It's time for chat system to be implemented to console

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Exactly. I’m the one that started that thread, and believe it should be implemented. See that last thing I said in that thread

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You guys are aware you can plug in a keyboard on console, right? While you cannot use it to game in overwatch (would be considered cheating) you can still type with it. And a cheap keyboard would do just fine.
So yeah, having a chat box for console would be nice!

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Might aswell buy a cheap headset and communicate properly :stuck_out_tongue:

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People should just be in team chat, no time to type tactics mid match and sounds like a tool for toxic folk

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Sorry dunno how it works on console, but there aren’t buttons to show ult status, group up command? (maybe is a useless question but for real don’t know how is ow on console).

Believe me chat is just another toxic channel 80 % of times (not innocent here, and not that I’m proud of it… I try my best to improve my behaviour).

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Well it may increase toxicity but also be good. Like if there is a player on the other team that is hacking or something(which happened a good amount of times)you can tell the enemy team to draw, or even other uses. Also for the people saying join team chat, well what if that player is not in team chat because believe me on console alot of people either forget to enter or any other reason. And if the chat system is found already on pc then it SHOULD be found on console, because it feels like the devs are leaving out console on some features found on pc. Like what game has specific simple feature on pc but not console

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The thing is that Overwatch on each platform are all treated as being seperate, the console versions also have some changes to heroes which are not present on PC because of the major difference in peripherals. So there are many things are on the PC version that just won’t make it to console.

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Well diffrent mechanics and what not are understandable since it is easier to aim on pc than console. But I feel that features like chat system don’t need to be platform specific. Also just look at the push to talk feature, it took blizard two years to implement it on console, like why. Now tell me that this feature needed to be platform specific for 2 years