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Carl on 31 March 2012

One of the main reasons I stopped playing, was because of a lack of communication with other players. I liked to jump into random games, have some fun and chat to new people... It's quite hard to do that now.

When you're playing a team game, you want communication. You want to win. You want to know where they're attacking from, where they're guarding the bomb, how many are holed up in a room... And so on.

Since World at War, competant players chatting online are hard to find. The majority of people I've found in matches are wither bitching or trolling. Series multiplayer peaked with CoD4, got worse with every game since.



                            

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Slimebeast on 01 April 2012
VGKing said:
BHR3 said:

i never had much respect for COD till about 09 thats when i first played cod4, i think they do a good job of also catering to SP only gamers there campaings are short but action packed and theres always other SP only modes like survival mode and spec ops. 

im anti social so communication isnt important, being around more than one person at a time isnt the focus, i play TDM hardcore or freeforall modes in pretty much every MP game.  i dont enjoy trash talking i hardly ever use a mic (imo the trash talking is a bit worse on live compared to psn b/c the user base is bigger and 360 come with mics) i just let my performance speak for itself like i've done on this site with many of my perdition.   if i aint good on a games MP then i wont play it, i dont mute others unless there really loud i like haring them complain that i so called  cheap killed them or whatever.   i like taunting them or only focusing on them during the match to hear there complaints escalate , you have to be calm and focused to be good  while online gaming

i dont have much time with COD MP i have about 100 or so hrs on each of the yearly releases, its health is a bit to low you cant really get out of a gun fight like you could in TPS games like uncharted and the camping is pretty bad on some maps along with the gun balance and kill streaks with shit falling out of the sky all the time 

Xbox 360s DO NOT come with mics bundled in. 

Yes they do. All Xbox 360s that have a harddrive also come with a headset. To include that cheap headset is one important part of the genious strategy by MS to encourage players to go online.



NotStan on 01 April 2012

I rage, the others rage. We rage together, mums are brought into conversation, as well as regional racism due to difference in accents, sometimes they're referred to as "little pricks". Things happen. I wouldn't say it's a social experience, I am there more for the competitive element of the game.



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