How many of you spend an inordinate amount of time playing online shooters? A lot of hands in the air, great. How many of you do not wear a headset because you don’t want a teenager yelling racist/homophobic slurs at you because you didn’t listen to their directions on how to flank the enemy? Yeah, still a lot of hands. I rarely ever wear a headset for those reasons and only do so when I can play with friends in a private chat. This was the case in Gears, CoD, Halo 3, you name it. Now, that dream is no more. MS is killing Private Chats in Modern Warfare 2 because players could give away enemy locations when dead and gain a competitive advantage. Really?
I play a ton of games online because I can bullshit with my buddies while forgetting about life for awhile. (Sorry Sir, we strictly play 80’s Joel). Every now and again, I’ll hop on a private chat and BS while the game is on, while waiting to respawn, and between matches. Now, I can’t do that. I do understand the rationale behind it and negating any competitive advantage that may or may not come from it, but when did MS get so caught up in competitive gaming? If I was playing in a MLG match, I could understand, but ranked matches are for rank only. That’s it. No money, no great prize. It lets you get to the really good sniple rifle faster than the other guy. MS needs to pump the brakes here and realize not everyone plays games for world dominance. We play games because it’s fun. Furthermore, don’t give me any guff about, “Play social matches pussy”. Everything is ranked in MW2. It’s video games, not the World Cup.
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this is crap i private chat every game .. always on cod b/c i hate little kids yelling
umm all 360 games are infested with little kids. 360 is the new wii.
anyhow when ive played on my friends xbox private chat is gay because you can’t communicate with your team and vice versa. good move M$. ill stick with my ps3
This won’t make it easier to communicate with your team. People like me just won’t chat at all, now. If you don’t like the 360 or it’s gamers, GTFO and find a PS3 topic to waste our time on.
It was infinity wards decision to disable party chat because of cheating not microsofts
Stupid…
Is this a joke? I really don’t want to cancel my pre-order because of some stupid shit like this.
I already cancled my pre-order. Even though it was for PC. But lack of dedicated servers was f***ing retarded! But atleast we have teamspeak and ventrilo for private chat, not that you can even really play with your friends on your clan server. IW has made many mistakes, and big ones. They were at the top of their game when MW came out. MW2 looked so promising but IW just killed it so much. More on the PC, but its the PC where COD started.
Is it IW driving these changes? or is it Activision?
My guess is IW (at least with the server debacle, to tout their matchmaking system). Activision doesn’t have much to gain where IW’s identity is going to be tied to this game. I’m sure they are trying to shape the gameplay and experience as much as possible. Making a huge mistake, IMO. Gamers have shown that they don’t like being restricted. *I* definitely won’t be giving them my money now. I didn’t think the first one was that great but was really geeked for this. Instead I’ll pick it up used for 360 or, ahem, “acquire” it for PC and play it a little. I have a feeling that IW has meddled too much and kept it from really achieving it’s potential…
as i remember you only hear online chatter from your four-man squad in battlefield: bad company, and you can create your own squad consisting of just your buddies or even just you.
thats why im a little confused as to why a lot of games dont even restrict chat to peoples own teams. how are you supposed to be tactical when the other team can hear all your orders?
Just means I will be muting a lot more people on xbox 360.
You say private chat I am assuming that means party chat correct?