Gaming - influenced by

This is an area of my life that is rather neglected at the moment (atm)...oops had to lengthen the shorthand words to full english words LOL (laugh out loud). Without the GUI such online gaming, multi-media online role playing game (mmorpg) such as World of Warcraft (wow) as I like to participate in would not be possible. One tends to rely heavily on activities that are bound to a specific keys on the keyboard... I do have a Logitech G15 keyboard to allow for macros to be bound and used in gameplay. This is then a marketing facility realised to cater for the computer gaming communities.
In game communicaton is easily done. There are several channels supplied for various sections of a typed version of communication. An example is general chat, trade chat, looking for group (lfg), personal one to one chat with someone in game referred to as whispers. Due to gaming content involving groups having to be co-ordinated internet verbal communication as well as the normal typing is involved. The best way I can think of to describe this is that it is similar to skype but this server setup allows for multiple people,up to 40, to be in the same conversation at the same time.It is now supplied within the game, whereas it originally was not so. Yet again a catering to the gaming community. The game is supplied with a language filter, which can be turned off. Other social and moral issues do arise within the game, usually from a higher level character killing a low level character (lowbie). This is generally called ganking. There are game servers set up that discourage this type of behaviour for anyone uncomfortable with player versus player (pvp) game interaction. These are player versus environment (pve) servers.
The computer allows for my enjoyment of this social activity and continual communial contact with friends via the internet.