In Modern Warfare 2 was party chat op de Xbox 360 uitgeschakeld bij verschillende gamemodi om te voorkomen dat spelers van verschillende teams met elkaar konden communiceren. Dit tot grote ergernis van vele gamers. Daarom vroeg MTV in een interview met Robert Bowling hoe het nou precies zit bij Modern Warfare 3.

Robert Bowling, community manager van Infinity Ward, vertelde dat het heel lastig is de goede keus te maken omdat er heel veel verschillende soorten gamers Modern Warfare 3 gaan spelen. Bowling:

"When designing multiplayer, especially 'Modern Warfare' multiplayer, you have 30 million people [playing]. They all are very different. You have guys like you, playing just for fun, just want to jump on there and have a good time. You have your hardcore competitive guys. You have your casual guys that maybe are competitive, they're just not as good. It's all about delivering a platform to allow you to have fun the way you want to have fun without hindering the other audiences.

A major focus of 'Modern Warfare 3' multiplayer is allowing you to have a lot more control over [how you play], looking at those restrictions and doing away with stuff like [Party Chat blocking] that's super hardcore. It's about giving options. We will have places where competitive guys go where you might have restrictive voice chat. And then you have an option to maybe play that same mode without the same restrictions if that's the type of player you are."

Daarna vertelde hij dat hij eigenlijk vindt dat party chat alleen geblokkeerd moet worden bij Search and Destroy, omdat je daar maar een leven per ronde hebt en dus gemakkelijk vals kunt spelen.

"The only place where Party Chat should be blocked is Search & Destroy. In that mode, players are given just a single life per round, so those attempting to cheat with Party Chat would definitely give players an advantage. It wouldn't, however, be blocked for modes like Dom[ination]."