Comments on: Xbox 360’s Party Chat is the Downfall of Gaming

By: Mike Masashi Murakami III

Mike Masashi Murakami III — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:19:34 +0000

No.

Or Yes.

Whatever.

By: COD_PLAYA

COD_PLAYA — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:32:18 +0000

OMG!!!! ur so stupid if i wanan chat with my fuking freinds i should be able too…….. haha now im jus gunna tell everyone not to buy it because its fukin gay with the whole no party chat things……… haha gud fukin luck with tht whole party chat thing haha ur gunna piss alot of ppl off and who eva the queer is tht says its cheating wow…. stfu seriously kno one cares its a fukin game stop ur dam complaining and play

By: fortris

fortris — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:29:30 +0000

AL OFF U NED TOO LURN TWO SPEEL GUD

By: RockBandFAQ

RockBandFAQ — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:13:33 +0000

I’m going to have to disagree, party chat is a great addition.

When I’m in a party with my friends, it’s good to know that we can talk about stuff without having others listen in to our conversation.

It’s also good to know that while having said conversation, you aren’t disturbing other players who are fully concentrating on the game and would get mad otherwise.

Does it make games less social? Yes, but understand that if someone is in a party chat, they do not want to talk to you. It’s no different than them not having a mic plugged in.

Does it make cheating easier? Yes again, and while I don’t condone cheating it is going to happen either way. You just have to deal with it, and as long as you are better than the other person, you’ll still be able to win.

Have fun while playing, there’s no sense in saying that being able to enjoy a private conversation with friends is “destroying” the live community.

By: niall

niall — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:29:47 +0000

if u had some real friends you wouldnt have this problem

By: Mike Masashi Murakami III

Mike Masashi Murakami III — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:09:31 +0000

I can’t tell if this is a serious comment or not. The whole reason I wrote this is because of ranked matches being fucked over by the party chat.

I don’t want party chat removed, I want it only available if people are NOT playing ranked matches.

By: knucklez

knucklez — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:15:43 +0000

agree 100% xbox live is completely destroyed because of this. the whole concept of co-op or team play is kind of stupid when 3 people in a 5 person team are in seperate private chats and cant communicate with eachother. you might aswell be playing coop with the computer. and if you dont have a friends list of like 300 people by now youre gona be hearing crickets 90% of the time you play.

its like psn at this point. nxe is excellent but that little tidbit absolutely destroyed the community aspect of live. meeting new people and such.

rip xbox live

By: Pine

Pine — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:04:04 +0000

Ever heard of ranked matches? You should really try it!

What an idiotic article! I wouldn’t play on XBL if the party feature was removed!

By: Taro88

Taro88 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:05:58 +0000

I thought you could change the party from “party chat” to “game chat” which basically disables the party communications and lets you chat with people not in your party.

By: JT

JT — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:58:57 +0000

I would really like to know what is wrong with some of you people and your idiotic reply’s to this guys article, he presents his argument in a very mature thought out manner, and all he gets in return is L2P n00b, seriously. Ever since NXE every game I’ve played is utterly silent the entire time. Objective games are a waste of time without a full premade party and when playing by yourself you will find you will be yelling at no one most of the time. NXE HAS ruined competitive multiplayer and will continue to until something is done.

By: succadoc

succadoc — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:53:53 +0000

i totally agree with this article its proven man i shot a guy in gears blew his friken head off next think i know all 4 of his buddies are running jamming their lancers down my throat it does not produce a fun gaming experience when someone is cheating, yes i agree its fun when you are playing single player games like i was playing hitman and a buddy of mine was playing fallout that is great we talked and still played the game but the fact is when people are cheating it does not produce a fun gaming enviorment

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:15:43 +0000

I think the point that’s missed is that I don’t like talking to people who I don’t know. It might sound lame, but I’d rather have a party chat set up with all my friends than be forced to talk to a bunch of idiots (like many of the people commenting on your post).

By: thricedeviate

thricedeviate — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:34:07 +0000

haha true, I remember a XBL update before NEX came out…and well basically every one couldn’t get a game in CoD4 ( connection interrruptions etc;)…when I went to the CoD4 forums so see wtf? they posted saying that the new XBL patch/update whatever it was at the time was causing all these connection issues and M$ was working on it…

I guess that’s what happens when you don’t beta test things -_-…they don’t have enough money to do that I suppose…*cough*

By: MakoXL

MakoXL — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:45:35 +0000

but at least people can say things like ‘I have the flag, cover me’ etc

By: Noir

Noir — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:38:00 +0000

We were just playing last night and it became an issue since we were not all playing the same game. A few of us were on COD:WAW, one was on COD:4 and another was on Rainbow Six. The two who were not playing with the rest were being obnoxious and loud. Now we have a rule that if you’re not on the same game, you’re not allowed in the party.