Microsoft Removing ‘Cheating’ Cross Game Chat
Sorry, Party Chat. I get these confused all the time.Published 02/11/2009 at 8:00 by nofi
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Activision appear to have got their own way with Modern Warfare 2 (again) as the previously universal Party Chat – the built in tool that lets you chat with your friends regardless of game or team – is being removed to prevent cheating if the image below is to be believed. Basically, if you’re in a Party Chat when you start playing the latest Call of Duty the message will pop up saying that if you want to continue, you’ll need to be in the Game Chat (which will then obviously cancel your private Party Chat).
Although the PS3 version doesn’t yet have this feature, there’s not a chance I’ll personally be going online with the 360 version if I can’t stay in a private chat lobby – I don’t handle screaming kids particularly well and for whatever reason the PS3 still seems to be reasonably nob-free online. Still, an interesting idea – Party Chat has, in the past, been used to ‘infiltrate’ enemy teams with the microphone conversation allowing dead opposing team members to indentify targets. I’ll stick to Liam ramming me off the road in Forza, then, and get MW2 for the PS3.
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Dexter17 | 02/11/2009 16:08
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Modern Warfare is slowly turning into the biggest game ever.
Bigger than GTA IV, anyone?
gazzagb | 02/11/2009 16:08
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I think that if/when PS3 gets cross-game chat, it will be banned in certain games. This could easily be abused in say clan matches where players just spectate to report positions of one team to another.
Roynaldo | 02/11/2009 16:22
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Yes, thats exactly what I was trying to say.
CCasey123 | 02/11/2009 16:19
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Oh dear, This was one of the main reasons I preordered MW2 for the 360. Unless Infinity Ward create a way to further break down the ingame chat, private conversations with friends will be open for everyone to hear.
mynameisblair | 02/11/2009 17:04
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I mean sure its fine if you are all playing the same game.
But what if say, my friend was playing Forza and I wanted to chat with him?
Isn’t that the main feature of Part/Cross Game Chat?
This really isn’t a good choice… defeats the purpose.
BIGAL-1992 | 02/11/2009 17:33
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I agree, putting up with those idiot kids while playing online really does p**s me off at times.
JoshIsLOST | 02/11/2009 19:15
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This has got to be the worst thing that has ever been created, the whole point of Party Chat is to get away from all those childish 10 year olds that have high pitched voice and shout down the mic “Your Momma”, I can’t believe they would do this… this has to be fake.
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 02/11/2009 20:36
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Agreed. The main reason my friends who have 360’s (I have a PS3) consider Xbox superior is because they can silence out the little ****s who scream down the mic when playing Call of Duty, but they can still speak to their mates who are on the same game with them (along with people on other games of course).
If Microsoft do this there will be some major uproar and annoyance guarenteed.
Deathbrin | 02/11/2009 20:44
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Tbh the text/message doesn’t look any “official” to me. Not really a formal language.