MS Gives Devs Option to Remove Private Chat from Upcoming Titles

Saaking - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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Nuri - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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kaveti6616 - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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pixelsword - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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El_Colombiano - 34 days 7 hours ago

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

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Sarcasm - 34 days 7 hours ago

They are making so it's not 'mandatory'

Maybe they feel it's hindering some game development.

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ReservoirDog316 - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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Parapraxis - 34 days 7 hours ago

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

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Blaze929 - 34 days 7 hours ago

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?

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GRRiMREEAPeR - 34 days 6 hours ago

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.

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Xbox Avatars Shoe - 34 days 6 hours ago

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 >.<

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PimpHandHappy - 34 days 6 hours ago

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

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Ausbo - 34 days 5 hours ago

the examiner and everyone who work for it are jokes.

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

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Redempteur - 34 days 4 hours ago

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 ...

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The Lazy One - 34 days ago

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.

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Soda Popinsky - 33 days 23 hours ago

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.

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Lightsaber - 33 days 22 hours ago

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.

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corneliuscrust - 33 days 13 hours ago

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

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Alcon Caper - 33 days 12 hours ago

You're my hero.

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dib8rman - 33 days 11 hours ago

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

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Alcon Caper - 33 days 9 hours ago

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.

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dib8rman - 29 days 15 hours ago

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

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

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I am Legend - 34 days 7 hours ago

Exactly.

What is this world coming to ?

EDIT :

I did.

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StanLee - 34 days 7 hours ago

PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE COMMENTING. PEACE.

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Lightsaber - 33 days 20 hours ago

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

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Tjtroublemaker - 33 days 13 hours ago

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.

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drewboy704 - 34 days 4 hours ago

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.

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peeps - 33 days 18 hours ago

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

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blu_yu_away - 34 days 4 hours ago

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.

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drewboy704 - 34 days 3 hours ago

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.

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The Lazy One - 34 days ago

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.

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peeps - 33 days 18 hours ago

"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...

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GiantEnemyCrab - 34 days 6 hours ago

What happens in some situations is you have 2 players who are party chatting on opposite teams and giving away positions, etc. It ruins the game and I would call that cheating.

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Bzone24 - 34 days 6 hours ago

If you get shot and killed in real life, you aren't going to be telling your teammates anything.

That said, I'm not buying any game that has private chat disabled.

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mxpxboy - 34 days 6 hours ago

@GiantEnemyCrab

Why would someone do that? Maybe I'm just super more competitive than others, but I would be trying to help my team win against my friends team.

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StanLee - 34 days 5 hours ago

It happens so often you wouldn't believe. For example, I was playing Domination on Crash on Modern Warfare and my team has the C objective and spawn. I get a UAV and I see an enemy in the building above C but I also see there is a teammate there so I pay it no mind. I die and respawn and realize the red dot is still showing on the map in the building as well as my teammate so I run into the building only to be killed by the enemy huddled above the step with my teammate. People cheat. Whether it's to accomplish challenges or to be nuisances. People cheat.

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xoxideu - 34 days 5 hours ago

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Patchstation 3 - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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BX81 - 34 days 7 hours ago

Saaklicking fails!!

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No FanS Land - 34 days 7 hours ago

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.

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Saaking - 34 days 7 hours ago

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

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cyborg6971 - 34 days 6 hours ago

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.

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Tony Scarboni - 34 days 4 hours ago

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?

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No FanS Land - 34 days 3 hours ago

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

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2good4u2 - 33 days 16 hours ago

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.

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Upbeat - 33 days 12 hours ago

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Sm0k3y_Bac0n - 33 days 11 hours ago

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

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2good4u2 - 33 days 9 hours ago

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

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CaptainAmerica - 34 days 7 hours ago

shhhhhhh, STFU

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BX81 - 34 days 2 hours ago

@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.

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Lt_Skittles - 34 days 5 hours ago

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

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chrisulloa - 34 days 5 hours ago

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

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JeffGUNZ - 34 days 3 hours ago

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.

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BX81 - 33 days 7 hours ago

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

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TheTeam06 - 33 days 6 hours ago

It's a drunken cat.

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chrisulloa - 33 days 9 hours ago

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

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