Maybe to some, but to me it's true and I'm not going to lie to look good on Neogaf. Voice chat is not a feature I care about, and not having it may help some games.
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Starwars Battlefront doesn't have voice chat on console either
- Thread starter gossi
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That's like your opinion man. I'd still like the ability to freaking chat with people in the game, especially in some of the objective based modes.
I can't stand people who try to justify shit decisions that take away player choice.
Bizmarkie76
Banned
EA is an absolute trash publisher and company in general. It's obvious they've pushed DICE into releasing a sub par product with missing options and modes. I refuse to buy another EA product after I pre purchased Rory Mcilroy for PS4 (Digitally. Fuck) and got an absolute shit game in return. As far as im concerened they robbed me for $80 Canadian and can go fuck themselves.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Zen_Arcade
Banned
That's dumb. I've met some cool people and had some funny interactions with random voice chat.
And as others have said it's beneficial for objective based game modes.
And as others have said it's beneficial for objective based game modes.
Phantasmal Repose
Member
While I never cared for in game voice chat, excluding it seems like a poor choice. They should've just given people an option to have it on or off.
DICE actually got more time to work on it than they initially did. It was originally slated for a summer release alongside the film, but Harrison Ford's injury on set pushed both the film and game to the end of the year.
It has be a head-level decision by Disney or EA unless DICE just realized how few people actually use public voice chat nowadays and wanted to put the resources behind other things in the game.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
I only use party chat so it's not an issue for me.
NullPointer
Member
Harrison Ford, doing his part for gaming
HerbertBirdsfoot
Member
Nice. My 9 year old daughter might play it then.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
This is likely why they did it.
Neuromancer
Member
Fine with me. Random players are, generally speaking, raw assholes. Maybe if online shooter culture wasn't so toxic DICE wouldn't have had to make this decision. They actually want to encourage people to play their game after all.
Totally agree. The new movie and this new game is Disney's first big outing after purchasing LucasArts. They want to start off on the right foot by being a "safe" option for parents who have children that game. Maybe that's why 1313 was cancelled.
But not everyone who has a mic plugged in is like that, though. That's why the mute function exists, so you can mute specific people, and a "mute all" exists only as a complement.
The person I was answering to says that there's no need to have game chat when party chat exists, but for party chat to work you need to add persons individually, which means adding 19 people manually for Battlefront.
Just takes some a bit of time to realize it.
What a great shooter community this will be! Elementary school kids and all these hard core FPS guys. Awesome. They will be the talk of the playground.
Yep I think this game will have wide appeal. It's actually suitable for kids vs the more brutally violent and bloody other FPS games all the kids usually want (and too many get). NOT hearing random angry chat online during the game will only help the gameplay experience for almost everyone!
Moon_frogger
Member
Just like Nintendo.....except Nintendo doesn't have party chat which is all anybody uses these days. It took me forever to realize hardline even had functional voice chat cause nobody uses it.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Options > Voice chat > Mute All
Why couldn't we just have this...
Why couldn't we just have this...
Why are folks defending the lack of in game voice chat? I think some of the most fun times I had in an online shooter is teaming up with randoms who genuinely want to win and communicating with them AND not even knowing them. This notion of "2 year olds" is BS. We aren't 2 year olds are we? Besides most of the people I have become friends with are those that I randomly met in lobbies and were cool people. This was online gaming - trash talking with people sometimes raging other times laughing.
Last gen I gamed on the ps3 - alot of CoD MP. Those lobbies were so live it was awesome. Yes you had to sometimes mute the little kid but that was so infrequent. I bought a 360 and I remember playing BLOPs I. I was so annoyed that there wasn't one person talking in the lobby. I later realized it was because of the private party system. Those lobbies were complete ghost towns. I stopped playing MP on 360 because of it.
Last gen I gamed on the ps3 - alot of CoD MP. Those lobbies were so live it was awesome. Yes you had to sometimes mute the little kid but that was so infrequent. I bought a 360 and I remember playing BLOPs I. I was so annoyed that there wasn't one person talking in the lobby. I later realized it was because of the private party system. Those lobbies were complete ghost towns. I stopped playing MP on 360 because of it.
GavinUK86
Member
eh, i'm ok with no voice chat. i never use it anyway.
12 year olds giggling?
Imagine what they'd be saying if there was voice chat.
12 year olds giggling?
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
The "I don't use it so whatever" responses in this thread are just like those in the server browser thread. Just because you didn't find it useful doesn't mean other don't. I play BF exclusively through the server browser.
FullMetaltech
Member
Anyone know the rating for this game?
March of the Crabs
Member
I'm gonna hop on the "I don't use that" train but it sucks for people who do. Weird thing to exclude. DICE should develop for Wii U by the sounds of it.
privitsan02
Member
If people did it for Splatoon...
At least the consoles have a party system at OS level.
Best wishes.
CountAntonius
Member
People against voice chat should have the option to turn it off. Why they would cheer for less options for everyone else has always baffled me.
Being that this is a game where I think that you will play with randoms rather than a full team of your own friends, the option should be there. Period.
I brought up in one of the threads that this game might have short legs due to there really being no strategy and I was countered with a post that there is strategy and that the team needs to communicate to get objectives done.
Welp..
I brought up in one of the threads that this game might have short legs due to there really being no strategy and I was countered with a post that there is strategy and that the team needs to communicate to get objectives done.
Welp..
Really makes me mad. 'Hey because I don't use thing, turn it off for everyone else'. For fucks sake, if you don't use voice chat, don't use voice chat. Click mute all and stick to party chat. But hey, let's just fuck over everyone else who might want to use it.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Yup 👊
joecanada
Member
Not even close but I will enjoy wasting the non communication squads nonetheless.
More squad wipe ribbons for everyone
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
i see a lot of 2-year-olds on here winning arguments. ba-dum-ching
Melon Husk
Member
So people find their Battlefront buddies in... Black Ops III?
This is just bizarre, at least there's the all/team -chat. Never go full Nintendo.
aspiegamer
Member
It's still pretty bullshit, but I can imagine a PR explanation of more "family friendly" or something. Don't want your 9-year-old kid who got a PS4 for Christmas logging in for the first time hearing god-knows-what with the parents still around! That'd look bad! Gotta wait until the evil parent cracks and buys them GTA for the naughty language to come out!
This is far, far more likely. Or a lack of interest in screwing with the network play at all since they seem to have it pretty good already. It's a bit of a gamble but I'm sure marketing did their fancy math to determine likely lost sales versus whatever metrics they think make them the most money.