MS Gives Devs Option to Remove Private Chat from Upcoming Titles

Do you like to use the party chat option on your Xbox 360? Well, if you do, you may soon find yourself being forced out of using that option. Microsoft appears to be offering developers the option to negate the private chat option the Xbox 360 offers. Currently, players have the option of forming a private chat with players, but that will soon change.

[kaveti6616]

Read the title, read the article, and then see if it matches up. MS is not "forcefully" removing the feature. It is allowing developers the choice of removing the feature from their game based on how they want their multiplayer to be experienced. So what MS is doing is giving developers more freedom.

Unfortunately, the examiner just posted the title for hits.

[Saaking]

Damage control already? Why would MS take these feature (one of the FEW things XBL has over PSN) away? If devs have the choice to do less work they'll take it.

[Myst]

I agree with kaveti6616 the actual context of the paragraph provided and the article itself does not equal what the title portrays or rather tries to. Microsoft isn't forcibly removing it, they are allowing developers the opportunity whether to do so or not. It's pretty much the same as to how Sony gives developers the option whether or not to include music streaming.

[kaveti6616]

No, Saaking. Microsoft is allowing developers to decide whether or not they want players who play the multiplayer feature to be able to communicate certain kinds of information to each other in certain multiplayer modes. For example, if you're playing a standard 5 on 5 deathmatch and you get killed, if you're in a private chat, you can tell your teammates exactly where the enemy is, what weapon he killed you with, etc. Maybe the developer wants to make that mode more challenging by not allowing teammates that level of communication ability. Microsoft is allowing developers that choice.

And your claim that developers will suddenly remove private chat from their games because they don't have to do it is moot. You have no idea what developers think. Sony never had a rule that said PS3 games HAD to run at certain resolutions, but nevertheless developers strive for more. You assume the developers are lazy and only do what they HAVE to? How cynical can you be?

On a side note, I'm only formally explaining this to you so that other people on this site who aren't biased will understand what Microsoft is doing. I am already fully aware that you're a fanboy retard with no life who does nothing but bash Microsoft every other post.

[pixelsword]

Giving the designer more options without forcing one or another thing to enhance gameplay is what Microsoft is doing... versus requiring something in a unilateral way that could hurt gameplay.

Because of the title, this article is near Lame if not outright Fake; this is definitely a "question mark" title if I ever saw one.

[El_Colombiano]

Microsoft is just jealous of Demon's Souls online where no vocals adds to the atmosphere.

[Sarcasm]

They are making so it's not 'mandatory'

Maybe they feel it's hindering some game development.

[ReservoirDog316]

If I'm understanding right, that's actually a good idea. I always here people saying that it ruins games because you could just tell your team where people are when you die.

So taking it out, or the ability to take it out, is actually a good idea.

[Parapraxis]

This is actually a very good idea.
Wouldn't be surprised if MW2 was the first game to have party chat disabled.

[Blaze929]

theres a difference between party chat and private chat. Private chat is 1 on 1 chat that has been availible since day 1 and isn't going anywhere and can still be used while playing any game, even MW2. PARTY CHAT is what is now in the hands of developers.

EDIT:

FFS it even SAYS "Party Chat option not available." In the article's screenshot box. Who the hell wrote/submitted this crap?

[GRRiMREEAPeR]

This article has a 'fox news' level spin on it smh. mw2 IS the first game to implement it, infact i wouldn't be surprised if it was their idea in the first place. private chat can ruin certain game modes (ie SnD) in COD so by making this an optional feature micro and IW are enhancing the game in a very big way. Think before u comment please.

[Xbox Avatars Shoe]

I hope Sony's cross-game chat isn't like their custom soundtracks where it's up to the developers! Almost NO game on PS3 support custom sound tracks! Since the music isn't directly through the XMB like custom sound tracks are on 360, you can't listen to it while playing a demo or an older PS3 game. I know the reason why PS3 custom soundtracks are up to developers is because M$ has a patent but M$ does NOT have a patent for cross-game voice chat so hopefully it'll be universal across all games, demos, videos and the web browser.

In regards to 360's Party Chat and this article, I would actually like certain game modes to have Party Chat blocked. I love cross-game Party Chat but I have to admit, I get pissed when I join a Nazi Zombies game and the 3 other players are each in their own separate Party Chat so there's no communication and team work between any of us. It happens pretty often and it goes like this:

Player 1 is in PC with his friends
Player 2 is in a different PC than Player 1
Player 3 is in different PC than Player 1 and 2
And I'm in Game Chat talking to myself

So, all four players aren't talking to each other, so there's to team work, so we only make it to like round 20 >.<

[PimpHandHappy]

is right

private chat/cross game chat is being used for cheats and i like that MS is doing this...

i dont own a 360 and never will but im guessing this private chat is also what is used in cross game chat

anyway
2many cheats online to start with... so its good if this will limit the amount of cheating a few ppl teamed up can do

[xoxideu]

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[Ausbo]

the examiner and everyone who work for it are jokes.

All i ever see from this site is flamebait, misleading and/or false titles.

[Redempteur]

what's with that escuse ?

Sorry First if you are killed by someone in a fps ...

-Your allies will see you disappear on the map ( giving an idea or the ennemy location )
-There is voice chat already ..
- Will you spend ALL YOUR TIME typing and your allies waste precious seconds reading this ... while an ennemy might come and kill you ?

That's sad really ...

[The Lazy One]

The private chat and party chat are both dashboard features. They run outside the game on M$ things. All the developer should have to do is throw in a single global variable saying whether or not chat should be allowed.

[DelbertGrady]

Can someone please tell me what's the difference between private chat and a party chat with 2 persons?

And that's why they are giving developers the option to remove private chat. It's superflous as party chat holds the same function.

[Lightsaber]

This is completely fake. They have no proof other then random pic. They prove no source for this pic so it was probably done in photoshop. Also MS REQUIRES devs to add private chat to all games.

[corneliuscrust]

360 related article?

that's some SAAAAD trolling right there, little man. You don't even change how you type it. Just copy pasta this "exciting news" to spam everywhere you can.

We KNOW that GT5 is a better looking, more polished racer than forza. Anyone with eyes knows that.

But what's this article about? Forza? GT5? PS3? NO.. take your flamebait to the open zone. I encourage everyone to report this sort of behaviour. Mnichols, that's jusst plain pathetic

[Alcon Caper]

You're my hero.

[dib8rman]

It's simple, whats good for developers doesn't mean it's good for the customer.

Downloadable and pay per play and expansions are good for the developers, but spending $200 on something you don't own and have no way of showing it's value or interest, it's a trap for the customer.

Get it strait man, your being used. How can someone argue that taking away the option is a good thing?

What if developers in turn decide to make it part of some content pack, or even worse part of a monthly "bonus experience" fee... If you think it's impossible... believe it or not, years ago we used to think pay to play games wouldn't be big. We as in gamers.

Gamers don't make games with episodic content, and downloadable content and absurd ammounts of expansion packs, monthly fees and so on. Gamers used to make games for gamers, at some point the industry lost touch with that. We wouldn't have so many people going around drilling lies into our eyes if they still had the talent they used to.

/rant

[Alcon Caper]

get off your high horse. it's completely an option FOR the gamer.

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will force players to decide whether or not they’ll play the game and join the game chat, or choose to stay in a private chat and not play in the multiplayer game."

Get it? They are forced to DECIDE. MS isn't forcing anything, they're giving devs the option of giving players the option of choosing a party-chat-allowed game or a party-chat-free game.

Your /rant has nothing to do with the article and your attack on devs for not choosing what's best for the gamer is completely unrelated to the article. By generalizing abuse to freedoms that a company gives to its developers is short sided and biased.

This is GOOD because it gives us gamers more options. I just don't understand some people.

[dib8rman]

That's directed at the original post nothing to do with the article.

I mean if you read my comment line it said @OP

[Saaking]

MS FAILS

[Stryfeno2]

Apparently you can't read.

EDIT: Microsoft appears to be OFFERING developers the OPTION to negate the private chat option the Xbox 360 offers.

But the Title contradict that passage.

[BX81]

Saaklicking fails!!

[No FanS Land]

This guy only knows comfort. He bashes Xbox over and over because he thinks he's in security since this website has more sony followers.

Fail.

[Saaking]

More Sony "followers"? hahaha, don't make me laugh. There's an equal amount of bots.

[cyborg6971]

What astonished me about xbox fans are the ability to take multiple d!cks from ms and still keep they're sh!t in. You would think that they're entrails would be tripping them up on the way to get the next sub-hd halo for the new gen not next gen 360.

[Defectiv3_Detectiv3]

For a service that prides itself on user support this is kind of a dumb move; why not just stop players playing the same game from using in-game chat instead of punishing people who are playing something totally different and just want to chat?

[No FanS Land]

I don't believe this SH*T!!!! Equal amount? ARE YOU JOKING ME??? Reading a good amount of news and some comments I almost only PS fanboy comments. There's like 3 times the PS fanboys than 360 fanboys.

Need I remind you the Gears of war 2 fiasco where Ps fanboys created accounts to announce the spoilers of the game?

2 years ago, you would have been right to say there were more Xbox fanboys, or even equal for that matter. but not today

[kevinx1000]

2 fail comments saaking. try harder.

"Last Playing Halo 3

Offline for 19 Hrs"

YES droids, that's from your beloved saaking.
probably still gonna disagree though. look up his GT: Hellswrath2231

if this would be true, what about party chat? you can stll use that if you want a private conversation.

[Upbeat]

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[Sm0k3y_Bac0n]

An equal amount of bots. You for real? Your comment saying MS fails has nearly 3 times as many people agreeing with it than disagreeing. Do you actually read these articles? or do you just post xbox hate on any 360 related article. You dont like 360, we get it, you dont have to continually spout crap though

[kevinx1000]

that's not all.
he PRETENDS he doesn't like. he plays on it daily himself.

[Menchi]

I think it'd more of a downside than anything. It should be up to the player whom they wish to speak with.

[I am Legend]

Exactly.

What is this world coming to ?

EDIT :

I did.

[StanLee]

PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE COMMENTING. PEACE.

[Lightsaber]

if this is true I'd never buy a game that disabled private chat

[Tjtroublemaker]

i dont know whether to think this is good or bad, while sometimes i do like to have a private conversation with my friends, not having to worry about some dusch interrupting and having to mute everyone, i also sometimes feel alone when im playing a 4v4 game in Halo3 and find myself trying to save a teammate by saying someone is behind him but realize im talking to myself. Dont know how this is gonna work out...i guess you can make everyone happy all the time.

[Blaster_Master]

Im not paying for live if they take this feature out while im playing COD6.

[drewboy704]

If they made a petition id definetly sign. Maybe with we can get half the nearly 2 million people who preordered the game for the 360 they'll disable the feature. If not. F**k Activision and Infinity ward. What r they trying to do help Sony sell more copies since Live's bigthing is party chat and without that were r my $4 a month going.

[BX81]

If it's taken away in MW2 I think it should be taken out for certain game play types not all. I can see S&D being one of them.

[Dirk Benedict]

1.1 and 1.2 fail. You fail along with the rest of the Red Ring Army. Why don't you hold hands and skip together while wearing nothing but an ms brand g-string.

flop in.

[CaptainAmerica]

shhhhhhh, STFU

[BX81]

@Dirk how sweet of you to defend your life partner. I'm not a defender of MS just exterminator of tards. If you read my past comments I'm all for Sony as well as MS. You droids and bots will never win. Now run along young one.

[josh14399]

i understand why they did this but i think its crap to be honest because i tend to join private chat with my mates so i dont have to chat to the annoying children that are in most live games.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

People are using it to cheat so they are making it an option for the developer if they feel the party chat could lead to it happening in there game.

Nothing forcefully is being removed and once again this MattyF guy throws his journalistic integrity out the window for cheap hits. Dude is one of the biggest fails in gaming blogs since Mike Ferro.

[chrisulloa]

"MS Forcefully Removes Private Chat"

"Microsoft appears to be offering developers the option to negate the private chat option the Xbox 360 offers"

What? Lol, god this article is so stupid. The title contradicts the article.

[LtSkittles]

This is probably the only thing I agree with you on. Seriously,the a difference, between optional, and forcefully.

[divideby0]

it would be LOL funny if when and if PSN allows this and they have full support for it from all developers

[peeps]

it really wouldn't lol the whole point of them doing this is to try and reduce cheating.

it would be pretty annoying playing a game like socom where dead enemies can tell their team mates where u are etc

[N4GayFanturds]

are the ones heavily rely on party chat to win a game.

[blu_yu_away]

Not necessarily, I'd be disappointed by this as I always prefer private chat and do not use it to cheat. I just like to be able to have a conversation with my buddies without having to deal with all of the annoying idiots on live. Often we're not even playing the same game. That said, I definitely understand why this would be necessary in games/modes which do not have respawning.

[drewboy704]

Exactly. I hate listening to little kids who keep on talking about how good they r cause their parents let them play to much and them complaining when they loose. And every now and then u run into some old teen who thinks hes so cool but hes just being a dusch. Rather just talk to my buds. Now im gonna end up muteing half my team anyhow and some others wont have mics so it will be just me with like one person the most.

[The Lazy One]

I never had a large issue with kids on live. worst case scenario, you leave the room and find another.

What I did have a problem with was being stuck on a silent team that couldn't hear me telling them any enemy locations or organizing any kind of strategy leaving me stuck in what may as well be a single player game.

[peeps]

"I just like to be able to have a conversation with my buddies without having to deal with all of the annoying idiots on live. "

you could always just mute the idiots...

[nombon]

Is this feature only going to disrupt the party chat for search and destroy or is this gonna disable the party chat for every multiplayer gametype?
I mean team deathmatch isn't really effected by party chat, im thinking S & D is a big one that needs this feature but evrything else not so much

[ps360master]

first off... kave owned you

2nd off why do you even care. you don't have a 360. all you are is a 360 bashing fanboy.. as a gamer ps360 owner i am disgusted to know that such a fool is playing on psn...you give sony a bad name by bashing the 360 no matter what...makes it seem like more immature little retard kids (YOU) actually play on psn

[TruEve]

I don't care about the misleading title...

So, it's nice for devs to have the option to exclude private chat if they want to preserve the rules and experience of their multiplayer components.

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Also, it seems like MW2 players won't be able to party/private chat! Am I reading that correctly? My little bro won't like that lol!

[NecrumSlavery]

It's to cut down on cheaters. What they should do is block friend chat when you are on opposite teams in the sane match. That's fair.

MS doing it this way just keeps on proving that LIVE isnt worth $50 a month

[dragonelite]

Dont know i think it would be more usefull if you could stay in party chat if nobody of your party was inside of your game so no cheating is possible.

[TruEve]

Maybe it would be nice if the game noticed whether or not your chat friends are in your multi-player session. That would solve all problems, well, besides you not actually communicating to your team lol.

[Ninji]

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will force players to decide whether or not they’ll play the game and join the game chat, or choose to stay in a private chat and not play in the multiplayer game."

Xbox 360 inferior version confirmed.

[chrisulloa]

Because PS3 will have this right? Plus we have party chat lol

[Blaster_Master]

After this, how can I justify paying for live anymore when the ps3 gets cross game chat? Screw this, I hope Microsoft does this so I have a reason to sell my 360 for some ps3 games.

[betrayed gamer]

did u read the article at all or r u just going with the fanboy flow? MS is not removing it they are allowing other companies to not allow it during certain online sessions thats all. if this is wat it takes to get you off of live thats pretty sad. alot less justifiable then even saakings remarks half the time.

[Corepred4]

for the 360 owners. i mean i thought companies were supposed progress. yes its only an option and it gives dev's more freedom but that could actually cost the gamer. that's just a feature that could be left out when before it was always there on 360 games. wow if your happy with this decision you must be so far up MS' @ss, wow....

[betrayed gamer]

its not that he's happy, he just looks at the better side of a dark light so to speak this could be good and bad.

[Noob]

But now, not so much. This is good for multiplayer games COD, just as long as developers remove the feature from the games where people could use it to cheat. This should only work when the same players they are chatting with are in that same game. How could they cheat if the person they are chatting with is in a different game?

[ASSASSYN 36o]

If you are not on my friends lists...I don't want to talk to you.

[leila01]

How do you make friends then?

[McDaygo]

I'm with you to a certain degree, but I wouldn't say it in such a blanket statement. I prefer to chat with my friends in a party, but if I'm on by myself I will chat with anybody.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

The people on my friends lists I know in person. So much for your ASSumption.

[FantasyStar]

Does anyone here read the article anymore? I hope people at least read the article first before commenting.

[Risky_24]

I think what they should do is disable party chart for people playing the same game while still allowing party chat with any other individuals outside this particular game. That in my opinion would make alot more sense instead of having the feature totally disabled while playing that particular game. This way players have a choice of whether they want to chat in-game with everyone else or with friends outside the game without having to be forced not to play.

[Dead_Cell]

It can be exploited,and some game modes like COD search and destroy will benefit from this.

[Arutha]

Here is what I don't get. Why take this option away at all? I think if your in a game playing with friends on a party chat or private chat why not set it up so if a player gets killed then their mic is muted while they are waiting to respawn. This I believe will add more realism to the game since after all dead men tell no tales. If the developers (Yes, Developers, not MS) are going to take away the private or party chat on certain games, then I hope they give us the ability to mute annoying players.

I like the party chat since I don't want to hear all the stupid crap being said on the game channel. Besides when in party chat your not always talking about the game your playing!

[ForROME]

Title is misleading however; I think this is a ridiculous move MS stength on live has always been, STANDARD features across all games, this inturn pulls a PS3 can do music in games should devs want to style

LAME

[LinuxGuru]

Uh oh!

[Bigpappy]

Games like Call of duty, RB6 and Halo have they own in game chat which is controlled by the developers. So you can only talk to some one when the game allows. This is how people played MP game before party was released. Worked well in Ghost Recon. When you were dead, you could not talk to the living.

[jack who]

ppl cant read and also ppl wont stop crying....am looking at you ppl who b1tched about how private chat is killing xbl i bet your gona b1tch bout this one too

[JeffGUNZ]

Dude, you can't make them happy. They will find SOMETHING to cry and complain about.

I think the pros to this move outweigh the cons. Yeah, I enjoy private chatting to ignore people and only talk to my friends, but I also hate Search and Destroy or any other game type where people just sit in private chat and talk about positioning when they are dead. Gears 2 was the worst with this thanks to the ghost cam. If you don't want to hear anyone else talking, just mute them. COD4 had a quick mute for players. Just hit the back button and hit "A" over their name, muted till they leave the room. I'd rather mute a few people then have cheaters.

[Jackel2072]

im sorry but mainly out side of my friends list i hate people on XBL. i stopped going into the game chat to avoid hearing idiots talk. it can get pretty bad out there some nights, with peope calling you the N-word or god knows what else.

[Scotty056]

Hahaha
Sony rules

[DirtyLary]

About time.

[RockmanII7]

If a game does this, I will probably not buy it. There are to many good games for the devs to intentionally take away features and still win my $$$.

[moodymofo]

ive never liked that feature anyway it sucks in a game like halo where its only 4 on a team and 2 of them are in private chat and the other guy doesnt have a mic .its verry rude

[PS360PCROCKS]

rude? Not talking to you on live is rude? It's their prerogative

[GarandShooter]

Their perogative? He did say 'team'. If you don't want to act like part of a team, why not just play free-for-all type modes instead of team modes?

[PS360PCROCKS]

Your kidding right? "team" as in their playing on the same team, they have to communicate with you. Besides he mentioned HALO of all games, HALO!! That's not a team based game. Rarely has talking over live EVER helped me play the game.

[Tjtroublemaker]

its not a priority to talk to your teammates but it does help, like if a teammate is sniping somewhere and you see a guy crouching up behind him ready to assassinate him and your voice falls on deaf ears because he was in a party talking about who knows what...and it could be annoying if that kill that you tried to prevent caused the other team to win. Its more of like an Honor code than anything...to help communicate with your team to win. there are tons of situations that applies too

[silvertip83]

I think when it comes to games such as Operation Flashpoint and other serious team games like Rainbow Six Vegas 2 its a great thing to have when dealing with multiplayer. But for games such s COD and arcady shooters and such its kinda dumb. In a game that takes no skill I see no point to restrict this.

Also, Its going to be difficult for people who are playing different games to communicate if they want to play multiplayer. rather stupid if you ask me.

[elexdc]

If this is true it's really dumb IMO. Honestly, most of the time that I play games, I like to chat with all of my friends who are not even playing the same game that i'm playing. Here is an idea, disable party chat if the users are playing the same game and match ... otherwise, the disabling it is pointless and only pisses off casual gamers like myself. For Microsoft having such a mission to capture more casual gamers, this looks to be a pretty piss poor idea.

Oh and if this is simply a cause to help reduce cheating, why don't they offer the developers the option to disable private chat too. Seriously, couldn't you cheat with that too? I'm not sure how true any of this actually is though. Can you honestly see Microsoft giving up their control to the developers?

If this rumor is true and also the rumor of live increasing in cost, I may very well just have to make the switch fully to my PS3. :(

[PS360PCROCKS]

I like private chat during games because I can talk with certain people and not be interrupted by idiots. Oh well I guess

[Figboy]

the educational systems of the world.

for one thing, the title is misleading. crafted only to generate hits from fanboys of both camps.

secondly, i think it's a good idea to "remove" the feature in MP matches if it can help make the online playing field more even.

this isn't a bad thing at all, and it's not being "forced" by Microsoft. much like Sony's custom soundtrack, it's up to the developers if they want to allow the feature.

reading the comment section gives me the distinct feeling that a lot of posters didn't quite comprehend what the true story is.

shame on the examiner for manipulating the news to garner hits. you know, i don't think it's fair for some of the folks here on N4G to cry about "no name blogs," when the "legitimate" news sources out there are even WORSE, in that they have the proper information and inside track, and they STILL manipulate their readers to get hits.

it's time for the gaming media to start getting called out for their practices. they are doing more harm than good to the industry we all love and enjoy (just look at how many people still think the PS3 has no games, and the Xbox 360 is just for shooters).

[N4GAddict]

Actually, examiner is pretty much a blog web site as well. This particular writer has a history of doing hits-garnering stories similar to this:

Bayonetta PS3 is Not Broken, It's Fluid and Well Made
http://n4g.com/ps3/News-419...

Naughty Dog Pokes Fun at Next-Gen Graphics and Games
http://n4g.com/News-410011....

Uncharted 2: Buy a PS3 to Play It, It's that Good
http://n4g.com/ps3/News-409...

Uncharted 2: An Experience the 360/Wii Cannot Match
http://n4g.com/ps3/News-406...

New Sony Ads are Creepy and Distasteful
http://n4g.com/News-402429....

Uncharted 2 Graphics Rival Real Life
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...

Yakuza 3 US Release Date Announced: Never
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...

Microsoft is now Sony and Sony is now Nintendo
http://www.n4g.com/gaming/N...

Konami's Week of Announcements Ends in Tears
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...

[TheTeam06]

Misleading titles make me cringe.....

[BX81]

Not knowing if your avatar is a homeless cat or a drunk moth makes my brain cringe as well.

[TheTeam06]

It's a drunken cat.

[N2NOther]

I don't use it often but it makes sense in games like Search and Destroy.

[Hypnotic]

Sucks. But I understand why they're doing it.

[XeroTrinity]

Why dont they just implement a way for developers to find out if two players in a private chat are on opposing teams and if so disable it for THEM not all of xbox live users.

I think its a way to give developers that extra little horsepower left in the console without causing a bad backlash

[PS360PCROCKS]

It's not opposing teams, it's the same team. Basically say me and you are in a private chat and we're playing Gears of war. I die, yet I can still talk to you and use the camera angles. So I can tell you where the other team is, especially in a 1 on 1. I know because I've done it before with people. Doesn't guarantee success tho, you still gotta kill em

[XeroTrinity]

OOooooh right right, carry on now. =D

[loslonelyman]

We all have each others phone numbers..we usually text each other anyway,much quicker in gb's anyway

[psycho360]

Sounds strange. Dont know if its a step in right direction. Rather than opening LIVE up more MS are restricting LIVEs features. Soon PSN will catch up and then there will be no advantage whatsoever of XBL. Maybe MS should now think about reducing or removing the Gold fees.

[GarandShooter]

MS isn't restricting anything, they're giving developers the choice of disabling the feature.

[psiom]

First, title is wrong.

Second, why would developers take this feature away anyway? Party chat is more than likely a standard SDK feature and not hard to implement/support, so you would expect this will only have any effect if a developer has a really good reason to do it.

Silly flamebait. There are better things to rabble over.

[Droid Control]

This is a F***ING OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

[BabyColada]

I understand why they're doing this, but I talk to friends in different games all the time, so this kinda sucks. If I had to guess I'd say there are a LOT more people who use the private chat for the same reason as I do, versus the handful of douchebags who use it to cheat, so in the end this is probably going to annoy more gamers than it will help.

I guess I'll just buy Modern Warfare 2 used.

[GarandShooter]

If devs are doing this, and it is to curb cheating, they must have had a significant number of complaints.

[AliTheBrit19]

Wow

Ignorance never ceases to astound me

PS3 Doesn't even have any kind of feature like this

And Microsoft reveal they will allow DEVELOPERS to decide and you all act as if microsoft are commiting some kind of crime, probably before even reading the article.

Morons.

If this happens at all it will be 100% down to devs, as its OPTIONAL.

kkthnxbai.

[Hiruu]

Forcefully?

So, M$ giving DEVELOPERS the options are FORCEFULLY making this happen...N4G really is Foxnews of vid games...wow!

[Mattpfeil]

All this does is keep people from beating the system in games like Search and Destroy. Your dead, you can't be telling you teammates that are still alive where you died from. Now I am not going to say that I have not used Party chat to cheat in S&D, because I have. I am not upset about this feature though. I actually think it is a good idea. Not all playlists force you out of Party chat. I know this because I spent most of the day yesterday streaming a live video of some guy playing all the playlists in turn.

[RetroPietro]

that made gaming slightly better online, if they take this out why would a anyone chose Xbox over Playstation??

[RedSoakedSponge]

hopefully this means no cheating in Search and Destroy in Modern Warfare 2. Which cant be bad.

[Droid Control]

is the only thing that makes playing online bearable!

Without it, we'll be FORCED by developers to listen to all those emo/chav 15 yr old americans school boys talk smack!

Thanks, M$.

Way to go!

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hitster]

I hope that at one point this will be a backward compatible feature as well. I hate when I play with my friends and some kid joins our chat. I can't control it and my friends start talking to him too. I just want to play the game. Also I get annoyed when everyone is in chat during halo and no one is talking.

[McDaygo]

When I play with my friends thats all we do is party chat. No offense but thats who I really want to talk to while I'm playing. I've found while most people aren't talking tools, it only takes one to ruin the whole match. Just chatting with my friends keeps it nice and pleasant.

[Karum]

For competitive players that hate people being able to call out locations of enemies when dead, this will be a good thing.

For people that like to chat with friends playing different games this will suck a lot.

Then again it all depends on whether or not developers choose to implement the feature that stops you using party chat.

[Man_of_the_year]

Well there really is no reason for Private Chat. In the party options, you can set it up for invite only, therefore you don't need private chats.

Makes sense. But there is a lot of ignorant people in this thread that a) doesn't own an xbox or has a live account so they don't know and b) just a bunch of ignorant Sony fans that are just looking to hate.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

sorry but that is the worst option in gaming history. i don't want to chat with no fkn body while im playing a different game. you have to be a fkn 10 yr old or a total loser to be chatting with each other while playing a different game.

xtards#1 hey buddy i juss pass level 3
xtards #2 oh yeah cool

the other most ridiculous shlt i ever heard here to is cross chatting while watching netflix. again you have to be a total loser to watch netflix with some random dipshlt and chatting with each other at home by yourself.

xtards #1 hey you know this part
xtards #2 yeah that parts is cool

WTF

[chrisulloa]

Oh my god. You just won the stupidest comment of the year, congratulations.

[Hideo_Kojima]

Why?
This is one of the main reasons people say Xlive is better.

[junk-3d]

hmm, this is pretty crappy. Party chat is one of my favorite features. Maybe they are trying to reduce bandwidth?

[Wikkid666]

Could it be that people complained about it... It can definitely be cheating in competitive matches. Look at all the games that have death cams. Your dead team mates could easy tell you info.

So MS is giving the option to remove that option say in Ranked matches, but it probably would still be available for all other matches.

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

....i wold not care

[davidadrake]

Thank you! Private chat ruins some games.

[Turbo Teddy]

The article is poorly written, the guy who posted the picture, wrote that party chat is disabled in SOME playlists. Not all - and I saw a streaming of a leaked MW2, where the streamer was hosting a party while playing TDM and Mercenary TDM. So if its true, then its limited to some of the playlists, not all..

[Kev2077]

In my opinion this is retarted, i enjoy talking to my friends when i play online ... y would i bother inviting people into private chat to tell them where the other team is ?? its just rediclous ( ok mabye this would work on a game such as gears of war ..but call of duty has a faster type of gameplay and i dont see the point on this for this particular game)

[Bigpappy]

The Title has been corrected after all the beating this blogger took. Good joy guys. Well those who pointed it out. Not the sheep.

[SRT4Chris401]

O'God you mean I have to listen to the morons on game chat trying to start arguements, spitting racials slurs, little bastard kids humming into the mic, and pedophile rapist sounding idiots who breathe into the mic's. Wow that's essentially moving backwards in voice technology by allowing devs to make it like the PS3's chat functions....Dumb....