in a few words------- Annoying Morons and little 5yr olds cussing everyone out for no reason, broke mics, loud music, other team B****ing, to name a few. beside with the people i play with are team is always full not allowing others to be on our team so party chat would make since for me and my friends.

One of the main reasons why i want party chat on the PS3, is cause of games like battlefield. Bad company 2 and 1943 both had non-functioning voice chat when they first launched and dice took a very long time to patch it. I have alot of friends that play multiplayer FPSs on the ps3 and no voice chat totally killed it for us.

oh and also because of games like armored core that dont have any chat feature.

No party chat sucks. Sometimes I just can't deal with the immaturity that is Xbox Live.

Look at the biased people talking about how party chat is terrible. Read what GWAVE wrote. Try and digest the ignorance he is spewing. Party Chat allows for friends who are playing together to join a group and not have to listen to the morons from other teams taunting them. In Halo 3 in the matchmaking lobby when all the players were assembled, members of the opposing team would often shout offensive, senseless taunts at me and my teammates.

Sure we could mute them, which is a great feature, and what Party Chat did was extend that feature further so that a team of people can be in a private group throughout their gaming session and only listen to each other. Since me and my friends amounted to 4 people on Halo 3, we never left out any potential teammates. It's not as if there was one stranger who joined our team and could not hear us due to party chat. Now, if that has happened to some people, then I am sorry. It is an obvious drawback when a group of teammates can leave you left out.

Here's the contradiction of the fanboy argument. Apparently, the Sony fanboys on the top of the post seem to think that communicating with your teammates equates to cheating. "Hey all of those guys who are against us are in a party chat. I wonder what they're talking about. Hey! They must be CHEATING!!!" Really? Does talking to your own teammates about the situation in the game constitute cheating? Because, haha, I thought that was called TEAMWORK!!! You moron fanboys. You have nothing better to do than talk crap about the console that isn't your preferred choice. And let's get something else out of the way. What if one of your friends is on the opposing team, and he wants to help your team win by colluding with you? Does removing the party chat feature really make much of a difference in that situation? I think not. I think that your friend can sabotage his teammates by throwing grenades near them during a battle, or he can just go out and let opponents kill him. A simple telephone call can suffice in that kind of cheating. Party chat is not the feature that really causes this to happen.

Removing party chat does not prevent CHEATING. The main goal is purely up to the developer. Maybe they want to make sure that no one will ever be left out of team communication, as can happen in situations where a person playing online against strangers will find himself left out of the party. In situations such as this, however, he still has the ability to send a message to one of the people in the party and ask to be invited in. And if that doesn't work (HERE COMES THE BURN), then his experience on XBL will be a lot like the experience I have always had playing on PSN. That's right Sony fanboys. Just remember that. The communication abilities on LIVE are at worst on the same level as PSN, where 3 quarters of the people on Unchated 2 BETA (my experience) didn't have a mic or chose not to speak at all.

Another great thing about Party Chat has always been the ability to talk to multiple people who are not playing the same game as me. It's an enhanced version of private chat because more than 2 people can be in a party. I remember the days when I played Bioshock while my friends were playing Halo, and I could always communicate with them, you know, just for the hell of it. Of course, it's not a necessity. It is, however, one of the features that makes XBL feel more cohesive. Now, we can't really cheat in those instances because a plasmid that I pick up in Bioshock isn't going to help my friend win a match in Halo.

I agree with Codeman420. No one capping and insulting you for no reason other than to be a d#$ck.

as a basis to downplay xbox live obviously have never used it.

i agree with blocking party chat during online games that require team strategy. for example, in CHROMEHOUNDS, one of the game's features is capturing combas (satellite towers) that increase the range of your radio with your teammates.

the side with the most combas could check enemy positions on map and talk farther, likewise you could take over enemy combass and prevent them from speaking to each other using radio. it was strategy based.

as soon as party chat was made available, everyone forgot about combass. it turned into free for all battles.

THAT is one example of party chat being exploited. however, nothing beats me playing SF2, my friend playing ninja gaiden, my other friend playing Ace combat 6, and all of us chatting about random crap AT THE SAME TIME.

PARTY CHAT IS A GOOD THING WHEN USED IN THIS SITUATIONS, AND THESE SITUATIONS OUTWEIGH THE 4-5 GAMES WHERE IT COULD BE USED FOR EXPLOITATIon

i used party chat on my 360 to play uncharted 2 online with some friends......

it should be turned off for ranked matches.

I never understood the appeal for party chat. If I'm playing a game, why would I want to talk to my friend who's playing a completely different game? It's just a feature for casuals to chit chat while their team mates are probably tired of their lack of focus. Play the game or get out lol.

i think ms will make playing online for free, to a degree. they will leave p2p for silvers, add dedicaited to gold alond with p2p, and add a few more dash features to gold

I quite like Party chat and I don't use it to cheat. Sometimes, you just don't want to listen to other people on live.