Party chats are no longer independent voice chats. Now, instead, voice chats are tied to message groups. This has quite a few blatant problems.
Namely: Inviting any player to a party chat now adds them to a message group.
This means that if you have a party chat group with several of your close friends and want to invite another user to the voice chat (say a 1-off friend or a random user you meet while playing online multiplayer) they will also be added to the associated message group and can view all past messages.
This also means every time someone joins the voice chat they get added to a swelling message group. Besides the privacy issues, this also leads to huge message groups that you will get a notification for every time someone messages in. So you leave that chat to stop annoying messages. Now you won't be able to see party chats for that group. So you have to create a new message group every time your old one gets too big and annoying. And consequently, every time you invite a new user to your party chat, that message group and your messages are no longer private.
No more public/private party chat option.
Previously, the host could set the party to private and utilize kick permissions to moderate a party chat. Now, however, any one of the members can invite anyone else to that chat. The only person who can remove members is the chat owner. No, not necessarily the person who started the party (voice) chat, the person who started the message group. That means that if someone joins who shouldn't, and the chat owner isn't there to moderate, not only is the problem-causing user semi-permanently in your party (voice) chat, they're semi-permanently in the message group as well. You and your friends will have to leave the party chat and message group and start a new message group to get away from them.
These issues will lead to dozens and dozens of message groups with different permutations of users that get frequently abandoned. This was already an issue with messages. Now it will become a much, much larger issue. We have entered notification hell.
Other issues:
Community Party Chat feature is no longer working. Using PS communities to quickly find party chats/groups is over.
The Play Together feature has been removed (used to send party chat members game invites). This was a useful work-around for many games that lack robust in-game invites/friendslists.
Can no longer join game sessions via party chat.
Muting individual users in a party chat no longer stops audio transmission both ways. Muting users now only stops you from hearing them; not vice versa. If you mute a user, they can now still hear you.
Please post other issues so that I may add them to the list.
TL:DR
We have entered message group overload. Party chats and message groups were better off staying separate. Please revert these changes, Sony. 作者: peaceland 时间: 2020-10-15 11:39
