Cross Game Chat basically confirmed for PS3 - Likely this month

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Dgc1808 said:

"Sadly, it does appear you'll need to have Playstation Plus to use this feature and it won't be open to all gamers."
"Cross-game Voice Chat: invite your friends to chat online no matter what game you're all playing, even if they aren't members of PlayStation Plus."

Contradiction? Or.... does this mean you need it just to make the chat room/group. Then you can invite anyone into it to use? I don't get it...

Or perhaps you're paying for ability to make a dedicated server for it. Then invite people to that server.

No servers.  It's all P2P.  Thus why it *should* be free.

If they do charge for it, they'll basically make it so that anybody can join a chat, however only subscribers can START a chat.  If all paying subscribers leave a chat, the chat ends, even if non-subscribers remain within the chat.

Thus if you pay for the feature, it won't be gimped because some of your friends don't have the subscription.  They can still chat with you so long as you invite them.