All of you more mature gamers surely remember the old H2-Reach chat lobbies full of nothing but fellow friendly Halo fans and your -Yoink- talking 40 year old virgins. What happened to that? And why does everyone automute people without mics? Even when I don’t have my mic in, I’d love to just sit back and listen to those nostalgic chats.
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> All of you more mature gamers surely remember the old H2-Reach chat lobbies full of nothing but fellow friendly Halo fans and your -Yoink- talking 40 year old virgins. What happened to that? And why does everyone automute people without mics? Even when I don’t have my mic in, I’d love to just sit back and listen to those nostalgic chats.
Squeakers, toxic teammate blaming kids, and just overall stupid people happened. I’ll get into chat with people only if they’re on my fire team and luckily I’ve met almost no kids on Halo 5. However, one of the main reasons I quit R6 Siege is due to squeakers infecting lobbies and team killing random players like me just because I’m better than them and their stupid “clan.”
Having used voice chat since Xbox Live first launched, I think today is better since the general consensus for most people is I only talk to my friends. I got a nephew who likes games and the last thing I want him doing when he gets older is talking to random online creeps and predators that ran rampant back in the original Xbox and Xbox 360 days.
Its my unpopular opinion, but I really feel that people under the age of 18 shouldn’t have access to chatting with random ppl. Unlike a mature gamer like me who will just mute someone if they start acting dumb, a younger gamer will continue to engage him/her and it’ll just escalate to an unprecedented level.
My experience is no one uses mics in H5 except a very very rare griefer. MCC has very few using mics and actually just trying to talk, sure it has the rare griefers as well though.
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> > All of you more mature gamers surely remember the old H2-Reach chat lobbies full of nothing but fellow friendly Halo fans and your -Yoink- talking 40 year old virgins. What happened to that? And why does everyone automute people without mics? Even when I don’t have my mic in, I’d love to just sit back and listen to those nostalgic chats.
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> Squeakers, toxic teammate blaming kids, and just overall stupid people happened. I’ll get into chat with people only if they’re on my fire team and luckily I’ve met almost no kids on Halo 5. However, one of the main reasons I quit R6 Siege is due to squeakers infecting lobbies and team killing random players like me just because I’m better than them and their stupid “clan.”
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> Having used voice chat since Xbox Live first launched, I think today is better since the general consensus for most people is I only talk to my friends. I got a nephew who likes games and the last thing I want him doing when he gets older is talking to random online creeps and predators that ran rampant back in the original Xbox and Xbox 360 days.
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> Its my unpopular opinion, but I really feel that people under the age of 18 shouldn’t have access to chatting with random ppl. Unlike a mature gamer like me who will just mute someone if they start acting dumb, a younger gamer will continue to engage him/her and it’ll just escalate to an unprecedented level.
I can agree to a certain extent, but I don’t have any friends in my normal daily life that play Halo 5 or MCC. It would be nice to have it like back in the Reach days especially where you could find other like-minded gamers to have fun online with. Sure I’d never escelate the friendship any further than partying up and playing different playlist, but it was something fun to look forward to because o could actually share in game experiences with people I enjoyed playing with seeing as how none of my real friends were Halo fans or even owned any Halo games for that matter.
The day party chat was implemented was the beginning of the end.
Back then, me and my friends would play Big Team just to be able to talk. But with party chat, we could all talk across multiple games (you even had to push to talk in gamechat if enough people had mics in Big Team).
I remember saying, “Well, I hope you guys like your friends lists, because you probably won’t be making many more.”