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I've Noticed Something About The Voice Chat Drama

Doaenel··3 votes·251 views

The people who do not want it, for the most part, don't play ranked.

Now, i respect all players opinions, and in most issues playing ranked does not make a difference on your view, however in this case, it does.

Pros

  • Faster rotations to baron, sidelanes, objectives, and picks that would not be as fast without comms such as voice

  • Ability to communicate with team throughout the game faster than with the chat and ping system, some people do not look at chat or minimap most of the time.

  • Allows players to be on the same page in respect to playstyle, engages, towerdives, etc...

  • People realize there is a person behind the computer. This may seem like an idiotic thing to say, but it isn't. Most of the time people get mad (myself included) over a player's ineptitude in certain respects. This has caused me to flame them, back in season 5 I even received a 100 game chat restriction because it got so bad. However, I can honestly say I have never said anything mean to people over voice comms. It is easy to forget about what a person may be going through if you're in your promos and they are underperforming. However with the introduction of voice comms, most of these keyboard warriors (myself included) will either just ignore it and play out the game or just try to tell the person to step it up a little, instead of saying very nasty things to them through chat system.

  • It introduces a completely new aspect to the game. A few months back i tried out to join a semi-serious platinum level team, and honestly, with all people on voice comms trying their best to win the game, it feels like a new game. The shotcalling and decisions, as well as the common goal of all people to win the game makes the game much more intense and fun to play.

  • Longer games. With both teams having a huge amount of communication potential, games will become longer from the sheer fact that both teams can react in time to the opponent's calls. I've experienced this with my semi-serious team.

Cons

  • Toxicity. This seems to be the root source to all people's concerns. While I agree this might become an issue, I think that in this sense, the pros outweigh the cons. You see, I don't think many people who are dedicated to ranked are inherently toxic. There are just emotions running high, and sometimes passion gets the better of most people and things start going south. This is where the line between ranked and normals comes into play. For most people who play ranked, voice comms would be a dream come true, because an adverse affect of it would be higher winrates and more enjoyable games from a competitive aspect. However those who play normals do not see voice comms in this light, and see that the casual players who only play the game once in a while would be toxic. Both views are right in this sense, I believe that ranked will become much more enjoyable while normals may become more toxic, only time will tell.

TL;DR

Normal games may become more toxic while ranked games will become much more enjoyable to the competitive player, however only time can tell what the outcome will be

5 Comments

UnboundHades2 votes

its like chat doesn't exist and ranked isn't just the same exact map with the same champions just different after game scores. and duos don't use any form of communication

Shuyin1781 votes

Chat doesn't exist with people auto-muting it when they spawn into game.

Doaenel1 votes

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its like chat doesn't exist and ranked isn't just the same exact map with the same champions just different after game scores. and duos don't use any form of communication

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that, can you specify?

N Komaeda2 votes

The biggest problem I think there would be is if there are people who don't use Voice Chat, correct rotations won't go through, and as such, will cause split opinions. I think there should be an unanimous vote for Voice Chat, because if even 1 person doesn't want it, it can completely mess up your game.

DemainaNyx2 votes

Faster rotations to baron, sidelanes, objectives, and picks that would not be as fast without comms such as voice

You can ping the Baron and ping OMW. Most people are smart enough to understand that means that we should finish taking the mid tower we are all hitting and then go to Baron afterward.

Ability to communicate with team throughout the game faster than with the chat and ping system, some people do not look at chat or minimap most of the time.

If you aren't looking at the minimap, you shouldn't be playing ranked.

People realize there is a person behind the computer

That works for you maybe, but not for everyone. In Overwatch I played a game as Mercy, and was yelled at because I couldn't 1v1 a Reaper (imagine Soraka vs Fizz if you've never played Overwatch). Teammate said, "or you could help the Mercy instead of flaming them", so then this person started calling both of us slurs until I muted them. Watch some streamers, they scream and swear all the time. You really don't think clicking the push to talk button is going to hold them back from unleashing that on someone in their games?

All game modes will become more toxic cause there is no obvious way to determine if someone is toxic or not. Right now, if someone types "kys" in chat, it's obvious and we can program bots to read the text files and handle flagging the person. With voice chat, you'd have to have a person listen to the chat to determine if it's toxic or not.

Additionally, everyone speaks different languages. People already are toxic to people who type in different languages in chat, so do you think that will go away if the person speaks in a different language? Also, what happens if someone swears at you in a different language? At least with the above method, the bot can identify the cursing cause it knows what the words mean, whereas a person who doesn't understand the language wouldn't know to report the person so it can be reviewed.

What happens if you have a strange accent, or your voice is odd, or you're a girl? These are going to affect people in the game, either positively or negatively, whereas text/pings isn't affected by your voice.

Lastly, what if I don't want to or can't use voice chat? Now I'm isolated from the rest of the team who will probably forget to use pings because "well, we're all in voice chat, don't need this any more." This has happened to me before when paired with a 4-man premade or invited to join a discord but didn't want to join. Plus people will be upset if you don't use voice chat if the rest of the team uses voice chat (which again, has happened to me before).

If it's ever implemented, I won't be using it, so it honestly won't make a difference to me, but I would rather it not be added because I foresee it going badly despite all the, "It will be amazing" posts people make.

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