Who else thinks Sony is holding back on Cross Game Chat?

I mean Sony has discussed time and time again at introducing monthly fees for "premium services"

Which got me to thinking, what if cross game chat is unveiled as a premium service? I am sure they have it done by now, I mean it's been 3 years since launch and a year and a half since the last substantial update to the XMB (update 2.4)

What are your thoughts on this?

I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing a game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

to be honest i dont care that much

i more of a single player type of gamer so

No, it wouldn't work, because you would only be able to chat with other premium subscribers, and let's face it: most people will stick with the free version.

I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing an game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

Flame_Blade88

Couldn't agree with you more..

It's not just for communicating with other people between games

It would make getting your party together for an online game much easier

Depending on the price I may be interested in that. You see i use gaming as a time to keep in contact with my REAL friends so it would be good if I can chat while playing different games.

I hope they make that feature free though.

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I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing an game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

Denji

Couldn't agree with you more..

I agree I don't want to not answer my chat when I'm in the middle of a game. I hope they make it a premium service but then we will get posts everyday of the cheap people who want it for free. There are always people complaining even though they have a free service.

Sony is and has hold back a lot of stuff... Imagine if we had all these features & games since launch? There's no competetion..

Sony is and has hold back a lot of stuff... Imagine if we had all these features & games since launch? There's no competetion..

Geespotuser

Well Sony did build the PSN from scratch for the PS3 and games need at least 1.5 years of dev time

So no

I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing a game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

Flame_Blade88

i agree with this. the messaging system is more then enough and if you want to talk to your friend theirs the chat option too where you can even use the eyetoy like a webcam so y is everyone so obsessed with cross game chat. the whole concept of it seems dumb, y wud i want to talk to a friend whos playing a diffrent game then i am at the moment? if i wanted to talk to them that badly while playing my game y wudnt we both just play the same game together?!

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I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing a game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

randino84

i agree with this. the messaging system is more then enough and if you want to talk to your friend theirs the chat option too where you can even use the eyetoy like a webcam so y is everyone so obsessed with cross game chat. the whole concept of it seems dumb, y wud i want to talk to a friend whos playing a diffrent game then i am at the moment? if i wanted to talk to them that badly while playing my game y wudnt we both just play the same game together?!

From my experiences on Xbox Live, it makes it a lot easier to organize your party with cgc

Human interactions scare me; text and characters made up of invisible ones and zeros are the only things I can hide behind on PSN. If Sony took away that security from me, I wouldn't know what to do...hazelnutman

:lol:

Hazel wins again

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[QUOTE="Flame_Blade88"]

I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing a game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

thelastguy

i agree with this. the messaging system is more then enough and if you want to talk to your friend theirs the chat option too where you can even use the eyetoy like a webcam so y is everyone so obsessed with cross game chat. the whole concept of it seems dumb, y wud i want to talk to a friend whos playing a diffrent game then i am at the moment? if i wanted to talk to them that badly while playing my game y wudnt we both just play the same game together?!

From my experiences on Xbox Live, it makes it a lot easier to organize your party with cgc

Exactly

There are several pros to this feature. I feel some people just hate on it because Xbox has it and we don't. So we train ourselves to say it is a useless feature when in fact it is a great feature to have...

To the TC. Why didn't you just bump and old thread. Why do we have to hear this everyday?

I don't remember seeing a thread claiming Sony was holding back cgc

To the TC. Why didn't you just bump and old thread. Why do we have to hear this everyday?

ScreamDream

..uh...technically.....you're reading it:P

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[QUOTE="randino84"]

i agree with this. the messaging system is more then enough and if you want to talk to your friend theirs the chat option too where you can even use the eyetoy like a webcam so y is everyone so obsessed with cross game chat. the whole concept of it seems dumb, y wud i want to talk to a friend whos playing a diffrent game then i am at the moment? if i wanted to talk to them that badly while playing my game y wudnt we both just play the same game together?!

baller72

From my experiences on Xbox Live, it makes it a lot easier to organize your party with cgc

Exactly

There are several pros to this feature. I feel some people just hate on it because Xbox has it and we don't. So we train ourselves to say it is a useless feature when in fact it is a great feature to have...

or it could be that we just personally see no use for it. in the time it prolly takes for u to send a cross game chat invite to each of ur friends and talk to all ur friends to organize a party u cud of made one message asking who wud like to join ur party and sent that one message to multiple people. simple enuff right? if i can do that then cross game chat is really not all that more useful. i feel the only reason people DO want it is because xbox live has it and we dont which just seems like a foolish reason.

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[QUOTE="thelastguy"]

From my experiences on Xbox Live, it makes it a lot easier to organize your party with cgc

randino84

Exactly

There are several pros to this feature. I feel some people just hate on it because Xbox has it and we don't. So we train ourselves to say it is a useless feature when in fact it is a great feature to have...

or it could be that we just personally see no use for it. in the time it prolly takes for u to send a cross game chat invite to each of ur friends and talk to all ur friends to organize a party u cud of made one message asking who wud like to join ur party and sent that one message to multiple people. simple enuff right? if i can do that then cross game chat is really not all that more useful. i feel the only reason people DO want it is because xbox live has it and we dont which just seems like a foolish reason.

You would have to go through and read everyones reply (if they didn't put it in the subject) and then possibly have to write another message

It is just time consuming and unnecessary

Plus if you were to quit or leave the game, you wouldn't still be able to talk to them

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[QUOTE="thelastguy"]

From my experiences on Xbox Live, it makes it a lot easier to organize your party with cgc

randino84

Exactly

There are several pros to this feature. I feel some people just hate on it because Xbox has it and we don't. So we train ourselves to say it is a useless feature when in fact it is a great feature to have...

or it could be that we just personally see no use for it. in the time it prolly takes for u to send a cross game chat invite to each of ur friends and talk to all ur friends to organize a party u cud of made one message asking who wud like to join ur party and sent that one message to multiple people. simple enuff right? if i can do that then cross game chat is really not all that more useful. i feel the only reason people DO want it is because xbox live has it and we dont which just seems like a foolish reason.

But that is just a 1 way medium... why would you settle for that when you can send that same invitation, but make it a group chat invitation and when everyone joins you can have a conversation about what EVERYONE wants to play instead of relaying messages back and forth like some pigeon.

Time wasted??? I think not.

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[QUOTE="baller72"]

Exactly

There are several pros to this feature. I feel some people just hate on it because Xbox has it and we don't. So we train ourselves to say it is a useless feature when in fact it is a great feature to have...

thelastguy

or it could be that we just personally see no use for it. in the time it prolly takes for u to send a cross game chat invite to each of ur friends and talk to all ur friends to organize a party u cud of made one message asking who wud like to join ur party and sent that one message to multiple people. simple enuff right? if i can do that then cross game chat is really not all that more useful. i feel the only reason people DO want it is because xbox live has it and we dont which just seems like a foolish reason.

You would have to go through and read everyones reply (if they didn't put it in the subject) and then possibly have to write another message

It is just time consuming and unnecessary

Plus if you were to quit or leave the game, you wouldn't still be able to talk to them

its time consuming and unecessary because u want it to be when in fact its no more time consuming or as "unecessary" as cross game chat. and if a person quits the game y wud u need to continue talking to them rather then the people ur playing the actual game with? if we get this feature then fine thats another feature added to the PS3 for the people like u guys who seem to really want it but i wish people wud stop acting like its such an extremely convenient feature to have when it really wudnt make much of a diffrence.

To tell you the truth,I really don't like using it on XBL....if it never comes to the PSN, I won't be mad!!! lol....I find it hard to concentrate while blasting people away with the M1014 and chatting at the same time.:P

I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing a game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

Flame_Blade88

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[QUOTE="randino84"]

or it could be that we just personally see no use for it. in the time it prolly takes for u to send a cross game chat invite to each of ur friends and talk to all ur friends to organize a party u cud of made one message asking who wud like to join ur party and sent that one message to multiple people. simple enuff right? if i can do that then cross game chat is really not all that more useful. i feel the only reason people DO want it is because xbox live has it and we dont which just seems like a foolish reason.

randino84

You would have to go through and read everyones reply (if they didn't put it in the subject) and then possibly have to write another message

It is just time consuming and unnecessary

Plus if you were to quit or leave the game, you wouldn't still be able to talk to them

its time consuming and unecessary because u want it to be when in fact its no more time consuming or as "unecessary" as cross game chat. and if a person quits the game y wud u need to continue talking to them rather then the people ur playing the actual game with? if we get this feature then fine thats another feature added to the PS3 for the people like u guys who seem to really want it but i wish people wud stop acting like its such an extremely convenient feature to have when it really wudnt make much of a diffrence.

Have you used it on XBL?

If you gamed with your real life friends then it is a great feature

What if I'm playing MW2 with 6 people and we all get disconnected? Then we start spamming each other with invites and nobody joins (this has actually happened)

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[QUOTE="thelastguy"]

You would have to go through and read everyones reply (if they didn't put it in the subject) and then possibly have to write another message

It is just time consuming and unnecessary

Plus if you were to quit or leave the game, you wouldn't still be able to talk to them

thelastguy

its time consuming and unecessary because u want it to be when in fact its no more time consuming or as "unecessary" as cross game chat. and if a person quits the game y wud u need to continue talking to them rather then the people ur playing the actual game with? if we get this feature then fine thats another feature added to the PS3 for the people like u guys who seem to really want it but i wish people wud stop acting like its such an extremely convenient feature to have when it really wudnt make much of a diffrence.

Have you used it on XBL?

If you gamed with your real life friends then it is a great feature

What if I'm playing MW2 with 6 people and we all get disconnected? Then we start spamming each other with invites and nobody joins (this has actually happened)

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[QUOTE="randino84"]

its time consuming and unecessary because u want it to be when in fact its no more time consuming or as "unecessary" as cross game chat. and if a person quits the game y wud u need to continue talking to them rather then the people ur playing the actual game with? if we get this feature then fine thats another feature added to the PS3 for the people like u guys who seem to really want it but i wish people wud stop acting like its such an extremely convenient feature to have when it really wudnt make much of a diffrence.

Flame_Blade88

Have you used it on XBL?

If you gamed with your real life friends then it is a great feature

What if I'm playing MW2 with 6 people and we all get disconnected? Then we start spamming each other with invites and nobody joins (this has actually happened)

Yes :P

[QUOTE="Flame_Blade88"][QUOTE="thelastguy"]

Have you used it on XBL?

If you gamed with your real life friends then it is a great feature

What if I'm playing MW2 with 6 people and we all get disconnected? Then we start spamming each other with invites and nobody joins (this has actually happened)

thelastguy

Yes :P

I still cannot figure out for the life of me why anyone would want to chat while playing a game with someone playing an entirely different game. To me it just seems like a feature people want because the 360 has it. That being said, there are rumors of it coming and rumors of a premium PSN service, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are tied together.

I still cannot figure out for the life of me why anyone would want to chat while playing a game with someone playing an entirely different game. To me it just seems like a feature people want because the 360 has it. That being said, there are rumors of it coming and rumors of a premium PSN service, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are tied together.

zaphod_b

I can not figure out why people hate the feature so much? besides the fact it is on the 360... I mean really how it this a con?

I mean I am fine with the messeging system, but I am pretty sure I would like the chat option just a tad bit more.

This really boggles my mind. It is like buying a phone and just being able to text. Yea it is doable, but I would rather talk. I guess I am just one of those gamers who can talk while playing single player games( after I beat them of coarse)

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I still cannot figure out for the life of me why anyone would want to chat while playing a game with someone playing an entirely different game. To me it just seems like a feature people want because the 360 has it. That being said, there are rumors of it coming and rumors of a premium PSN service, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are tied together.

baller72

I can not figure out why people hate the feature so much? besides the fact it is on the 360... I mean really how it this a con?

I mean I am fine with the messeging system, but I am pretty sure I would like the chat option just a tad bit more.

This really boggles my mind. It is like buying a phone and just being able to text. Yea it is doable, but I would rather talk. I guess I am just one of those gamers who can talk while playing single player games( after I beat them of coarse)

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[QUOTE="zaphod_b"]

I still cannot figure out for the life of me why anyone would want to chat while playing a game with someone playing an entirely different game. To me it just seems like a feature people want because the 360 has it. That being said, there are rumors of it coming and rumors of a premium PSN service, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are tied together.

zaphod_b

I can not figure out why people hate the feature so much? besides the fact it is on the 360... I mean really how it this a con?

I mean I am fine with the messeging system, but I am pretty sure I would like the chat option just a tad bit more.

This really boggles my mind. It is like buying a phone and just being able to text. Yea it is doable, but I would rather talk. I guess I am just one of those gamers who can talk while playing single player games( after I beat them of coarse)

I agree with you I don't miss it either, but to me and many others it would be a great bonus to have voice chat as an option. To say I or others just want it because 360 has it makes very little sense to me. I 'm sure some people are like that, but I have several reasons why I personally want this.

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I don't care in the slightest, sending messages is good enough for me, I don't see what the big deal is for this feature at all really.

I don't want to be playing an game and talking to a friend while he or she's playing something else, it's the same thing as playing video games while talking on the phone, it's just stupid to me.

Denji

Couldn't agree with you more..

agreed!

[QUOTE="zaphod_b"]

I still cannot figure out for the life of me why anyone would want to chat while playing a game with someone playing an entirely different game. To me it just seems like a feature people want because the 360 has it. That being said, there are rumors of it coming and rumors of a premium PSN service, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are tied together.

baller72

I can not figure out why people hate the feature so much? besides the fact it is on the 360... I mean really how it this a con?

I mean I am fine with the messeging system, but I am pretty sure I would like the chat option just a tad bit more.

This really boggles my mind. It is like buying a phone and just being able to text. Yea it is doable, but I would rather talk. I guess I am just one of those gamers who can talk while playing single player games( after I beat them of coarse)

no one is saying we hate this feature and no ones saying its a con. if we get it then great for those who wanted it but i along with what seems like several others wouldnt really use it to often. im just tired of hearing people complain about not having it likes its the most necessary feature in the world when what we shud be asking for are new and really useful features.