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Xbox Live Party Chat – The Death of Conversation within the Game Lobby

James Woodcock takes a look at the 'Party Chat' feature of Xbox Live that has been key to causing a silent lobby in many online titles.

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CrimsonEngage4486d ago (Edited 4486d ago )

More like a blessing. No longer do i have to listen to little shit's playing rap (which is crap music anyways) over their mics.

Let it die, not a single f*ck will be given.

MetalProxy4486d ago

Blessing? How is a new person to xbox live suppose to meet anybody new when there isnt anybody to talk to?
Sooooo theres silent lobbys on xbox live? Thats IMPOSSIBLE according to some loyalist.

koehler834486d ago

I can't be the only person who believes it to be abnormal to actually want to converse with complete strangers.

BX814486d ago

Teens love it for some reason. I always say talking on the mic just because you have one is the definition of @sshole!

StanLee4486d ago

I've had my communications setting set to private since day 1. I don't hear anyone in public lobbies. Unless you're on my friends list I can hear you and you can't hear me. I don't use XBox Live to meet friends. I have convinced so many of my real life friends to get an XBox that I have a sufficient friends list.

Captain Qwark 94486d ago (Edited 4486d ago )

nope that makes two of us, i always party chat with my freinds. ive never had much success meeting decent people in gaming lobbies so i dont really care. also most strangers dont want/care to work as a team so there is really no point

party chat, the controller, and the dashboard are what makes me like my 360 more than my ps3, despite the ps3 having more features

sGIBMBR4486d ago

I don't think I could live without party chat anymore, it's such a blessing!

I even use party chat on the 360 when playing on my PlayStation.

Captain Qwark 94486d ago

lol my buddies and i do that once in a while too.

pandaboy4486d ago (Edited 4486d ago )

haha, you inadvertently solved the problem that has plagued PSN for years. For best results use your xbox while gaming online on ps3!

Parapraxis4486d ago (Edited 4486d ago )

or Skype..that's what me & my friends use when gaming on PS3.
(as an added bonus I listen to music from my entire music library on PC when I chat with Skype)

Parapraxis4485d ago

3 disagrees...for what??
man you N4G kids crack me up.

Hufandpuf4486d ago

I like meeting different people in lobbies, that's how I make more friends on XBL. If I used party chat ALL THE TIME, I wouldn't have met the people I play games with regularly.

BuffMordecai4486d ago (Edited 4486d ago )

I always find it funny when someone tries to talk on xbox live and then somebody tells them to shut up. If you didn't want to talk, take off your damn mic. I can understand when somebody is being obnoxious, but when you seen a lobby full of people with mics and no one is talking, you kind of wonder why they have mics at all.

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader821d 1h ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Microsoft Opening Xbox Mobile Game Store in July

The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."

Jin_Sakai3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

“Bond adds that they will start on the web”

This will go nowhere.

Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.

MrDead3d ago

The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.

The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.

XiNatsuDragnel3d ago

Good luck with this even it might not succeed.

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