You just need to know destiny sign language. It is actually pretty easy. Wave = Hi Point = look there Dance = yay! Point+point = go there. Dance+point+wave+wave+dance+point = looking for a group for weekly. Wave+wave+dance+dance+point+point+wave+dance = looking for group for nightfall Wave+dance+point+wave+wave+wave+dance = looking for naughty chat Dance+dance+dance+dance+dance = I have Devon mental issues will you be my friend. Sit down = looking for group for VoG.

To clarify the issue. Prox chat could be set to default OFF in the tower. Fire team chat is not effected. Each time a player goes to the tower and wishes to use prox chat they would have to turn it on. If a player never turns it on they will never hear anything but the fire team. This would allow for choice. The question now would be is it the choice of on option that bothers those that are against it?

It is my belief that bungie in there infinite wisdom to give us full control with restriction is no control at all. I agree that there are players out their that get pleasure from offending others yet if noone stands up and says anything the victim suffers and offender continues. Its called bulling. To stop a bully you call them at their own game. If one of their friends says to stop they will more than likely stop. A victim who does not speak up is no victim. In the end its is a game meant to entertain and no one should have to suffer. Though I don't fully agree the reasoning is sound. Prox chat may never exist in this game and I feel that it may take away some of its potential. We are all to be punished for the irresponsible few that may never grow up.

Move to within earshot of someone and wave (chat invite sent). The other person waves back (invitation accepted). Chat to your hearts content! Once done walk out of hearing range (chat session ended).

I would prefer text chat in the tower rather then 12 kids blasting music through there mics 24/7

Ah yes, I can imagine me stitting at the tower about to get off for the night, when suddenly: "HEY -blam!- WHATCHA UP TO -blam!- 420 BLAZE IT M8". No thanks. I would rather not have my experience ruined BEFORE I change my chat settings. No voice chat will be better for Destiny. If you really wanna voice chat, invite a guy to your fireteam.

15 plus people talking at once no thanks lol

Implement a system where you press a button to talk. If a button has been held down for ____ amount of time the person will be punished for spam. This would fix a lot of the spam and only punish the ones who are purposefully being dicks. I will be pretty disappointed if they dont implement a prox chat since a majority of the community has shown that this is a feature that they want.

Original Post - http://www.examiner.com/article/bungie-explains-why-destiny-only-allows-for-chat-between-fireteam-members "We want to make sure your level of social engagement in Destiny is something that you have complete and total control over. We want you to make very deliberate decisions about the people you're going to have on your team, and the voices that you welcome into your audio mix. We've made a lot of games over the years that have brought a lot of gamers together in social and violent [encounters]. We found that people who know each other and trust each other tend to make the best contributions to the party. I can certainly remember playing Bungie games online and other people would use their access of being able to talk to me as an opportunity to incite grief or bully me, [so that's why we did that]," David Dague said. Original Post - http://www.examiner.com/article/destiny-voice-chat-restrictions-explained-by-bungie "One of the things that we're doing for the first time ever in Destiny, we're taking a different approach to voice chat. We know that, not just in multiplayer, that in general, when you get into a game with someone that you don't know or someone that you've never seen before and may never see again, they have this power to completely destroy your entire experience and maybe ruin the game for you forever. And so what we're doing instead of having that...one in ten chance possibility of someone ruining your game, we're effectively saying you only have voice chat to your fireteam. And we're doing other things to let you communicate with other players, but it'll be interesting to see how people react to it, for sure." Lars Bakken

Personally I think an open proximity voice chat would just turn into a huge shit show, sure I can turn it off, but that won't stop it ultimately just being people acting like idiots and saying stupid shit ruffling everyone elses feathers. It will be abused and people will use it to do nothing but fight half the time. I still think a proximity TEXT based chat is a better option. Not only is it just less annoying then having multiple dudes screaming at each other over your speakers, I imagine it'd also be easier to integrate with a reporting system, something that logs the chats for a moderator to review later.

Waving is a simple Hi. Fact is I am glad Destiny's soundtrack is under my control, as opposed to having it force me to interact with people whose way of things is normal to them, but potentially rude or distracting to me.

I think voice chat should be with your team or with people you [i]agree[/i] to chat with. I don't want to hear a bunch of 12 year old racist homophobes or juggalos blasting their non-music into their mic. And it would be a hassle to mute everyone I come into contact with.