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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5287662" data-attributes="member: 7883">The way that 360 live works just makes sense to me.  Now....I don't know if that's simply because I'm used to it....but having one environment that everyone is in, one set of chat software, and being able to talk to friends inside and outside of games...these things are all super useful.Maybe MS just spent a lot of time and research making this environment as well-thought out as it is.  On the surface, you'd think Sony and Nintendo would make their own systems just as user friendly online...but I guess it's far easier said than done.Having been playing Borderlands for almost a week now, I can say that there's definitely a difference between how the online performance works, from game to game.  But even though the chat functions, I'm surprised to find how many people seem to want to talk online.  I'm personally not an aggressive player...but I've had people jump into the game, and sometimes you can tell they've got a mic because you can hear a keyboard clicking in the background, but they don't say anything.  They'll just have their character jump up and down to indicate you should come and look at something.  I'd think it would be much easier to just "say" something.  On the other extreme, sometimes XBox Live can be obnoxious.  It's cool some days, and other days you get people swearing at each other, calling each other names, or saying nothing, but flooding their speaker with annoying rap music.Banshee</blockquote>

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