Looks like everyone was wrong in the latest threads.

Which threads are these? I don't recall seeing anything to the contrary, aside from assumptions from a select few perhaps.

I was looking forward to abusing people online :(

It's funny how inconsistent Nintendo is with communication in their games. You have games like Pokemon and Animal Crossing where you can freely talk with randoms, then Mario Kart and Smash Bros. only allowing friend chat, and finally Luigi's Mansion and Splatoon where you can't communicate at all. Make up your mind!

I find people communicate a lot less often in shooters than they used to... I recall there seemingly being a half dozen ten year olds shouting profanities each game of Halo years ago, but now I rarely hear more than one player in Battlefield/GTA v etc unless I'm playing with friends.

Really, this game looks simple and probably doesn't require voice chat. All Nintendo would really need to do to please most is allow some comminicatin with team mates via tapping on the map on the gamepad and providing a way for people to form voice chat groups with friends sort of like TS/vent or what the PS4 has. Unfortunately, I do not believe they've any plans to do either.

I'll still be getting this game though... Looks like a ton of fun.


P.S. What's funny is, if there's one online community on earth that probably wouldn't be too bad with voice chat it's the people of "Miiverse"... They're all so happy and nice that you feel obligated to be nice yourself lol

I still don't think this is good enough of a reason.

If they're really concerned with this, they could put a parental block on voice chat or something, or even something like mute voice communication on default game settings.

I don't care much about voice chat (i usually just mute everyone), but that's a pretty silly reason to remove it completely.

Damn, I was looking forward to calling strangers f****t n****r c**ts whenever I lost a game... ;)

I'm not even sure I'd use it but surely they could have included for friends. Playing games with my friends and not being able to swear at them is just weird.

I still feel that it would've been a better idea to either have voice chat with friends or have it on but you are able to mute players. Either way, I'm still excited for the game.