#0 - Aug. 9, 2007, 8:23 p.m.
Blizzard Post
We are currently performing maintenance and applying a patch to the Public Test Realms (PTRs). This patch includes many changes, not the least of which is the new voice chat functionality. The realms will be coming back up at approximately 6:00 PM PDT today. We're opening a new PvP PTR realm as well (and adding 4 more character copies for everyone) to help address some of the large queues that have been occurring.

Voice chat will not be enabled immediately today, although you may see some of the features it interacts with, including a new chat channel "organizer" tab in the social window. We plan to enable voice chat tomorrow morning, and as this is our first large scale test we ask that everyone please bear with us during this initial testing phase. We don't expect any major issues, but with such a large and complex feature we're certainly preparing for them.

Also, for now, voice chat will not be available in the battlegrounds.

Thanks for helping us test this new feature, please keep all feedback and bugs in the Test Realm forum, and we hope to see you on the PTR!

Test Realm Forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11572
PTR site with client download and character copies: http://worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/