When I heard about World of Warcraft (WOW) online game then I decided that I start played World of Warcraft back to 2005 for several months then quit playing it due to the personal life situation right before the release of Burning Crusader expansion. That game was very enjoyable and lots of stories which happened right after Warcraft III. Until recently, as soon as the release of Wrath of the Lich King expansion, I want to go back to playing to see how I feel about that. Yes, it’s kinda of addicting but I had to be careful not to being heavily addicted to that since I have a better life to do than sitting there and playing all day and night which I used to playing Ultimate Online and Diablo II (with Lord of Destruction expansion) back to the college years. Unforunately, I start noticed that Ventrilo (the voice chat software) is getting more popular for Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). So, that means lots of players are now depending on Ventrilo for voice communicating with each other during the big raids. Since I’m not capable to hearing anything due to my deafness, therefore, the Ventrilo is worthless and useless to me and lots of the raid guilds don’t want me to be in their guild due to my inability of hearing over the Ventrilo then I decided to bring it up to GameMaster (GM) about that issue and had a talk with GM over that. Found out that they aren’t doing any crap about that. World of Warcraft is pretty fun and enjoyable but unforunately, it won’t be enjoyable at all if you are deaf in the raid party with hearing players on Ventrilo unless you have a full raid party of deaf players then it would be wonderful. I don’t mind to start my own guild which have deaf players, children of Deaf adult (CODA), and any hearing people who understand about Deaf Culture and Deaf World but sadly, I decided not to playing WOW anymore for good even if there’s new expansion in future date because of WOW’s poor policy. That means I am going back to playing video games such as PlayStation2, PlayStation3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable to catch up with several games which I missed out in last several months.
Blizzard Tech/GM/Whoever you are, if you are reading this weblog, then I advise you to do something with Deaf players out there who continue playing WOW since your policy for WOW is pretty poor for the Deaf players. I betcha that you will lose several players over that and even $14.99 a month for each player. And once again, I decided not to go to BlizzCon 2009 either because you won’t have my hundred dollars for that crap!
