Riot, Give us a way to disable friends messages while in game.

Xikini·10/22/2018, 3:14:47 AM·5 votes·3,015 views

I still want to receive their messages, just not when I'm actively in the middle of the game.

We all have a couple of friends who just want to chat. but if I'm in the middle of ranked.. I don't want their conversation to get in the way of useful information from my teammates.

To get the most out of this feature we would want to add it a couple of different ways.

  1. A global option, for all your friends. ( Receive friend messages in-game? On/Off )
  2. A 'white list' of friends, who can message you regardless of global settings.
  3. A 'black list' of friends, who can't message you in-game, regardless of global settings.
  4. Chat commands, which allow us to change the status of a friend while in-game. 4a) -> /whitelist name -> /blacklist name -> /disable_friends_chat -> /enable_friends_chat

-> /squelch (over-rides all friend settings until the end of the game. Disables all friends from messaging you, regardless of whitelist / blacklist / global settings)

Just a couple of things off the top of my head.

I really hope this becomes a feature. It would be incredibly useful.

7 Comments

Pixie Storm10/22/2018, 7:23:19 AM2 votes

I second this. Shit is annoying to see.

Xion The XIV10/22/2018, 7:58:35 PM1 votes

I remember having fun with my friend and a few of us went and spectated his Bronze 4 rank game while we were 3 minutes behind we constantly gave him tips to help the him of 3 minutes ago such as wards that are already expired or how a Jungler is coming to gank him 3 minutes ago. I think it helped him in the end, because he had to constantly look at the chat which is next to the mini-map so he constantly was able to dodge ganks and bad mistakes he wouldn't see before not looking at the map.

Xikini11/14/2018, 8:18:45 AM1 votes

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