Didn't IW, after saying no dedicated servers, say something to the effect of 'matchmaking is good cause then you can join your friends in a party and go from game to game opposed to having to get everyone to join the same server'.

Kinda destorys that.

That wont be any fun. But not cause i want to mess with other players, but cause most of my friends hate the COD games and dont play them but if we are all on we like to chat even if we arent playing the same game.

this is boouule shit. I love the convienience of parties.

This completely destroys all the current fun I have playing with friends in cod4, i mean i sometimes join the other team and mess around but mostly use party chat to get other friends to join up during a gaming session.

Hahahahahaha.
Hahaha.
Ha.

Infinity Ward are fucking idiots. Fucking up the 360 AND the PC versions by removing features deliberately? Something smells up to me.

I don't like Party Chat.

Stops everyone from communicating in game as they are too busy talking to their friends (wait.... that sounds odd).

Also if your in a Party Chat trying to play a different game from the other people in the chat it becomes extremely annoying.

sorry to be a dick jim but,
"you're Skype"
correction
"your Skype"

also, fuck this game. if you have to play it for the love of all that is good and just, pirate or steal a copy.

I know plenty of people that love party chat but hate it just as much because of all the cheating. I personally don't care at all and find the cheating adds a bit of fun to the chat when I'm screaming at my friends that someone's around the corner or a grenade was throw near them xD

I bet IW chose to do this because of fan request. That's just my guess.

Wait, so what you're saying here is they're trying to make this a co-operative, team-based experience versus another team?

That's crazy.

I am skype

Lol

I wish they would do this for more games, like Gears of War 2. I wish it would just automatically switch your party to game chat as soon as a ranked match starts, then switch you back when it's done.

meh not a big deal for me.

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.