T has always been ALLchat and Y always TEAMchat?

NeoTokyo (hl2mod)
bind "t" "say_team"
bind "y" "say"

Counterstrike Source
bind u "messagemode2" //teamchat
bind "y" "messagemode //allchat

Insurgency (hl2mod)
bind "u" "say_start2 //teamchat
bind "y" "say_start //allchat

TF2
U Teamchat
Y Allchat
http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/List_of_default_keys

ofc some crap games like mw2 tried to mess it up and changed it to T -> allchat and Y -> Teamchat lool

but still hl1/hl2 had/have the oldest and best teamplay games and they used Y for Allchat and U or T for Teamchat

therefore it leads to a lot of confusion and we simply need an option to bind keys.
thats it =)

ps:
old games only had T for Talk cuz they never knew TEAMS :-D
and not every has T next to Y :-P

T for normal and Y for team is how it's always been for me.
Will be solved when you can bind controls, since that's such an obvious thing dev will get to it.

there is no Y in Team, but there is a T, and a Me, and an A

I always thought of Y as all chat, and U as team chat. That's the way it was in Quake...

Which it doesnt...

Because T is for talk, and has been that way in probably hundreds of games, for decades. T is your primary talk button. Y is for friendly chat simply because it's next to T.

If you want, maybe we could do it the Battlefield 2 way and have the J, K and L keys be for chat, team chat and squad chat respectively... if you think that makes more sense.

Because Source engine games are like that.

because Y is right next to T? it's like battlefield-style communication, brah.

Mostly because it doesn't matter?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here

Team Chat = T
All Chat = anything else, come on