Add it. Anything that makes communication easier.

I think the system is fine the way it is. It promotes people joining FireTeams before doing activities, especially those that want to use voice-chat. I been playing WarFrame recently. There is a matchmaking system and you automatically have voice-chat. Nobody ever talks and some you can hear their mic on, when I try to talk to them they don't respond I just hear them breathing and background noise, don't ask me why they have their mic on then. Right now yeah everybody is gun-ho about it but what most don't realize is people just jumping in a game to have a little fun usually don't talk to other people. You are asking for a feature in a couple weeks only a selected few will use. Could there be better ways for people to communicate or group up with? absolutely! I just don't think proximity chat will be as useful as people think. For now you can click on people you are looking at and can invite them to group. Maybe send a message to their PSN or XBox account first and trying to talk to them. Take advantage of the tools we have and hope something better comes along. I didn't vote yes or no, I am not against it I just don't see it being used. It's one of those things that sounds better on paper. Is it really going to worth the time to develop and test when they got other stuff they could work on?

I don't really care about voice chat but I really want some kind of ability to communicate with other players.

[quote]there are a lot of arguments for and against voice chat.[/quote] Not wanting an on-on-by-default, public, or proximity, chat is not the same as not wanting voice chat. I don't think there's been one post saying that there shouldn't be voice chat. Adding an on-by-default public/prox chat means not only extra programming to get it to work right but also some way to mute/report harassing individuals. Then there's the question of what to do with all the players that get repeatedly muted/reported. The Fireteam chat answered for that possible issue quite nicely; it was invite/request to join and whenever you were ready to leave it, you could. The suggestions to simply 'mute all' would work just fine except not everyone is worth muting and if I mute everyone then I've just opted out of almost all possible social interaction. I didn't cast a vote in this poll because I think it oversimplifies the issue. There are specific things about the Fireteam only chat that should probably be revamped/added to make it the ideal system it strives to be. Loading into a team event(PvP, Strikes, etc) should automatically be the same as a Fireteam. Why it wasn't; I don't know and maybe there was some technical reason to send people to orbit and back(?). "Public Event Chat: On/Off" in the settings so that linked guardians can coordinate during public events. Fireteam settings could be kept separate and remain unchanged before and after the event. Joining a Fireteam should be a seamless interaction. Again, there's probably some reason that it involved a trip to orbit and back but I have no idea what it could be. The chat debates aren't simply about 'yes' or 'no.' There's more to it than that. There are specific reasons people have for wanting prox chat. There are possible answers to those reasons that aren't implementing prox chat. The specific reasons for not wanting it are pretty much answered by the system that's already in place.

If you see an invisible enemy sneaking up on someone, as you describe, there's nothing to stop you start shooting the enemy yourself, without the need to warn the player :) Open chat for teams is fine, not so sure for general exploring and running around the areas - too many disparate, unconnected voices could become abit of an aural mess

I completely agree with this. It's all about giving people the choice. It will help teamwork if someone does not have a mic but can still hear the other person or people. I think something along these lines needs to happen.

Democracy is always better than dictatorship. Simple.

makes a lot of sense and its simple don't see why they cant add this in the game