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Edited by SimplyMerry:
8/7/2014 12:40:25 AM
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next gen is really...quiet?
Ever since Got my xbox one, I knew I'd have to make friends because none of mine got one.
Eight months later, I haven't really heard anything except the occasional angry titan fall player.
Coming into the destiny beta, I had a deja vu moment of saying to myself, "now I can finally meet some people."
Well, after a few hours in the tower hearing only metaphorical crickets I realized, next gen is really quiet.
I've played bungie games since I got my xbox, and those games facilitated some of the best social moments I've had on video games. Whether it was joining random custom game lobbies and having a blast, making a friend in a CTF match by flying each other in a hornet, or feeling the burn in my index finger from holding down the trigger to complete the six hour long vidmaster achievements.
I cherish these memories and have been excited at the opportunity to make new ones in Destiny.
However I can't do that if every guardian I meet is as talkative as a statue due to 'enhancing' my destiny experience.
I think it's great that you (bungie) are taking destiny super seriously as it will end up being a great game.
On the other hand your pushing the envelope. I don't want my destiny experience to be solo. I want to have an experience with someone and then hang with them. Thats what I loved about halo, was the fact it brought people together.
If your touring this as a social game, without chat its far from that. How is a guardian going to say "wow how did you get that sick gear." Message me? If thats the sociability your striving for, quite honestly it sucks. I really want to have amazing moments in this game with new friends.
Simple solution: implement chat in [b]atleast[/b] the tower, with the options via the pull up menu to selectively mute or mute all.
[b]in game chat is essential to making this a social game and making those special bungie moments into friendships[/b]
Otherwise destiny is great
Edit: After the beta I joined a clan because I knew I would want people to play with. So I'll have people to play with, but the point of this post was to express my dismay at the silence
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I do think that them touting the game as being social, then removing the main element in being social (being able to talk to others), was a bit foolish. I think having the ability to speak to others is kind of fundamental, especially in a "social" game. As it stands running across other people is no different to running across more boring versions of NPCs in other games. Removing voice chat because of a small portion of the community who get on to attempt to troll, or play their awful music full volume through a mic is stupid, thats what mute is for. By doing so they limit your ability to make friends to the forum or clan/group system, which you have to take yourself away from the game to use, so the sense of immersion is completely gone at that point. It also doesnt mean you are going to run into like minded people in the clan/group anyway and you have just invested a bunch of time away from the game for nothing. I'd much rather deal with a few idiots that i have to mute and have the option to talk to the people i wanted rather than be able to talk to nobody and be herded onto a forum/chat/clan for the purpose of doing the same thing. Also, just being able to speak to people in strikes etc means you could help randoms that join your matches if they arent as knowledgeable (eg. crit spots on strike bosses etc or make them aware of loot chests and things like that in the vicinity), and having the ability even just to talk about stupid little things to one another will make the game seem more lively, lets be honest, do you go out and ever just never speak a word to anyone you run into in public? All in all i think removing voice chat just distances the community from each other, which is foolish seeing as they tout it as the be all end all social MMO/FPS hybrid.
