Never wanted it because I'm either in Party Chat while playing or I don't want to talk at the moment.

I bet even those people who cried to get a chat option are not using it.

Look I know chat was put in the game, but chat is in the game right ? XD

Its a shame really. I'm so sick of screaming into the abyss not to take A on blind watch. And I only play crucible very rarely besides during iron banner.

I know, only one player has talked to me so far

I don't think crucible is the place to use it. Strikes and patrol are PERFECT for it

Hardly heard anyone speaking! The one person i have gave me abuse for 'getting in his way' Safe to say he got rather annoyed when i ran him down with my sparrow! Oops

Just used it, made two new friends! It's a miracle!

Ikr

I used it once in a strike. Fortunately I wasn't paired up with idiots. They were very nice. We talked about the Grimoire and Last Word and Thorn.

its kinda like the whole dark souls thing... the first game didnt have voice chat... then the second one came out it DID have voice chat but no one used it because people got use to it and conversed in different ways either through gestures or messages through PSN/Live

If I was playing I would talk but how many can even join that Team chat thing in the open world? I mean in GTA 5 for 360/PS3 up to 15. if this game can't even hit that benchmark then um- But they need to improve Comm and Group for most of us to return and a damn good story to keep us here. Period.

Give it time, more will start to use it. It's only been a few days, so that's not really a lot of time to set a precedent of not using chat. I'm sure some people are still completely oblivious to its existence. Give it till next month, if the majority hasn't started using chat by then, there's a problem.

I think that people are afraid to use it because it was causing so many issues for players in game.

Im sure plenty of people see the need or wanted chat in strikes and crucible, but me personally i was wanting tower and patrol proximity chat. as these are the places i need to be able to say "hey you wanna get together and do a strike or im looking to build a raid party want to join" once we have a raid group or strike group we could use party chat anyway as it doesnt have the game volume overpowering it. at this point of the game almost everyone knows how to do a strike and doesnt need chat during the event. but meeting people that want to do the same thing is still a choir thats not enjoyable. wait let me go in the other room hop on my computer and search for a raid group. oh wait i have a app let me put down my game and play with my phone for a half hour. im sure there are people that will disagree with me that they dont want to hear kids running around the tower. yes this can be true but this is why there is a option to turn it off if you dont want it you dont have to have it. the tower or crucible you can always turn it off. EDIT: this was a afterthought, adding voice in matchmade strikes is like the game deciding this is the person you are going to be working with for the next 30 minutes(yes i know you can do a strike in 5min cause you are a pro super badass genius hyper glorious gamer and a half) but lets be real a strike can take a half hour sometimes. now if this person is a tool you cant stand then voice was useless. meeting up in the tower gives you the ability to decide if this person is a tool or this one is cool i can spend the next half hour with them. this can also lead to friend making for further matches. so as i can see voice added in strikes MIGHT be useful, i see using chat in the tower to build your own groups would almost always make for a well communicated group in the event. Because you decided who you were going to be going into battle with instead of being randomly matched.

I see so many people asking why communication is near scary in low level events. It's not. Am I crazy for thinking that a game built around social interaction would have players interested in chatting? Even if just to shoot the shit while playing.

I actually used it the other day while running the Phogoth strike with some randoms. One of the guys kept going back in the entry causing the extra Knights and Wizards to spawn and wipe him out. I threw on my headset, let him know to stay out of there, and everything was gravy. No amount of "pointing" would have helped in this situation, it was actually quite nice.