I guess its good to avoid cheating but no party chat at all, there has to be another solution.

this is fucking bullshit...again. IW seem to have saved all of the shit news about MW2 to slip out un-noticed just before release.

Fairly sure that this was for specific playlists like Search & Destroy where cheating is common due to that feature. Team Deatmatch is fine.
Since the inclusion of Party Chat all I've heard from both Gears and COD players is how it leads to so much bullshit.
They've been asking for this since it came out.

Awesome journalism! Misleading titles rock and 8/9 people who commented before me didn't seem to read the whole 3 paragraphs. Please, keep adding to the hype and controversy on this shit eating title that I wish they release ASAP so it can stop jumping out of tin cans!

Oh man, how much more are they going to cut out of this game?

IW should worry we don't all buy L4D2 instead.

Thank GOD. Finally, competing can be fun again.

And I am almost sure I heard about this only being for S&D type games, not deathmatches.

I'm not Skype, Jim. You are :)

I highly doubt that there are enough cases of people cheating through party chat to warrant that being the reason to take it out of multiplayer games. After all, for FNF's and even just regular nights, it's not uncommon to have a lot of people playing one game together.

Something reeks of stupid here.

So people who really want to cheat will just have to switch to skype or cellphone, and honest people who just want to use xbox live party will be screwed. Brilliant.

Ahem, Infinity Ward, YOU'RE BLOWING IT.

RFOLCOPTER HA! Screw all you guys who love to cheat. Load a whiny babies you are!

I love how IW is screwing the game so badly.

I knew this game was going to suck :)

You're kinda retarded DTOID, it's only in S&D, a team based game.. Therefor preventing cheating... it's a good thing..

Hahah Dangsterr can see the future, everybody

The parties dont always put you on the same team. I logged on after my friends, then joined their party. Then i joined the game and it stuck me on the other team.

LOL

So you're saying that on the PC version, people on Teamspeak/Ventrilo playing together on a server, stacking a side is basically cheating? Your logic fails miserably.

Also, IW fails hard, once again. This definitely bring about the fall of this company.

I was actually curious if they were going to address this. Party Chat basically breaks Search & Destroy, where you can give your living teammates pointers about enemy positions from beyond the grave.

I will say that I would expect custom matches to make this optional, but I personally will not miss XBL party chat in this game. The in-game chat is sufficient, and the game is designed around it.

Hmm. Maybe I overreacted last post.

This is a bad thing, whatever way you look at it, since for starters it's idiotic that people in the same party should be split up, unless it's a majority (9/16 players) but I doubt many people go into MM with 9+ people parties. Since this is essentially attempting to prevent people talking in parties, it's just stupid that they're using this to avoid fixing the problem of team stacking. I mean hell, there's death streaks now so I would have thought the playing field would be more balanced in MW2.

However. This isn't going to stop anyone buying the game, and it will annoy the minority. It's only on the blogs etc people will complain, and it's not necessarily about the lack of party chat, it's just about the removal of a feature of the console which isn't that important to 99% of the userbase.

Of course, I'm going to put in my mandatory speech about Dedicated Servers on the PC version, the fact that they tried similar restrictions there and it's really biting them in the arse.

If this isn't only an option, I will be very displeased. I talk to my friends all the time in party chats, usually when we're playing completely different games. It's just not the 360 without Kilimanjaroo to talk to. =[

no matter what activison or iw do this game will sell millions in 2 days

I am Kimochi Sama and I support this decision. Players should communicate with their team mates and cooperate in order to achieve victory instead of being distracted by "friends" who are not in the same game.

Are they trying to gimp every version of the game?

Can't they just ban players on opposing teams from joining party chat instead of killing the whole thing? It doesn't seem like it would be that hard.

How serious is Modern Warfare multiplayer? Isn't it common consensus that the game is imbalanced anyway? I don't think party chat will make any difference. Doesn't matter to me, I guess.

@Blasto: Modern Warfare tends to attract racist conservatives more than 12 year olds.