Is Party Chat that important?

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KylieDog said:

Party chat is a plague to team games.

It should be disabled in any game that requires teamplay/teamwork.

I'm talking cross-game party chat.

Hey, in a perfect world, I agree 100%.

But I gotta say that everytime I play an online multiplayer game with my friends, I beg them to enable party chat. The amount of ugly, annoying nonsense coming out of the lips of other players on Xbox LIVE is staggering. And it takes all the joy out of the competition.