It is a lot easier for someone to talk shit to another person over text than it is talking to them. Voice chat is already being used by a lot of players through secondary sites so why not just add it to the game, the benefits outweigh the costs in my opinion.
Oh yeah, no one has ever been vulgar over voice chat. I too remember playing CoD with very sane, friendly individuals who used voice chat to communicate ideas on the state of the game and how best to win it.
League is supposed to be a very open game, anyone can start it, it's really easy to make an account and its really optimized so toasters can run it, they probably don't want to alienate new potential players with a headset requirement
Or they create voice chat and there's no headset requirement you just use your laptop microphone or something and you just have noise bleeding into the voice chat, it'd be a nightmare for people who are sensitive to noise
And we've had plenty of instances where some kid is excessively vulgar on voice chat (x box live, good times) so while the toxicity might be less frequent it'll be more agressive and potent when it does occur
Voice chats is probably more of a when then if at this point but it's got some problems that need to fixed 1st
They tried it and toxicity went up by a huge margin.
Voice would make the game just go nuclear. Every game I have played where voice was enabled by default was a mess of hate speech and toxicity. (World of Tanks had it for a while all filters of head to fingers are removed and f words fly)
The thing is, they have written, catalogued record if someone is toxic via written chat, whereas with a voice chat, it turns into a he-said-she-said type of argument that cannot be proved either way. So unless someone gets consistently reported for toxicity when using spoken comms, there's really no way for Riot to enforce etiquette and sensibility in the game if a voice chat goes live. And frankly, I'd rather keep it without voice chat, because there's more incentive to not flame someone when you have to cease playing and put yourself at risk long enough to type as opposed to some little shit losing his mind at you and yelling in your ear. Plus, it won't ever stop trolls, rage quitters, and AFKs.
Because listening to preteens scream obscenities at my ear is going to make things less toxic.
