Riot: Can We update a simple but necessary function in League: The Friend Request?

Azadethe··13 votes·1,062 views

Hi Riot/readers!

As my title suggests, I have something I want to see improved on my mind, and I think most players and most staff would probably agree with me on this.

So hear me out.

I've been playing since Season 4, through at least 3 incarnations of the Game platform. Sadly, as Riot has elaborated and made the platform more accessible, and generally more friendly overtime, there's one feature that I believe is still extremely restricted, base, and could be vastly improved in a minor patch/text box upgrade: The Friend Request.

Status Quo: You can only type in or right click a "potential friend" and send them a request.

You Cannot: Leave a note telling them who you are, where you know them from, or various alts.

So.... when a potential friend sees a name they don't remember, or who is an alt account of someone they DO know, all they see is some unaffiliated stranger.

Could Riot Perhaps add a text box to introduce yourself, so a friend can make better decisions when friending or ignoring a request candidate?

I believe adding such a feature would vastly improve player's experiences with the feature.

9 Comments

Rip Rengo 20165 votes

My favorite is getting friend requests from a rager via last game... can't help but laugh. :) But yeah that would be neat !~

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Or we should be hyped on the kinds of messages they would put before adding you.

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Raven Redeemed1 votes

Sounds good. They would maybe need to disable the message feature if you recently played a game with someone to avoid the whole hate mail thing (plus you would know who the person is if you just played with them so you wouldn’t really need a message if it was a legit friend request).

Azadethe3 votes

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Sounds good. They would maybe need to disable the message feature if you recently played a game with someone to avoid the whole hate mail thing (plus you would know who the person is if you just played with them so you wouldn’t really need a message if it was a legit friend request).

I don't think a 2-3 line memo would really allow people to exploit hate mail, if Riot just didn't allow you to send multiple readable requests at the same time. They could also make it so that the reader has the opportunity to block someone from the Friend request too.

Athenes Lulu3 votes

Make them as long as statuses are, or shorter if necessary.

25 characters is more than enough space to tell who you are.

Mätthew1 votes

I get friend requests from random friends on alts and cant tell who they are

koshkyra1 votes

Cant wait to open a message saying "lol trash kys die i fucked ur mom" etc

(But yeah this would be a cool function)

Azadethe1 votes

Now if only we could get a Mod confirmation of interest in the thread! (Mods? Mods? What Say You o.O?)

(Feel Free to upvote the thread while voting if you feel like getting it some attention)

Arcane Blue Boi1 votes

Hi im that varus from last game

Totally yeah

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