XBox Live Headset

The 360 Premium package comes standard with headset and because of this the vast majority of Live players are voice-enabled. This feature is invaluable in certain games (GRAW, Gears, Halo,) in fact it is in most games I'd say. It makes it far easier to strategize and talking with cool people makes games more entertaining as a general rule. I hear that the PS3 is voice-enabled yet because no package comes with a mic so the vast majority of people using PSN aren't voice-enabled. Pretty lame.... but at least they don't have to deal with the kind of nuts like the kid in the link below. 

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. Anyone who has played Live for any length of time will tell you that anonymity coupled with a jackass wearing a headset is a recipe for a headache. Games need to start implementing easy-to-access mute buttons, I hear Halo 3 is planning to do this somehow.... why games aren't making this a standard feature now is beyond me. The Premium PS3 package should start including a mic as well, once you're used to the ability to communicate easily with your team it's hard to revert back to almost complete silence.... then again at least silence covers these types of idiots:

NSFW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6iiho2g5Y

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. Buff-McBlumpkin

You must be partially retarded if you think muting a person is difficult.

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. billing

You must be partially retarded if you think muting a person is difficult.

I'm fully retarded.

[QUOTE="billing"]

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. Buff-McBlumpkin

You must be partially retarded if you think muting a person is difficult.

I'm fully retarded.

That would explain your difficulty muting a person.

I just go to their name on my recent players list and select them and choose mute. :|

I don't see what's so difficult about that...unless you're incredibly lazy.

The select few "kids" that i run into i do mute...but the occurences of someone acting that stupid are rare.

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. billing

You must be partially retarded if you think muting a person is difficult.

Just for the people that don't know... this is the supposed "not difficult" way to do it:

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/02/13/The-Halo-3-feature-you-already-have.aspx

Anyone who has to do this consistently will tell you it drastically tweaks with the flow of a game. Having to stand still and navigate multiple menus just to mute one player is not the definition of "not difficult." As it stands now it's not streamlined at all.

Halo 3 should be making the muting option a two button deal, so that'll help. But yeah, right now it is too hard to mute people. But most of the time I can just private chat with one of my friends in the game with me and have the others blocked out.TarmacChris

The select few "kids" that i run into i do mute...but the occurences of someone acting that stupid are rare.

Puckhog04

Please, I've poured more hours than I can count into Halo 2 and the amount of annoying jackasses I've played with and against is too much to tally. 

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"][QUOTE="billing"]

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. billing

You must be partially retarded if you think muting a person is difficult.

I'm fully retarded.

That would explain your difficulty muting a person.

[QUOTE="Puckhog04"]

The select few "kids" that i run into i do mute...but the occurences of someone acting that stupid are rare.

Buff-McBlumpkin

Please, I've poured more hours than I can count into Halo 2 and the amount of annoying jackasses I've played with and against is too much to tally. 

Our experiences differ than. Maybe you're doing something wrong or just have a very low tolerance for "Social interactions".

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"][QUOTE="Puckhog04"]

The select few "kids" that i run into i do mute...but the occurences of someone acting that stupid are rare.

Puckhog04

Please, I've poured more hours than I can count into Halo 2 and the amount of annoying jackasses I've played with and against is too much to tally. 

Our experiences differ than. Maybe you're doing something wrong or just have a very low tolerance for "Social interactions".

Yeah, OK. I hardly include listening to some high-pitched 14 year old rambling on like an annoying bird "social interaction."

If you include XBox Live as social interaction as a general rule than you probably need to get out more.

Muting someone on Live is difficult? Khansoul

Yeah, it's a pain.

[QUOTE="Puckhog04"][QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"][QUOTE="Puckhog04"]

The select few "kids" that i run into i do mute...but the occurences of someone acting that stupid are rare.

Buff-McBlumpkin

Please, I've poured more hours than I can count into Halo 2 and the amount of annoying jackasses I've played with and against is too much to tally. 

Our experiences differ than. Maybe you're doing something wrong or just have a very low tolerance for "Social interactions".

Yeah, OK. I hardly include listening to some high-pitched 14 year old rambling on like an annoying bird "social interaction."

If you include XBox Live as social interaction as a general rule than you probably need to get out more.

Would this thread count as annoying rambling?

So if a headset isn't standard with the PS3, are the sonyfans saying that online voice communication is "last gen" the way they are with rumble?AdobeArtist

Would this thread count as annoying rambling?

Khansoul

Yes.

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. billing

You must be partially retarded if you think muting a person is difficult.

The 360 Premium package comes standard with headset and because of this the vast majority of Live players are voice-enabled. This feature is invaluable in certain games (GRAW, Gears, Halo,) in fact it is in most games I'd say. It makes it far easier to strategize and talking with cool people makes games more entertaining as a general rule. I hear that the PS3 is voice-enabled yet because no package comes with a mic so the vast majority of people using PSN aren't voice-enabled. Pretty lame.... but at least they don't have to deal with the kind of nuts like the kid in the link below. 

That being said, muting individual players is much, much too difficult as it stands now. Anyone who has played Live for any length of time will tell you that anonymity coupled with a jackass wearing a headset is a recipe for a headache. Games need to start implementing easy-to-access mute buttons, I hear Halo 3 is planning to do this somehow.... why games aren't making this a standard feature now is beyond me. The Premium PS3 package should start including a mic as well, once you're used to the ability to communicate easily with your team it's hard to revert back to almost complete silence.... then again at least silence covers these types of idiots:

NSFW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6iiho2g5Y

Buff-McBlumpkin

[QUOTE="Puckhog04"][QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"][QUOTE="Puckhog04"]

The select few "kids" that i run into i do mute...but the occurences of someone acting that stupid are rare.

Buff-McBlumpkin

Please, I've poured more hours than I can count into Halo 2 and the amount of annoying jackasses I've played with and against is too much to tally. 

Our experiences differ than. Maybe you're doing something wrong or just have a very low tolerance for "Social interactions".

Yeah, OK. I hardly include listening to some high-pitched 14 year old rambling on like an annoying bird "social interaction."

If you include XBox Live as social interaction as a general rule than you probably need to get out more.

I did have Social interaction in quotes for a reason...

You need to learn to comprehend. And i don't run into many 14 yr olds on XBL...most are between 16 and 25.