect words and abbreviations? In English-speaking countries it will definitely help people a lot. Well if you have desire to learn any other language there are a bunch of games, which are aimed directly at foreign language. These games helps you easily to remember words, expressions, as well as take tests and it is better than waste your time in social networks surfing other people photos, so just try it!

And there are games that will help you to improve the knowledge of a geography and a history. For example a variety of online games will test your knowledge of geography, where you have a point on the map and you have to guess the country or the flag or you have the country and you must remember the capital, or you have the famous attractions and you should choose the city in which they are located. Also there are games for grown ups, where history and geography will help you to win. For example, strategic games which repeat a particular period of the history where player’s freedom of actions are limited in order to preserve the historical authenticity. So they can be called an interactive tutorial of the history.

The games will help you easier to converge and establish communication with complete strangers. Simplicity and naturalness communications makes people more human, removes complexes and other communication problems. We in MyTeamVoice invite you all to communicate more freely and by natural voice!

Gamer with 7 years experience about voicechat

Artem Storozhenko Gamer with 7 years experience
"Steel Shield" Guild

- What problems can you face with when you try to gather a team before the game?First problem can be a time which you spend to gather people. It can take much time because most of the people have already joined other guilds, have their own team. Another problem is the human factor. A person can be good in ordinary life, but weak as a player, and vice versa. A future team leader, must estimate the potential of each teammate (as a person and as a player) and understand next - Does your team need such person? Or is it better to leave him in reserve or even not to consider him as a candidate.

- What is necessary to start organizing a team before the game?
Primarily organization begins from a discipline, a raid time should be strictly regulated and latecomer player risks being replaced by another guild members who comes in time. Also there should be a raid leader, a man who knows all about the game, tactics against the bosses and so on, and whose commands everyone should listen as they listen to their own fathers :)

- Can a voice chat solve the problems of the organization? How exactly the voice Chat helped to your team?
Voice chat have to solve them. All misunderstanding, potential conflicts, and so on should be immediately delivered to voice chat to discuss them or if it is personal issues, which, however, can affect the game progress, it should be discussed in the presence of a raid leader who in case of inability to solve problem will at least try to postpone the discussion for another time.

Voice Chat in any form helps to speed up a coordination of actions of the players. It is certainly better than the usual text chat and better than streaming video conferences as Skype. It mentally prepares the players to be more serious and has more responsibility. We notice a lot of progress, when we switched from Skype to Raid Call.

- Will you advise using voice chats? Why?Not always. It is necessary for a cohesive team work. But do not forget that not all players want to seriously play hard every night, sometimes you just want to have fun communicating with nice people. Of course Skype is more appropriate here. One of a Voice chat features is that you should often press a key to say something. Therefore people will not tell something in general, but try to express their opinions clearly when the key is pressed. Such clear communication is needed when your team is faced with serious problem.

- Are there any difference of organizing novices, avid players or even professionals?
For me the main difference between the novices and pro players is the fact that pro players spent a lot of time with the team, they have a team spirit, they feel each other, and the beginners are just starting to adapt to one another. In terms of organization, for beginners all depends not on the gaming experience but on his personality, such as discipline, responsibility, ability to recognize their mistakes and work to eliminate them, understand that only captain of the team can talk about mistakes of other players or whole team.

- What do you think about organizing big and small team?
Ideally, for several reasons, you will spend nearly the same time to create good big or small team. For comparison let's take two commands of 10 and 25. First of all - responsibility. The smaller amount of players in the team, brings to player bigger responsibility. Therefore when you try to create a small team, it will be the most difficult to select the right people, with the right role and required qualities. In the case of 25 people you may care less about people. However you need much time just to collect players in a team at least in some initial form.

The second important thing - is the replacements. Replacements is constant thing for large teams. Very rarely you can collect all 25 people in one time because we all humans. Therefore players for the replacements always must be present, ready at any moment to go out and show their skills (who knows, maybe they will get place in the main squad). In the case of a small team you seriously risk when you make replacements. The risk to waste a lot of time just because new player can make some mistakes in terms of teamwork, and there is no time for training or preparation.

Five the most wanted video games of the Fall 2014

In the next three months the world will see several premieres of cult game series such as Call of Duty, Assassins’ Creed, Halo, Far Cry, Dragon Age.

So let’s go on through this list.
Already in the beginning of November (planed on November 4th) one of the most popular action Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be released. This game was coming out in the new releases dozen times. And as always the developers promise that this version will be the best.
Briefly about the release: the action takes place in 2054, the hero again have to save the world after the disaster. By the way the head of the military organization of PMC, in which the main character takes part, is voiced by Kevin Spacey. The DLC will be released for the Xbox first. Developers promises to release the game on a new engine. In addition, in the CoD game player will have an exoskeleton that he can upgrade during the game, also drones and energy weapons and more what we expect to have in future.

Less than a week on November 13th World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor will be released. Blizzard will release a new addon to the global MMORPG. With this version you can forget about the meme about "level 80 elf " because now fans of the series will be able to level the hero up to 100 levels. The most epic of know-how will be the following: the ability to make garrisons, build buildings, collect resources, sending the group in raids.

On the same day Assassin's Creed: Unity also will be released. Action takes place in Paris in 1789. Now the protagonist Arno can take part in all the iconic events from taking the Bastille to the execution of Louis XVI. Developers also promises to run this game on a new engine Anvil, which they call a long awaited “next gen”. The gamers will get new assassins-parkour, updated combat system, more weapons, improved stealth action, and this is just a beginning of the list.

November 20th, a week after release of two previous games Far Cry 4 will be released. This is really expected release from Ubisoft. The player will play in Key Rate - completely fictional Himalayan region. There he would be sent for fulfilling a wish of his dying mother's but here he will stuck in a civil war. Far Cry 4 will be available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and of course on the PC. Players who pre-order the game can get an extended edition with DLC.

On the next day, November 21h you can expect for Dragon Age: Inquisition. This is popular series of the RPG-games in the dark fantasy style from Electronic Arts and BioWare. Developers promise that it will have more success than Dragon Age 2. About the story: the kingdom of Ferelden lives an ordinary life: intrigue, spies, war, insurrection, the negotiations, the Inquisition. Worth recalling that the choice of the player often affects the end of the game - save and reload will help you. And in Dragon Age 3 full control of your squad combat tactics will be returned, also in the plot will be favorite friend of party the harmful witch Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins.

There Is no need to say how and with whom you should play these games! We want only emphasize that multiplayer games gets greater success and popularity in the world of games, communication in them has become a large part of intrigue and success. We are also looking forward for new updates, new features and even more exciting game communication!

MyTeamVoice advised to use only special Voice chat for games, they are much better for the team communication and are less susceptible to external factors (drops of the network, unstable bandwidth, inexperienced players ;) and so on), which often break your play and communication. All of this and much more which will not disturb you and helps to enjoy the new games!

PC games can cure depression and stress

The tendency to blame computer games in all problems of children is declining. Until recently there was a hard myth that the games are useless and only ruin the children's lives and their parents. But scientists from New Zealand from the British Medical Journal have refuted this. They published data that says that games can help teens get rid of depressed mood and protect against stress.

On the example of a game Sparx, where you can create own character and get the complete freedom of action in the virtual world, it is shown that the games give a sense of freedom for the young people because their daily life is scheduled by the school and the family. In the game worlds gamers solve problems, puzzles and this according to the researchers is the same method of cognitive therapy in psychology - when with help of a character young people can express their emotions.

Scientific experiment lasted for seven weeks and during that time scientists have observed the players whose characters expressed negative facial expressions from resentment to anger. Eventually it was discovered that thanks to playing adolescents showed decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety. At the same time there was a group of guys who were "treated" by conventional psychologists and comparative results shocked many! In the group where was playing games 44% of adolescents showed a complete recovery, and in the group with psychologists - only 26%, and of course those who were treated with help of games were delighted to be in such experiment!

By the way the Sparx game is role play game, so players are able to communicate with each other which means that in addition to getting rid of depression have a great opportunity to interact with other children, socialize and make new friends, that in our time for many children in real life is not so simple. Give more communication and freedom to people, it is so necessary for all of us!

And when it comes to voice communication - try MyTeamVoice, it will make voice communication in games even more realistic and attractive!

How games affect on children's behaviour?

In the recent time increased reports about children aggression toward their peers, teachers, parents and surrounding people. Some thoughtful people immediately rush to blame the computer games, a subject that they don’t understand unough.

This question bother a lot of people but finally American scientists investigate this problem and they dot all the i's and cross all the t's.

According to the group of researchers from the University of California at San Francisco, games do not affect a behavior of teenagers, that means that the game can’t be a stumbling block between children and parents as well as the cause of emotional outburst towards to parents or to peers.

An article was published by scientists in the scientific journal Pediatrics. Conclusions was made after the long investigation which involved more than 5,000 children between the ages of 10 to 15 years. Scientists have made two groups which consisted of those who played computer games and who haven’t played.

During the experiment the researchers found that computer games do not make a strong impact on children's behavior.

There was only one "but" - if compare two main groups you can see that little gamers are less sociable than others.

Now games “live” in the Internet!

A game industry during the last few years moved to the Internet almost completely.

Gaming portals have become so popular because they are highly available, you mostly do not have to pay for games and additionally you have enormous variety of games so everyone can find something for his "own" taste.

Almost all developed game projects are already oriented on multiplayer mode, where players have an opportunity to communicate, share opinions, experiences and expertise. For many gamers the gaming world can replace even social networks.

By the way, among other things online games have many side advantages, among which are developing sense of purpose, memory, ability to concentrate, mental flexibility in extreme situations, the ability to analyze the situation and own actions.

By the way, all listed above is useful for not only children and youth)

Haven’t you tried to use voice chat in the games yet? You have lost a lot. Join the club "fans of talks!" Make your way in the direction of better communication and more exciting games.

You can easily make $ 2 million in Dota2

You still don’t believe that it is possible to make millions just by playing the game? Then this article will dispel your doubts.

Such sum was earned by two Ukrainian gamers in two years. Dendi and XBOCT, both of them play in the team Na'Vі. In a real life this heroes are known as Danil Ishutin from Lviv and Alexandr Dashkevich from Crimea, each of them earn more than half a million dollars in a year. With this result they entered the top ten richest gamers of Dota2 in the world since 2012.

The first five places in the ranking were taken by the Chinese team NewBee, which in this year won the TI4 Dota2 and Ukrainian team Na'Vi, unfortunately wasn’t able to reach the Final.

So there is a great chance to start earning money right from home while playing your favorite computer game.

By the way, recently become popular and profitable to male video blogs: share video of your games, make comments, collages, video cutting and etc. The public is always interesting to hear the comments of players, their conversations and thoughts.

In our opinion, the most interesting are those games where you can hear not only comments but also live communication of the team in voice chat. In this way it is possible for you to adopt successful tactics and strategies for your own team. Also communication between friends makes playing process much more interesting and fun!

MyTeamVoice recommends ;)

Based on: http://ain.ua/2014/07/23/533908

Who "lives" in the world of MMORPG games?

The number of people which massively plays multiplayer online games excedes millions over the world. Only World of Warcraft has over 7 million online players and its creators earned in 2013 more than a billion dollars.

But we want to tell you about something else, about who is playing MMORPG, if you still think it's "nerds" and losers, you will be surprised to know that in fact it is not so.

In the real world only 10% from gamers are unsociable and have no interest in anything, among them 4% are schoolchildren and all others are mostly students.

Most those who play multiplayer online games are people for whom games is a hobby and as a rule it is not only one in their life. Almost always these people are addicted to other interesting things and most often: books, movies, art, sports. Over a half of all players are over 23 years old. 90% of gamers in the world are men and almost half of them have a relationships or they are married, by the way, among girls more than 2/3 consist in a relationship.

So why for many peoples gamers are "nerd"? Simply, even this small 10% of people online are very common, because each 10th gamer will be a nerd and you can easily meet him in online games. Also, you can often find aggressive emotional schoolchildren in chats and if the team include 5 people it means that every second game may have such gamer. And a few morons can leave an indelible mark on every gamer.

Based on materials:http://habrahabr.ru/post/84778/

MyTeamVoice offers to go ahead and move from text communications to voice communication. Is it possible to express fillings by the text messages which you regularly do by voice? In addition the process of printing is long and tedious. It is much more convenient to talk , develop team skills or just spend an hour or two in your favorite game with several friends by using Voice chat!

Begin using a voice chat right now!

Interview with Brother in arms guild

Dmitry is one of the "Brother in arms" members, he talked to MyTeamVoice and expressed his opinion about the voice chats.

The whole team comes from Irkutsk, Russia. They all use voice chats and can't imagine games without it. Guys use it to communicate before the game, during it and after. Besides DayZ guild also plays the Counter Strike and the Rust. The basis of team has 7 people.

What is the main purpose of using a chat?
- Voice chat helps to each player from our guild, we constantly communicate by using it, we can start discussing the tactics of the game and make some conclusions about it. Yes, and in general, when friends are in voice chat, it's cool.

What difficulties can arise when you using Voice chat?
- You have minimal risk to meet any problem with using a voice chat. Problems more often come when you looking for new players, we need experienced and adequate guys with good sense of humor. By the way voice chat communication allows you to spend less time before you understand 'who is who'.

How Voice Chat helps to your team?
- It helps us constantly, we do not waste our time, we do not waiting for team response, everything happens right now, you can speak here in this moment, when you need it, you can don't lose seconds for typing. Fast reaction yielding results, everyone can hear in the second, where the enemy and start acting. Our guild started using voice chats from our beginning. For the guys communication is an integral part of any game.

#dayz #player #gamer #mmogame

Modern computer games expand the circle of friends

On the example of Watch Dogs and Battlefield 4 games developers offers new opportunities for the players. In the opinion of Dominic Guay, an employee from the French company Ubisoft, which created the Watch Dogs game, players are looking for the bigger independence for themselves, communication and ability to interact with other players. Old-fashioned "Action Games" recede into the background, they are pushed by team games.

"All social interactions, which are now being implemented to the Internet are becoming available in the games. Earlier we could play between each other. Now our desire to share and communicate had been increased"- says Martin Lorber from Electronic Arts.

Almost a decade computer games were considered as a source of aggression and violence but today they helps to develop a team spirit, to learn help each other and to communicate more.
"In the future, games will be more focused on the person. They will be adapted to the tastes and moods "- adds Guay.

This year on games exhibition Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, was shown that gamers given their preference for games with communication, and it concerns almost all types of games from shooters to strategy.

Now in the world of computer games everything revolves around the team goals and they can be achieved faster when players helps each other, warns about the danger and constantly cooperate between the characters, and accordingly a friendship between human beings can be born and often it develops from the virtual to the real.

By the way, the latest version of the Battlefield-4 relies on intensive communication, the development of the game depends on how you hear the command and execute the command.

The Swedish developer and author of the legendary Battlefield Lars Gustavsson says: "Social interaction is one of the most important elements for us". «Battlefield encourages interoperability and cooperation. Normal mode, which is attended by many players who stand against each other, already "has outlived itself".

MyTeamVoice as a representative of professional voice chats adds that the introduction of the possibility of close cooperation between the players is it's just the beginning, the quality of communication and organization of the team will play a bigger role.

The Speed of reaction of individual players has almost reached its peak and players can get significant advantage over the opposing team only by introduction of new tactics and strategies that can not be achieved without a professionally organized communication inside of the team!

Play and make millions!

Games already have outgrown children's entertainment, now they became very profitable industry both for those who produce games, and for those who play them. Many games have become a real sport with many millions in audience and high-paying gamers.

Some players even do not participate in game competitions but they can make more than one million dollars a year. For example 25 year old Swedish gamer just by playing his favorite games and then sharing them on the YouTube channel gets more than 4 million per year!

Felix Chelberg also known as a PewDiePie, started his video blog in the university, but at first he didn’t have popularity. But over the time his videos began to appear in a variety of tops lists. For example, his movie won first place in the "Top of the most scary moments in games" and scored more than one million views.

Today Swedish gamer has more than 28 million subscribers and earns on his hobby more than 4 million dollars in year!

Gamer admits that he likes to have such big influence, but sometimes it makes him to feel a little bit scary. The main goal of 25 year old guy is not just have fun while playing but playing game in such way that it will be funny to watch!

So it's time to forget about the wasting of time for games and getting nothing from it! Gaming can become even your favorite work.

MyTeamVoice wants to add from itself that the quality and staginess of game can significantly be increased by using voice chats for communication within the team, as well as with your audience.
Have fun!

Computer games are primarily communication tool rather than a psychological dependence.

Such results were showed by Leipzig University studies. It turns out that for most gamers games are important means of communication, and computer games in general are one of the favorite pastimes of youth.

By the way the first game for the PC appeared over 50 years ago and it was a game called a Pong - "Tennis for Two", you should have two people to play it so it already was a team game.

Today you can choose from unrealistically large amount of games and everyone will find something appropriate. The most people choose games with multiplayer – it’s about 80% of players. These figures also were shown by studies of European university.

Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they simultaneously in virtual reality can take part to several thousand players. By the way, often on the basis of a network game arise groups and guilds, whose members meet regularly in network and play together. The World of Warcraft is one of the most popular games today, over 10 million people from different places of world play it. From other side hundreds of artists, musicians and other creative professionals are financed by this game.

The psychological dependence appears in no more than 10% of persons who uses internet and online games and as a rule it happens in school age, but almost 80% of users regularly meets with friends in multiplayer games, and 48 percent give birth to new acquaintances while they are "online".

So today computer games are an excellent tool for communication. And it is dialogue on interests, which is much more important for the amusement and personal development than a strained conversation with people who are boring for you.

From ourself the MyTeamVoice team wants to add that you can achieve a greater return from communication in games in case you are using group voice chats. For professional players, this has become an integral part of the game, so why amateurs cannot use professional group communication?

Learn more at MyTeamVoice.com

Some interesting things about gamers

Gamers are not only "nerds" who are spending hours and sometimes even days on playing computer games, in fact they positively stand out from ordinary people.

Here are several positive facts about them:
After “Roper Report Worldwide” conducted studies, they proved that gamers are much more seriously treat their life than ordinary people. Also they are more confident in their financial future (70% ‘gamers’ vs. 59% ‘not gamers’), the players are more interested in such issues as global warming (18% vs. 14%), as the quality of education (27% vs. 22%), as the problem of housing (15% vs. 14 %) and poverty in developing countries (9% vs. 7%).

And under the concept of "the good life" gamers mean such things as interesting work, the ability to control their life, presence of free time, traveling, university education, expensive car, presence of electronic novelties in their house. All listed above is a priority for the majority of gamers.

In addition they spend a minimum of time for such things as cleaning and cooking food, but they more often listen to music (87% versus 71%), read magazines (46% vs. 39%) and are involved in sport (42% vs. 33%).

Also more than a half of gamers are tend to buy only products from trusted manufacturers and always looking for new items, but not only in the techy, they don't forget about other things. So among gamers an amount of technophiles is two times bigger than between non-gamers, they equip their house with different know-how and new products and they are on the top among those people who are using mobile devices as maximum as possible - send more SMS and MMS-messages, listen to music, radio, films and using the Internet.

Summing up, we can sure say, that gamers have no easy look at life, as many people can think. They are interested in issues important to whole humanity problems. They are developed in most social subjects and their brain works at least 10% faster comparing with an average person.

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Technical specifications for voice chat

Technical specifications of voice chats are not so simple and straightforward as it might seem at first glance. They go much further from the usual minimum / recommended requirements for the PC.

All audio chats without an exception will show you quite modest requirements and it can be difficult for you to suspect that in the future they can significantly affect system’s performance and more importantly the game itself.

You should pay an attention to the developer statements regarding the use of Internet connection depending on the number of players. If the developers say nothing, you may try to find reviews from their users. There are quite a lot of chats that are not optimized for communication of large groups of people, they will radically change their behavior and whole system load only because of the fact that a dozen or more of people start communicating together.

So we recommend you not to be lazy and try different audio chats and draw conclusions by yourself, otherwise seemingly small audio chat application within a dozen megabytes with a modest system requirements may in fact be a voracious monster that will not leave any chance for a comfortable gameplay and live communication.

Among other important features of audio chats, you should check a list of supported codecs (algorithms responsible for processing and transmitting voice and its quality). For today the most advanced codec - OPUS, it retains excellent voice quality even on low bit rates, uses less Internet traffic and provides a more natural voice sound. If your chat client supports it - we do recommend to try it - you will like it.

In conclusion we want to remind you that technology is good, but do not forget about the basics – adjust audio devices right before the game and make sure that your microphone is not "locked", and the headphones have right volume level.

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5 little-known and rarely used functions of voice chat

Voice chats significantly extended their functionality during the last years but many people use them in the old fashioned way, missing their wide capabilities. Below we will describe the 5 little-known and underrated voice chat capabilities.

So here they are:

The direct talks

Besides group communication, you can also talk to someone directly, not excluding communication in a group. This will be very handy if you need to discuss something with your friend and don’t disturb other team members, while staying in touch with whole team. This can be done using "individual calls" or by assigning hotkeys for communication with particular players.

Hot keys

At the first glance it seems to be a good idea to put a whole team in one group where all members can hear everyone. You have no need to repeat twice the same, everyone is aware of everything. But behind this simplicity hides multitude of problems: total noise in the air, often conflicts, confusion and constant interruption. All these problems can be avoided by dividing team into groups with clearly defined objectives. Communication between groups can be configured by assigning hotkeys. Players may communicate with the entire group as well as with certain people. Beside communication function you can set keyboard shortcuts to the most popular commands and functions to save vital time. Indeed, instead of climbing in the game settings, all can be done just by pressing a couple of keys.

An officer's creation and giving rights

As we know, a creator of a voice server has all possible privileges and features but it is hard to do everything by himself. That’s why many chats allow to create special users (officers) with certain rights and privileges, such as: block, ban, mute other users, create rooms, restrict access to them, create other officers, etc. This is especially useful if you have a large guild and players has different responsibilities or they are divided into different groups which someone has to lead.

Ranks and hierarchy

If every player of the team do what he wants, the result will be only one, chaos. Anyway, players are forced to listen to commands of experienced players and follow to their instructions. To do this process more smooth and make words of guiding players come to others without any interruptions or interference. Voice chats offer to build a hierarchy, based on the user’s rank. So a player with a larger rank will speak with a higher priority and can be interrupted only by a player with even larger rank. In addition to the communication priorities, users may have special rights such as the ability to manage other users, linked to their ranks.

Multiple listening

Splitting of the team into several groups can improve organization but also it leads to the isolation of players within groups. In order to avoid this, voice chats offer a multiple listening. Users in the group are able to listen other groups.

These functions are just several examples of little-known and underrated features of voice chats but there are actually much more. We hope we inspired you to try go deeper in understanding of how voice services can help you in group communication.

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Is voice chat only for "own people"?

We decided to demystify a point of view that voice chat can only be used with close friends or with well-known teammates.

Actually communication in voice chat with strangers isn’t more difficult than communicating in global chats in multiplayer games. Voice communication is much more natural and pleasant than a tedious process of typing on a keyboard. In addition, voice chat does not cancels text chat it is present in almost all voice chats.

For massive raids with a new team members or just with some temporary players - voice chats are simply irreplaceable. To gather players only thing you need is just send them a link to your voice server and then verbally instruct all players at once. You no longer need to repeating same things dozens of times. New players have to download, install the chat and simply connect to your server. Most chats do not require registration each individual player.

Modern voice chats easily allow you to manage large groups of people, you should not worry that if you once invite guests to server they will create problems for you in the future. Guest access to a voice server can be easily controlled and limited.

Voice chats are used by majority of professional teams, and those who play for a long time! So, if you decided to join a team or to create one by yourself, you have to be ready to change your communication for the better.

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Short interview by Vladimir Kuzminov (Virtus.pro) for MyTeamVoice

Vladimir "Maelstorm" Kuzminov commentator of Virtus.pro on Dota 2. 

What problems can arise when you creating (gathering) a team? 

(VK): I can tell you one thing: on this step, any more or less strong team will not face much problems.

How to organize your team during the game?

(VK): It is too late to start organizing your team during the game, it should be done before the game. 

Could voice chat solve the problems of team’s organization during the game?

(VK): Voice chat solves the problem of communication, because it is the most simple and convenient way to communicate. 

Do you advise to use the voice chats?

(VK): I advise everyone to use then because it is so much easier to play and have fun especially in team games.

What are the differences in organization tactics of large teams comparing with smaller ones?

(VK): Large teams more depends on their leader, coordinator. In fact, in large team mostly should talk a leader and others have to listen his information and only sometimes insert short phrases.

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Basic rules for using voice chat

        

We decided to describe basic rules which will help you communicate in voice chat more effectively and comfortably in large and small teams.

1. Assign roles in the team

In the beginning it’s important to understand your role in the team, who you should listen first and who you may ignore. Understanding of your role in the team and a mission in a game will cut most of unnecessary conversations and allow your team to concentrate on the game and avoid chaos. It is very important to assigning a leader and keep to agreed hierarchy.

2. Speak and answer shortly

Brevity is the soul of wit, especially in action-games it may cost you a victory. Dozens of players need to coordinate their actions quickly and accurately, they must be able to get a full picture and build a plan of further actions from the voice communications. So be brief, speak only about important things and this will bring positive results and it will decrease a level of irritation in the team.

3. Keep calm

Relax, it's just a game, especially in cases where they are not needed. Nobody talks about the complete absence of emotion, cause we are playing to get them, but try to respond with restraint. Such behavior will give you respect from other players.

4. Maintain order and listen to the leader

Chaos in the team is a deadlock. You will have no fun, neither winning nor any other positive results. Follow the rules of your team, listen to your leader and then you will get a totally different feel of the game. You must be tough enough if you want maintain an order in your team - ban and mute works fairly effectively.

5. Respect others

In the beginning take care of your microphone, everyone should hear your voice clearly, neither too quiet nor too loud. Turn off the music and make sure that you do not create any extra noise that may disturb or annoy others.

We hope these simple rules will help your team to make communication in better and move forward team results.

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Voice chat: who and how can use it

A Voice Chat - is a tool that can be used by professionals and amateurs, but statistics shows that a voice chat is mostly prefered by the players with experience. It’s the main audience of voice chats. It is quite logical because professionals have an opportunity to evaluate how important voice chat can be for team success. The main reasons that makes voice chats so important for players is a high quality support of a voice communication even for large teams, a high speed of communication within the team and an ability to use team’s rank system.

When beginners start to use a voice chat it let them learn the nuances of the game much easier when they are talking by voice with friends than painfully slowly typing on a keyboard, in the early steps period it is very important. Of course most gamers self-taught but why you need to spend so much time if you can just use a voice chat and join the team and in a few games learn much more that you expect from playing alone.

A voice chat looks like an ordinary chat for communication where there is a place for every team member, a few rooms and simple list of basic parameters. You just need to spend 10-20 minute to understand how to use a typical voice chat even if you have never had any experience with similar programs. By default most voice chats are configured so that you don’t need to change anything in the very beginning.

The most modern voice chats do not require registration for all participants, they can easily be invited to the server: only they need is a password to server and voice chat client application. For more advanced players there are opportunities to put, shortcuts to send messages to specific players and groups, configure the hierarchy, set priorities, listen to other rooms and many other things.

We recommend to have a voice chat to each player of online games, it is as necessary for the gamer as keyboard or mouse :)

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5 reasons why you should try the voice chat!

If you are a natural born gamer and play online games several times a week, you need to know what is a voice chat and why it is necessary for you and all your friends, brothers in spirit.

Today gamers for voice communication prefer to use popular messengers like Skype. However, abilities of such programs significantly more modest than of those which were specially created for group voice communication in games.

So why it's worth to try a specialized voice chat?

First of all – it is specially designed for in-game player communication, not for not important features for gaming such as video chat, integration with social networks etc. Generally, specialized voice chats are very light and use a small fraction of computer memory and processor resources. In the case of network failures will manage a team to stay together and could continue playing. As it is well known, reliable communication not only can save your life, but sometimes provide a winning of the game ;)

Second - easy installation and setup. Just a couple of simple steps to download and install the voice chat on a PC. Configuration of group communication is a matter of minutes and after thеre it saves lots of time, that could be spend on the game.

Third - Voice chats designed for all types and kinds of games, so if you like gaming not only in one game you won’t need to look for a new communication solution and spend time to install and learn it.

Fourth - voice chat will save you for a need to type messages to your friends clarifying some aspects of the game to teammate or expressing emotions and desires, it is much easier to say something and continue gaming having more time to actually engage in battle.

Fifth - professional voice chats are able to show overlay windows inside the game letting you make some tweaks or adjustments during the game. So, if you need to turn off the microphone, adjust a sound level, go to another voice room, you don’t need to switch to desktop application and lose sight of the situation, you have everything under control!

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Voice chat MyTeamVoice significantly updated!

By the requests of our users we added Unicode support (support all major languages) for usernames, room and rank names.

We significantly improved reliability of Client application and Overlay.

More than a half of all made fixes and changes (about 100) are dedicated to Overlay, among them extended list of supported functions (switch rooms inside a game), improved text display and user interface, greatly modified a system that processes hot keys and almost the main one extended support of games which uses DirectX 10 and DirectX 11.

More details about update MyTeamVoice 0.4.0 is available here: http://myteamvoice.com/download

You can always suggest improvements, report bugs or leave a review on our support site: http://feedback.myteamvoice.com/

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Series of articles: voicechat

Voice chat in the world of multiplayer games has not become a “must have” feature yet, but all professional teams already cannot imagine their games without voice communication. Every team that moved forward from "play before bedtime" has started thinking or even started using voice communication on certain level.

We are preparing the series of articles which contain more information about how a voice chat can help organizing communication in a team, how professional players use it, how voice chat can be used in small and large teams, about best practices for team organizing, new useful communication functions which can give players an some advantages over their rivals.

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