why do games not have multiplayer chat rooms anymore?

Why do games not have that big global chat thing anymore like they used too? I rember when I first started playing games they would have chat rooms for everyone then you moved off into a room to play. Then they started up those multiplayer gameing sites like mplayer, gamespy, and the msn zone. Still all of those had chat rooms. But now its so rare in the games I come across to find any. Its not that I want to chat so much but I do miss the back and forth, and how you would learn peoples names and make friends or start clans so easy because there was that little chat thing. Now everything seems to have a very impersonal matchmakeing system, throw you in a game, never learn who your playing with, and then back out again to repeat. I miss the good old days.

I dunno. This brings me back good times trolling in the Empire at War chatroom though 8)

I agree with you, this matchmaking system sucks, i mean it does help find games quicker but chat rooms where awesome. YOu really got to know who u were playing against and the community. The newer games which dont even have a server browser (like left 4 dead) really sucks. Matchmaking is good and all, but sometimes i wanna play on spefic server, or find match ups with good people through a chat room.

I haven't found a matchmaking server that is any good. I know what could tell betetr what server is right for me: ME. I know better than any software what server I will enjoy. It is the same as checkpoint save systems: I know better than some programmer when I want to save.

Probably when game makers noticed that those chat rooms were usualy nothing but fighting, racial slurs and little kids running their mouths. I for one am gladto see them gone.

Probably when game makers noticed that those chat rooms were usualy nothing but fighting, racial slurs and little kids running their mouths. I for one am gladto see them gone.

MrUnSavory1

In that case why doesn't Microsoft drop voice support for the 360, same thing happens. Plus they could of kept the server browser and not gone to matchmaking systems while still dropping the chat rooms.

Probably when game makers noticed that those chat rooms were usualy nothing but fighting, racial slurs and little kids running their mouths. I for one am gladto see them gone.

MrUnSavory1

I haven't found a matchmaking server that is any good. I know what could tell betetr what server is right for me: ME. I know better than any software what server I will enjoy. It is the same as checkpoint save systems: I know better than some programmer when I want to save.

I agree with you, this matchmaking system sucks, i mean it does help find games quicker but chat rooms where awesome. YOu really got to know who u were playing against and the community. The newer games which dont even have a server browser (like left 4 dead) really sucks. Matchmaking is good and all, but sometimes i wanna play on spefic server, or find match ups with good people through a chat room.

big_orc