Why voice fonts don’t matter
I don’t think that my opinion in the title differs that much from the average EVE player, except that it might simply go a little further. I say that because, in general, the only real target audience (so to speak) for the new gender-bending feature that I can imagine basically consists of roleplayers, folks who actually pretend to play a character much like an actor would.
So I went over to the Chatsubo forum, used primarily by the IGS set and a few of us masochists, and asked point-blank. The result?
73% have no intention of using it beyond goofing around once or twice.
Keep in mind that the group polled here largely comprise the hard-core RP groups (or “anal” if you prefer). I can’t think of anyone more likely to have an interest in the voice fonts, and only 1 in 4 of them even plan to use it. Some time may pass before we see actual usage, of course.
I realize that the Vivox API does this already and that, to simplify somewhat, CCP just had to throw a UI on top of it.
But if they had bloodline fonts, then they might have something.