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Riot ADD IN GAME VOICE CHAT FOR RANDOM GROUPS

Demented Lemur·5/24/2019, 10:44:55 AM·7 votes·2,216 views

I do not understand why in games voice chat has still not been added to the game for solo que. Every other competitive game out there has added voice chat functionality to their game in order to allow players to communicate with teammates. league, on the other hand, remains an anomaly.

The first reason that this is ridiculous is that if you go up against teams that have at least 2 people together it means they can coordinate plays and ganks better than you can without voice chat. This makes it so you at a disadvantage due to something that the other team has access to that you can't prevent. this makes it so you have to rely on pings which are only of limited use make coordinated plays more difficult than they have to be. some champs are even considered to be weak in solo q but good in pro play

Some champs have kits that require more coordination than others take Ryze, for example, abysmal win rate in solo queue yet in the pro play he's a contested pick. I don't know if there another reason for this other than the fact that his ult requires decent coordination amongst teammates which is difficult due to a lack of voice communication Ryze is not alone in this aspect. This means that despite an abysmal win rate in solo queue riot cannot buff him but he is arguably really as long as coordination is present. I played a few Ryze games myself and I can't name how many times teammates will ignore my ultimate because they don't know what my plan is. This means that this lack of voice chat actually affects game balance and limits some champions potential

The main argument against adding voice chat seems to be the issue of riot not being able to track the toxicity if people use voice chat and not wanting to force it on people who don't want to participate. Not being able to track this toxicity would arguably let toxic players get away with being toxic more often; however not being able to communicate with my team would create more toxicity bc were not all on the same page on when to fight and nobody follows up because they were not ready. If people don't want to participate voice chat or there is someone toxic they can simply opt out and/or mute the toxic individual and report him after other games do this exact thing and they have fewer problems than league does. This means that voice chat arguably has no effect on in-game toxicity.

In conclusion, the lack of voice chat in this game harms the game more than it helps. Adding voice chat to the game would allow teams to work together better. In losing games coordinated plays can often help turn a game around and make it less of a snowball when only one of the champs on the other team is ahead. This would ultimately make the game better and can be balanced around both solo queue and pro play better as there is not as big of a difference between the two.

16 Comments

Hammermancer5/24/2019, 11:14:26 AM3 votes

yo i'd rather them flame me in voice chat anyways, it'd make for great clips on my youtube channel :D

A girl Supp Main5/24/2019, 12:20:32 PM3 votes

DotA is much more toxic and people don't even be mean on the chat in DotA. I've only heard either nice people or people trying to shotcall on DotA, so I find it dumb that people say we can't add it because people will hurt our feelings. Even so you can mute them, or it could even be put in like HotS where you opt into chat. The people saying they don't want it literally don't even have to use it.

oBzAhKitty5/24/2019, 10:50:46 AM2 votes

Riot doesn't want to make the game harder for new players.

Because you know Communication is a skill :)

They already added a iron 4 we dont need a carboard 4

Saezio5/24/2019, 11:02:34 AM1 votes

I would like to see it implemented, but I don't think it will prove a success unfortunately.

People will just be making different calls. You can pretty much communicate everything with pings more efficiently. I still voted yes because I think it would make a lot of sense for it to exist especially in high elo and in bans and picks phase. It makes the game more of a "team game" like riot want it but sadly I don't think they have the balls to implement it.

Eleshakai5/24/2019, 1:31:27 PM1 votes

I'd like to start by saying I'm not concerned about toxicity via voice comms much. I'm concerned about having to deal with all the other random crap that people bring to voice comms that you have no control over if it's a random player.

  1. Background noise - I don't want to hear the fans of every person in the southern US because none of them have AC so they have fans 3 inches from their microphones.

  2. Extra people - I don't want to deal with your screaming kids in the mic wanting your attention while you ignore them to play LoL.

  3. Crappy Microphones - I don't want to have to strain to understand someone whose microphone(or mic settings) are so bad that all I hear is mumbles when they're talking.

  4. People who think their English is perfect so they talk constantly but you can't understand them at all because... well... they're wrong. (To be clear, I have no problem with people who know their English isn't very good so they try to keep it brief and to the relevant points, or they try their best to be as clear as they can... it's the people who THINK they speak perfectly but don't that annoy me)

  5. Splitting my team in half between the 'people who use voice chat' and the 'people who don't', leading to one group thinking we're doing one thing and the other thinking we're doing another and ruining teamwork even more.

There are so many distinct burdens voice chat brings when you're not doing it with a group you know that I'd just rather not deal with it.