Xbox Live Party Chat May Be Returning To Modern Warfare 2

The game is out, people are playing it, and people like it. A LOT of people. There is one small annoyance that a lot of people have complained about, though, and thats the lack of being able to talk in your private Xbox Live parties while in certain game modes. At first, the idea seems noble: force everyone to use the game's chatting method to get a more talkative community, so that lone wolves won't feel as lone when they're just searching for a few quick deathmatch rounds. At first it was believed that this was done to combat cheating in certain game modes, where players could still talk after they died. This didn't make sense, however, because all of the game modes except for Search and Destroy were respawn-based, and people could still talk to their living friends while dead, anyway.

This "feature" hasn't been received well, though, and thankfully Infinity Ward has been listening. Robert Bowling, the community manager for Infinity Ward (known best as fourzerotwo) has it on good authority through the "grapevine" that we could be seeing the abomination of this forced rerouting of communication once and for all.

Personally, I'm glad. Us being a (predominantly) black site, it's unsurprising for us in particular to run into the racists and the scum of the internet that makes the game unenjoyable. Even then, there are a lot of other douche bags out there who harass people for no reason. Sure the mute button works, but why should one have to continuously use it? Surely, we're gamers. Gamers are lazy, and Infinity Ward hopefully is strongly considering the reversion, but for now we'll tie this up in the rumor mill and hopefully we hear more come of it in the coming days.

Oh, and there was some stuff about new playlists. You may be interested.