I never had the pleasure of playing Destiny 1 as I am a PC gamer. I have waited for YEARS for Destiny 2 to come out on PC and I have to say, I am not disappointed! The worlds are absolutely gorgeous! The gameplay is fast and so much fun! So far, I am really enjoying this game and I am very happy with pretty much all aspects of the game... Except Chat. I have read that the creator does not want and does not plan to implement a proper chat system in game. I find this to be absolutely absurd. This is not console. You can not label this a MMO and not provide a proper chat system. And mmo or not, you can not offer game modes where there is no matchmaking and provide no way to communicate with players to team up for these things and expect the game to have any sort of longevity. You guys say clans are "optional". No, no they arent. And what is even more absurd, is there is no clan chat!! Do you really think that people are going to sit on your website and alt tab every time they want to talk with their clan?... Yes, we have voice chat. But, I have played the game pretty constant since the 3rd day of release and I have yet to hear a single soul on voip. I have tried to talk on voice while in crucible and in strikes. But, I am pretty sure no one has it enabled. PC gamers are a different breed than console gamers. Yes, voice coms are the way to communicate on console, pretty much always. But, not on PC. Many of us do prefer voice chat, but ALL of us prefer to also have a way to communicate via text aswell. This is a very important part of this game that is missing and imo, it will hurt the game overall, if it hasn't already. I have mostly been playing with my guy and we use discord. But, strikes are painful sometimes because we have no way to really communicate with our pug teammate. Yes, we can chat in team chat. BUT, that box does not pop up when someone says something. It's just a lil envelope that, from my experience, most people don't even notice until after the fact. But, besides that, how are people supposed to gather teams for nighfalls? Or raids? Or the new PVP Trial of the Niles?? Not everyone has a slew of friends sitting in discord waiting to play with them. PC players should not be expected to have to look outside of the game to find people to play these game modes. It is absurd, imo. And to not even provide a proper clan chat?..... I understand not wanting the toxicity that local chat can cause. PC players come with a certain amount of salt with them to every game, it seems. I think the absolute worst in game chat I have seen would be Black Desert Online... I have been playing PC mmo games for years and that chat even shocked me. No one wants that for their game and I completely understand that. But, then you have games like Elder Scrolls Online. I played that game for years and saw very little, if any toxicity in chat. It really depends on what crowd the game brings in. Doing away with in game chat entirely is not a solution to the toxicity that dwells in PC mmo's. Chat options is the solution. Give options to hide the chat, ignore people, only have chat show what the player wants (clan chat, team chat, etc). You could also implement a very strict censor system with chat. That might annoy alot of people but at least they would be able to find people in game to play with and communicate with those around them. Having a game like this were people have to team up for certain activities but giving people no in-game options to communicate and find players to join is, frankly, ignorant. This game is AWESOME imo. I am writing this giant wall of text, not to just whine and cry about this. I am writing it in the hopes that someone at Bungie will actually get how much they are handicapping this game by not providing good communication between the players. I want this game to succeed, and not giving PC players a way to communicate with those around them and find players to join them for these major parts of the game, will not do anything but push players away. That is the last thing a gaming company wants and that is the last thing I want for Destiny 2. I hope in the near future, this will change. If you took the time to read this entire wall of text, congrats, you get a big chocolate chip cookie and I love you. <3