TMW Ideas

This article from Wired about how the advent of voice for MMORGs like World of Warcraft is creating some interesting interactions between users.
The author enabled a voice chat function to speak to a co-gamer who was impressively skilled and experienced as well as showing real leadership qualities in directing the other players. When they actually started to speak the author says

(I) realized he was an 11-year-old boy, complete with squeaky, prepubescent vocal chords… …he was a terrific World of Warcraft player… …He seemed equally weirded out by me — a 38-year-old guy who undoubtedly sounds more like his father than anyone he recognizes as a “gamer.”

Now I'm happy playing Nintendo with various nephews and nieces but the make believe element is less crucial(I'm not nor do I pretend to be an Italian-American plumber or his brother) as we are just competing for fun and we don't arrive at the game in our game guises so the social adjustment isn't so strange.

But many players are now discovering that voice tweaks the social environment — and sometimes kills off part of what made their favorite world so much fun.

There are some interesting points about how gender issues become prevalent again when voice is used more and I expect before too long the voice chat services will offer some 'skins' for users to disguise their true gender.
Surely all characters in WoW will end up sounding like this.