Greatest Anti Social Game Ever!

[Zov]

Ah right, I stand corrected. So what is the problem with Defiance on the console? What makes the social different than DCUO anyway?

A recent update to DCUO is the chat menu can be made any size you want it plus text size set to large.

I didn't even notice the chat menu in this game till around level 150 or so.
I'm guessing most don't even know how to type in the chat I for one don't know how.

[Zodson]

Love the game. So much fun. But does anyone miss a community in game? I got a guild with TONS of members in it, but none of us can talk to each other?? What is the point of an MMO if we can never speak to each other in game??

How are we supposed to discuss if we want to group up and do some dungeons together or some pvp? you cannot.

Forces people to get on voice chat by a third party. Not everyone wants to get into voice chat on a 3rd party server either.

Next is the horrible voice chat. Go into a dungeon and you get people that play with an open mic. I dont want to hear some out of breathe person panting into the mic thinking "omg wtf is he doing???" Having to turn the voice chat ON then back OFF because it just doesnt work right.

Game is fun, but it just lacks the social experience. Play Call of Duty for this time of interaction.

Love the game, fix the chat please!

I am sure this has been said already ... Sinister Swarm has a vent sever that we use for our chatting .... ingame chat would bee nice but not on Top of the list that needs to be fixed

[Scorp Smith]

I used the in-game Area Voice Chat. A girl sneezed and I said Bless You! That was it! Solo the whole time! Addictive game though.

Going to have to look for a Clan one of these days! (PC version)

[Grumftheld]

On console it's simply too fiddly a process, so it's not really going to be a done thing. The other factor is that this is a brand new IP and very new game. DCUO has a hefty back catalogue of information that people can discuss and compare to the game as they go along. Defiance though, all we have is a pilot episode and a few weeks of game time which has been most notable for the bugs and patches. We don't have anything to really go on. When you play something like WoW there will always be people offering crafting services, people asking for crafting, people selling rare gear, the experienced players talking about particular facets of this raid or that Battleground, people arguing over best Gear/skill combos for different situations, there is a ton of stuff for them to talk about. Here we have basically nothing. There's not enough information about the show, not enough experience with the game and, if I'm honest, the game content is pretty light. A handful of co-op and mp maps doesn't really open the game up for lengthy discussions, the gear/skill set up doesn't open the game up for debates over best combos, no crafting and a small handful of dailies that are quickly and easily completed. The game just isn't conducive to extensive chat. The closest you get is during Arkfalls, and that's just people yelling at others to stop driving around/stop shooting the skitterlings.

Without serious depth to the content, there isn't that much to talk about yet, and I don't think that many people will be willing to pause what they're doing just to type out a response in chat channel about a random topic.