So, I would like to get the most out of my PSN experience as possible. My question is, that do you PSN players mostly talk with your headset or message/text each other while online?
some games require it, even when you are not playing with a clan or friends (ex: MAG) but in most cases it isn't necessary, unless of course you like listening to crap random people have to say.
i never text, only communicate with the mic. Even then i don't use my mic with most games. only time i use it is for uncharted 2 because the community seems civil enough and mag because communication is key to success and the community is good that way.
In games with online multi-player I chat with my headset, but just hanging around on the XMB I'll send a text message (w/ picture). Most of my friends list is Sony G.A.P. members so there is a good deal of GAP blogs, FaceBook private group stuff, and other communications going on. Thus we use the voice & text message services more then most for, "Did you see this or that on GAP" or "Today is 'game night' CoD BLOPs night are you coming?"
I don't use the XMB Video Chat much, but mostly because most my friends play at night in their bed cloths. Most of my friends do not use PSN Home, as much as I do; so I don't bother much with avatar chats...although I plan to use that more because hanging out in my virtual hot tub would be cool.
Depends on the game. In Modnation Racers for example, almost no one uses a Mic and people tend to use the built in text chat, and if not that they tend to just send others direct messages. That was my experience with that game, anyway (140 hours worth.)
I played a lot of MAG also and I never got any text based messages, I communicated solely through voice because most people playing had mics.
I play COD, meaning I don't use a mic, and I mute first and ask questions later. I'll probably start using a headset to chat in SOCOM, because it's probably going to be kind of a niche game, meaning most players will have mics, and will be mostly intelligent, like the SOCOM 3/Combined Assault community was. Like, even the little kids were alright in SOCOM 3, most of the time.
I don't communicate with people at all outside of games really. Mostly because the only PSN friend I regularly play with lives about 15 feet away.
You will rarely find people with headsets. The majority of the headset people I've encountered playing online on PS3 are mostly comprised of the trash-talking, hard-to-understand, baby-crying-in-the-back people that are associated with the stereotype. Use a headset if you have friends on PSN that you WANT to talk to.
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