How about this then ... DID YOU HEAR THAT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJDAknk-t8I also have a longer version (~3 minutes) if necessary.
Also - and I don't want to be rude here - but how about you let other people decide for themselves what they find annoying. You're counting seconds, trying to get some sort of empirical research for something that is entirely subjective. Yes, we get it, you don't find the repetitive NPC chatter annoying (good for you, honestly) and now you're arguing whether or not people are just imagining things by breaking down their videos into "dead air" vs "audio chatter" as if you WANT to take people's complaints literally to discredit their judgement and prove your point. It doesn't work like that. Different people have different opinions on what they call annoying and what they call constant. Try for yourself. Sit on a chair with a bucket hanging above you from which a drop of water drips onto your forehead. Once every 10 seconds, once every 30, every minute, every hour. Doesn't matter. Just sit there long enough and at some point you'll find it annoying, even if it's just one brief moment of *splish* vs 59 minutes and 59 seconds of nothing. Maybe you'd be able to sit there all day, others would stand up and walk away way sooner. I'm sure you've heard of it but in case you didn't, this procedure is called Chinese water torture and is said to drive people insane. Well, not all people, but some. This is where subjective perception kicks in.
Now, could we just focus on the fact that there are a lot of people who find the NPCs pesky? I think someone argued earlier that only a handful of people have come here to complain about it vs the thousands upon thousands who bought the game and didn't. Well, not everyone goes to forums, in fact I believe only a fraction of people would do this. I'm most certain there are a lot of people who find this just as annoying and just silently wait for a patch. But since you're apparently a fan of statistics and precise numbers; how many different people have complained in this thread and how many defended the status quo?
