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MW2 to restrict party chat
Written by Craig Anderson
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With the launch ever imminent rumours have been flying around all over the place. Well what's one more going to do? According to a post on the NeoGaf forums, Activision have taken a stance against cheaters and are restricting some game modes to exclude the party chat feature.

Although a little blurred you can make out the writing; "This multiplayer session requires that you be in the game chat channel. If you don't switch, you can't play. Switch to the game chat channel now?"

If true this move has it's benefits, but it also has its downsides. Benefits being people will no longer be able to tell friends where the enemies are once dead. Negatives being that most gamers just play to play and chat with their friends, rather than utilise the party feature for cheating purposes.

What do you make of this move by Activision to clamp down against cheaters? Please refrain from any fan boy related comments!

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Community Comments
#1 Anonymous  Console Guide 19:36 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
This is so annoying! Let's hope it's on serious game types or something like that.
#2 Anonymous  Console Guide 19:42 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Kill all the cheaters and hackers and banned there asses from xbox live. F..king cheating bitches.
#3 Ben  Console Guide 19:44 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Well generally speaking everybody is going to be on this game with there friends with in the lobby, who needs any other game?
#4 Ben (again)  Console Guide 19:45 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Well if you friends ain't on modern warfare 2 in the lobby with you (rythm) there not real friends!
#5 Ben (once more)  Console Guide 19:46 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha the ps3 fanboys are like what's party chat.. It's non excisting on ps3 ;)
#6 Doddzilla  Console Guide 20:06 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
I love that idea and hate it at the same time. I can't tell you how many times I've wished for somthing like this. But now that it's here....I don't know. I can see this heplful in s&d, as stated.
#7 Tony  Console Guide 20:14 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
We dont need party chat. Only cheaters would like that! One, why would i wanna hear someone else playing another game when im playing a different game.. I would rather hear d person im playing with. Thats lame..
#8 Anonymous  Console Guide 20:19 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Im not that big of a fan of MW but this is somewhat stupid because now people get to listen to annoying little kids play this game
#9 Craig  Console Guide 20:50 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
It makes since with game types like "search an destroy". Like the article said it would only be for certain game "types". I'm all for it because when the party system came out, it defeated the point behind search and destroy.
#10 ShoBiz -   Lvl. 1 Monster 21:19 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Yeah. I never use party chat, and I hate when people cheat. I think I remember hearing that there would be in-lobby mic mute this time around for all the annoying kids.
#11 tom  Console Guide 21:44 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
xbox sucks
#12 matteo  Console Guide 22:02 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Wats the *****en point!!! I like xbox because of that fetuire and now if they take it away it will be boring. Wtf y cant people just fil a compaint and block them for a couple of days!!

7 more days !!!!!

Every 1 vote for this ***** to stop,
Dedecated player : matteo
#13 Xbox  Console Guide 22:02 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Ps3 will outsell xbox at the end of 2010. Mark my words.
#14 Bens mum  Console Guide 22:02 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Bens a twat, we can have chat on ps3 but it ain't called gay party chat. Ps. Yeah ya mum and ur dad. Party chats a stupid idea on that sort iv game anyway, well done IW
#15 SRB o AsSaSsiN  Console Guide 22:03 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
That is bull$hit, so I can't speak 2 my friends like I do in cod 5 waw, f**king hell. I think that because of this they will have less people playing the game.
#16 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:09 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
And ur sisters mum
#17 Whatman  Console Guide 22:22 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
That is so gay
#18 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:27 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Why do some of you ruin articles with posh comments. Stop bring such a fan boy twat. Each consoles have there good and bad sides. Who cares if someone prefers the PS3 or vice versa. It's just someone opinion.

Anyway, back to the article. I'll need to see this in action before I pass judgement.
#19 Ben  Console Guide 22:28 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha I have a ps3 free with my phone contract, what a pile of *****
#20 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:30 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
*pish
#21 jake  Console Guide 22:41 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
This option only appears in hardcore team death match
#22 Hey  Console Guide 22:44 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Really I talk to my friends and now we are going to hear so many voices and maybe even 5 year oldes I just want to talk to my friends while playing cod f this idea

#23 MayContainNutz  Console Guide 23:15 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
They should make it so you can join party chat with people who aren't playing mw2. =]
#24 Whatever  Console Guide 23:34 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
Ok, if they're blocking party chat, fine. But how about kicking team killers, banning spawn tubing and all the other modding related things that the real cheaters do. And deduct a rank from people who quit early just cos they got shot
#25 Jamaican Hype  Console Guide 23:50 02 Nov 2009 GMT  
@Whatever
Allow Deducting A Rank Just Because Someone Left The Game Early, Thats One Of The Good Things About Call Of Duty; You Aren't Tied Down By Deductable Ranking Systems Like What Halo And Gears Has.
#26 Harvaldo  Console Guide 00:05 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Well aslong as they keep to just s&d and hardcore games then it won't be too bad so we can still party chat in normal games like team death and headquarters.
#27 Nickba  Console Guide 00:50 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
This better just be for search and destroy
#28 PS3codwawplatin  Console Guide 03:25 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
...and that's why I have a ps3
#29 Anonymous  Console Guide 03:31 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
i dont care how highly anticipated this game is but it will not beat Uncharted 2. Uncharted 2's campaign can not b beat...however the new 3rd person may make me buy this game
#30 troydg84  Console Guide 05:30 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
I can see the negatives and understand why some gamers are upset by this. That said, the Call of Duty franchise games are some of the most serious and involved games currently available. It seems this is a move to push that type of game play Even farther. It is a distraction to talk with friends while playing if you are not on the same mission with the same objectives and it gives friends the ability to give one another a heads up on what's to come. I like this move by Activision, it is not
their intention to upset the buyer only to make the game even more realistic.
#31 troydg84  Console Guide 05:50 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
For all of you with iPhones there is a free application with a countdown to the release of the new game. Accurate to the second. Kinda cheesy but I'm that stoked to play it!
#32 Jason  Console Guide 06:00 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Well I never use party chat anyways but when my friends invite I do but I don't talk at all. Anyways I'm laughing at ps3 gamers right now because they are just thinking "What the ***** is party chat? Where is it?" LOL
#33 Anonymous  Console Guide 06:47 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Ha ha ha look at comment 31 what a fag. Uncharted was old before it came out and as soon as mw2 comes out it's going to me like uncharted never existed. As for party chat it's a good thing f..k all the dick sucking cheaters.
#34 Therebel  Console Guide 07:21 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
@Jason
WTF are you talking about? Ps3 is getting chat soon. Haven't you seen that news before already?
#35 xX imPrEzZa Xx  Console Guide 08:01 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Hey guyz, u know wut sux? Teh PS3.

But seriously, it's a piece of s**t.
#36 xX imPrEzZa Xx  Console Guide 08:05 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Hey PS3 fags, played Ballaof Gay Tony yet? How about Lost and Damned? What about those exclusive map packs the 360 is getting? Does it feel horible to have a Japanese man laugh at you, because you bought his piece of crap console?
#37 But realy....  Console Guide 10:51 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Uncharted 2 is out?
#38 Anonymous  Console Guide 12:20 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
cod fanboys....bunch of faggots let me tell ya
#39 Manik Monty  Console Guide 13:00 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Hold on people. Before we assemble the friggin lynch mob let's look at what IW are doing. They are giving us choice. It seems it will be down to us to use the feature or not. You can still talk in party, but certain matches where party chat is used by cheats to exploit the game will be a non starter. I think they should be applauded for giving us the gamer more options.
#40 CoD Fanboy  Console Guide 16:20 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Yes they should restrict that ish especially for game mode  S&D...I don't want teammate giving out my position or other teammates position in order for his friends team to win...believe me I hv seen this happen a lot not just on MW1 but also on W@W S&D...my teammate watches his friend who is on the other team defuse/plaint the bomb without doing anything to prevent it and they get the win or having to be in a building with UAV jammer on just waitin on this last player to come to me but for some reason they know the exact place to throw the grenade at...so yes they should restrict that ish!
#41 Lerxst  Console Guide 17:05 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
It would surely only be for hardcore modes, as you have the killcam in core matches.
#42 brand1210  Console Guide 18:14 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
@troydg842, iv got that and I update my comments on psn to match. They love it I love it it's all good
#43 Tony  Console Guide 18:40 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
#38 xX imPrEzZa Xx3 Nov '09 00:05
Hey PS3 fags, played Ballaof Gay Tony yet? How about Lost and Damned? What about those exclusive map packs the 360 is getting? Does it feel horible to have a Japanese man laugh at you, because you bought his piece of



Dude if u do ur research!! Yall just get it first cuz yall pay To play online. We just get it two months after yall get it and for free..
#44 Anonymous  Console Guide 20:18 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
Yeah f..k all the cheaters get rid of that party chat ***** for mw2.
#45 Anonymous  Console Guide 20:35 03 Nov 2009 GMT  
This is all the hackers fault!! What's the point of making ur kill so high n stuff??? Knowone gives a ***** we just wanna play with are frends and chat!!!
#46 xX imPrEzZa Xx  Console Guide 05:59 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Yo Tony! 360 gets the map packs first! Go suck a cock you PS3 fanboy faggot. You don't even have the GTA expansions.
#47 Tony  Console Guide 06:38 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Go sux on d ring of fire u 360 fag boy! And waste ur stupid money to keep getting ur cheap as console fix. Fag boy
#48 xX imPrEzZa Xx  Console Guide 08:43 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
By the way, Tony, once again you need to get your facts straight. The Xbox 360 gets free repairs. *****ing owned.
#49 @impreZa  Console Guide 11:54 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Xbox is a failure. Just think about it , y they didn't sold more than 50m right now. Even though it is more cheaper tthan ps3. Now ps3 is cheaper. It will outsold the xbox.
#50 Tony  Console Guide 15:57 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha why they get free repairs? Oh thats right cuz there *****en crap!!
#51 Tony  Console Guide 16:12 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Why would i buy something that i know is going to break? Thats just waste of money. And not a lot of people got warranty on those gay console! 
#52 Anonymous  Console Guide 17:36 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Wow Tony, you really love your console! I mean, REALLY love you console. Is that why you can't spell because you can't write stupid ass threads and ***** the little Ethernet hole on your ps3? Get back to me and let me know. We need to think of a name for that. Like beastiality but your *****ing consoles instead of animals. Hm....
#53 Anonymous  Console Guide 19:51 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Tony your a fag and stick the ps3 up your ass no you will enjoy that won't you. F..king dick sucking bitch
#54 Callum  Console Guide 20:33 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
It's not gunnah be tht bad but it's gunnah get annoying add me on ps3 if u go on cod my
Psn is calbonaggasaci16
#55 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:34 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
To all ps3 owners anone want a game on forza 3.. No, gears of war 2.. No, gta expansions.. No or mabye left 4 dead.. No, well f**k off then
#56 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:46 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
#54 you can bet that "Little Tony" fits in that Ethernet hole. His boyfriends probably jealous as hell. No surprises though the 360 is better for fu***** than playing.
#57 Tony  Console Guide 22:59 04 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha all does *****en games dont f u c k e n hit no more. All does games are *****en grabage. Just like xbox. Trash. So go stick that xbox up ur ass!!
#58 Xbox  Console Guide 00:10 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Xbox does not good exclusive game that's coming up. Bcause it a crap. Left 4 dead is coming up to pc so it's not exclusive. Gta expansion will be release on ps3 @ mid 2010 bcause it's time exclusive.
#59 Anonymous  Console Guide 02:20 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha I got just the reaction out of this " Tony" dweeb. I love you.
#60 Anonymous  Console Guide 02:38 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
yeah tony ! totally agree with u man. Go PS3!
#61 Tony  Console Guide 02:51 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
I am actually mentally retarded. I give my ps3 anal, and it gives it right back. I bow down to the xbox. Btw my ps3 I really shot now because I shoved it up my asshole :)
#62 Anonymous  Console Guide 03:00 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Hahahahaha
#63 Tonys Boyfriend  Console Guide 03:01 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Why Tony!!?? I THOUGHT U LOVED ME!!!
#64 Tony  Console Guide 07:32 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha wow is that really how u got to act like a lil baby just cuz xbox sux! Wow really, just dont be hating cuz xbox is going down and ps3 .
#65 Tony  Console Guide 07:36 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Cm guide user i atleast show my name not
like ur p u s s y a$$..
#66 Spireite till i  Console Guide 07:41 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Tony they have named a xbox game after now because the ballad of gay tony shame you cant play it its XBOX exclusive at moment
#67 Ryan  Console Guide 10:57 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
To all ps3 fan boys your fags especialy you tony always writing bull***** trying to piss people off. Get a life u little pussy ass bitch. But your not and you just gonna write another stupid ass comment right know.
#68 PS3  Console Guide 11:05 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Hey guys, it's me! You friendly neighbourhood console PlayStation 3! Have you people played GTA BOGT yet? I haven't. Are you getting the map pack for MW2? I'm not, that's an Xbox exclusive. Fable 2 is amazing, along with Forza 3 and Gears of War. But I've only seen gameplay on YouTube :(

I'm PS3, and I just wish I had a good game to play.
#69 Xbox  Console Guide 11:59 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Well at least you have uncharted and infamous this year. Next year I have left 4 dead but it's not exclusive. And you have god of war mag and........ I.....am..... Not.... Feeling well..... Ihave swine flu......( red ring of death)
#70 LOL  Console Guide 12:36 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Forza 3 will be nothing compared to gt5. And also is that all the xbox exclusive? Fable, forza?
#71 Tony  Console Guide 16:46 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
How can u play a crap game on ur xbox if half d time yall having it repair.. Wow u call that a great console. Crap
#72 Tony  Console Guide 18:15 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Yeah thats right delete my other comment cm guide. P u s s y ass. Know are f u c k en games are better.. U delete my other cuz u didnt want ur crap xbox fagboys to see what i wrote. Pussy..
#73 Xbox suck  Console Guide 18:18 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Hey im a xbox fagboy! Wish i could play uncharted 2, or killzone 2 or grant tursimo 5, or resistance 1 n 2, or order god of war III, or play on playstation home. But my crap xbox dont have does.. Im stuck with a crapy xbox that f u cks up all d time, and gay graphics. And games that are boring now like halo, gear of war. Crap games and d ones are going
to be d same just crap. So please mircosoft make good games and a betta console
#74 Xbox suck  Console Guide 18:24 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Im tired of paying $50 bucks to play online and still receive lag..
#75 Anonymous  Console Guide 19:13 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Psn is free but still has less users than xbl. 
#76 Anonymous  Console Guide 19:18 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Boo hoo STFU! They are both great systems.
#77 xbox  Console Guide 19:37 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
U can recycle you dead xbox. I turn mine into toaster. It work great. Cuz it always overheat.
#78 Anonymous  Console Guide 21:21 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
At the end of the day Microsoft didn't want Sony taking over the living room and then threw all there money at the games industry. If Sony was to fold we would all lose out coz there would be no compertition and it'll just be the wii360, we all know which is the better quality console it's just a shame the richer company has got money to throw away. Rockstar got 50 million remember, they didn't say xbox is better, it's called a back hander
#79 Anonymous  Console Guide 21:30 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
Just as I thought silence
#80 Xbox suck  Console Guide 22:31 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
They think they have 50 million but there counting all the ones there fix not how many they got
#81 Xbox suck  Console Guide 22:34 05 Nov 2009 GMT  
If they have money then why they charge u money to pay online.. Thats right cuz they are losing by fixing all
those f u cking crap box that overheating and scratching the disc what a crap console... They shoulf have free online if they had money to throw away but they dont
#82 Anonymous  Console Guide 18:00 06 Nov 2009 GMT  
Lol at 78 i love xbox but gotta admit thats funny
#83 Anonymous  Console Guide 18:55 06 Nov 2009 GMT  
Ps3 online is SOOOO horrible and frustrating. I have ps3 but still pay to play xbox live. Hm...
#84 Anonymous  Console Guide 19:01 06 Nov 2009 GMT  
Wow I think I'm deleting cm guide just because of this gay ass thread. Retarded ass immature f u c king human f u c ks. Cm guide you really need to step in and kick some of yur rediculous users.... Like Tony.
#85 Tony  Console Guide 21:15 06 Nov 2009 GMT  
Go ahead delete.. Like anyone care if u delete dis app.. Just cuz people talk crap about xbox and it hurts ur feels u want them to delete them.. U talk s h i t 2 so why not they delete u to? Crying ass baby.
#86 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:03 06 Nov 2009 GMT  
For the love of God would it really hurt to
actually show the slightest bit of manners to oneanother. You won't get anywhere in life if you can't have a friendly conversation with someone. It's as simple as that. Just find something more constructive to do than argue with people you'll never meet. You have been gifted with a life that won't last forever so you should find a better use of your time. Please; for the sake of my sanity
#87 Anonymous  Console Guide 22:33 06 Nov 2009 GMT  
Haha Tony yur a deush. You should commit suicide
#88 @tony  Console Guide 02:03 07 Nov 2009 GMT  
U know that cmguide user is anonymous. It means there over5 people who is posting here using that. Anyway, ps3 rules
#89 Anonymous  Console Guide 05:23 07 Nov 2009 GMT  
You want to? I like nicely trimmed butt pubes though. You got it?
#90 Tony  Console Guide 05:55 07 Nov 2009 GMT  
i know there pussy to put there really name up there.. There just fags that cant back there sh it up..
#91 Anonymous  Console Guide 06:05 07 Nov 2009 GMT  
#84 all the way
#92 AlExDaGrEaT 559  Console Guide 15:41 10 Nov 2009 GMT  
This is sssoooo dumb....how did we get on topic of killing eachother, sucking weenie, etc...

Saying tht, I'd like to take credit for the comments being so restrictive...the comments posted on the "free MS points" thread were so bad tht most of them were deleted....lol
#93 Therebel  Console Guide 04:40 11 Nov 2009 GMT  
Wow.. You guys are taking this way too far. It's one thing to have a friendly argument but, it's another thing to completely flame each other. At least respect each others argument and counter that argument with at least some thought and respect
#94 cragless -   Lvl. 1 Monster 08:54 14 Nov 2009 GMT  
There is another downside to the lack of xbox live party chat on Modern Warfare 2. Have you tried starting a game party with some of your friends only to find that once in the game you are no longer in the same game as your friends, only one or two of you made it in and the rest are split into different ones and you are now most likely in a team deathmatch with lets say Italians, you are restricted to party chat so playing as a team with people speaking a different language is impossible and since you are in game chat you can't communicate with the friends you were joining with to find out what happened?.
This sucks big time, Infinity Ward please sort this out, there was never a problem with Cod4 of 5 once in a game party with your friends you were in for good until you left or were kicked for lack of activity etc. even then you could talk with party chat to your friends you were in the game with to find out how long the game had left before you could rejoin at the lobby.
This week we have spent more time trying to get a game with our friends than actually playing the game, it annoyed us so much we have gone back to playing Call of Duty 4.
I would like to hear other peoples thoughts on this too, are you having the same problems caused by the change in party chat and game partys?


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