Xbox Twitch Streams and why game chat can not be heard

JamieTheGee · Mar 5, 2019

I've been streaming through the Xbox Twitch broadcast feature and I've been enjoying it. Until I looked back into one of my streams to find that nobody in my streams could hear the other people in game chat.

Ive been told this is due to 'Privacy Issues' and I think it is pretty stupid all I want to do is stream whilst playing with randoms so they can be heard.

It's ironic that PlayStation do not have the same issue.

Please can you sort this as it completely ruins everyone's streams

:)

JamieTheGee

But it's not in the party just in the game

The Viral Cyrix

Its down to your party members to opt in to have their chat broadcast.

XBF Chris J

Hello Jamie,

Thanks for keeping us updated. It is the same for in game, or party chat. The gamer has to choose whether they opt in to having their voice chat broadcast. It is very well a privacy issue.

I believe that ability to choose whether or not your voice chat is being recorded and broadcast is an important feature on any platform. However, if you would like to voice your opinion/ideas, I encourage you to post them here :
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Thanks again!

AWildYamiEnters

Yup it is. I know some people that stream will remind me and others to opt in (this option should be in the Party menu) if we want his stream to hear the rest of us.

Gerardo CG

Hi again.

If I'm not mistaken, Twitch is the only app on Xbox that allows you to broadcast live. So yes, the limitation applies only to Twitch. However, if there were other similar apps, I imagine the same restrictions would apply. This limitation is likely due to privacy, which is why members of party chats must give permission for their voices to be heard.

Certainly, a capture card should work to stream the full audio from your console to Twitch without that restriction, allowing internal game chat to be heard.

Xbox Twitch Streams and why game chat can not be heard