Unveil at GDC with a blowout and release date at E3.
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Mute is a per-game basis, bro.
This sentiment is profoundly stupid.
So listening to a 10 year old call me a ****er while music blares in the background while a baby screams due to their dog eating it ... should be forced?
I know that would never happen, but I know I'm not alone when I saw the early days of XBox live were some of the best because people were talking in games. Now everyone is in a party and it's a ghost town. I would at least like playlists in online games that require a microphone, and party chat is banned.
No. I still use Skype on a regular basis. But not all my PSN friends are on Skype -- nor would I necessarily want to share my Skype details. Sometimes there is a convenience to party -- as not everyone has a laptop next to them. And, of course, if you have a laptop headset -- you are losing out on some of the game sound.
Yup. There were game modes in CoD (ones with spectator modes after death) where Party Chat was disabled.
I don't disagree. I haven't paid for Live in quite a while -- but having party chat is a trade-off. However, you could easily invite a random player from your team to your chat for the duration of the round. If you like him -- add him. If you don't -- kick him. There have been numerous times where it was just me and a friend in chat -- either I'd send a FR or receive an FR and respond accordingly. You could easily leave your party -- yell in game -- then return to your party.
I've never ONCE played a pug where the entire group focused and worked together in any game. Nobody does the right thing anyhow. There's a reason myself and my 1 BF buddy are top of the list every game and win best squad even against squads of 4.
You dont think they will announce until November? That's the release window i'm looking at. I say GDC for some videos/unveiling and E3 for the official hands-on blowout and release date announced.
Yup. My friends and I are discussing scholarly interpretations of T.S. Eliot's Wasteland while playing Rush. Oh, no, wait -- that's right -- WE AREN'T. What you'll hear in my party chat is salty, salty language and plenty of strategy. I care that my friends live -- not x420xkushx -- or other randoms on my side. And how many people actually listen to some douchebag yelling out orders in-game? I mute people like that. You are making the same stupid argument that people make about xgame chat ruining SP games: "Uh, why would you want your friends talking over cutscenes and games like Journey?" Oh, uh, I didn't know xgame chat was mandatory. Just don't be in a party if that's an experience you don't want. Here are the arguments against an optional feature people want:
I have a Vita, but features like Party Chat and Messages have been implemented horribly on the Vita so I almost forgot about it.
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Games have been using LZW/ZLIB compression derivatives for disk-data since the PS1. It's been pretty much standard from PS2 generation (and basically free, from processing perspective).miladesn said:
Latter is more feasible than the former.