Voice chat? Anyone?

MeBuffULongTime·2/27/2016, 9:49:07 PM·1 votes·493 views

So I'm just wondering why League so far doesn't support an integrated voice chat? I feel like the quality of play and overall teamwork could really be impacted by this. Especially if you got together with some people who didn't get all ragey and lose it lol. What I'm talking about specifically is to have the option to talk to your teammates automatically even if you are solo-queing. If you are playing with friends you have a bunch of options available to you to talk to them, but playing with random people doesn't really give you that option. Thoughts?

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Eagleheart2/27/2016, 10:10:35 PM1 votes

It's pretty divided, but it seems that a majority of people don't want to have voice chat, and those that do already use something like curse voice or skype.

Here's a few videos on how this turns out in other competitive games, and I'll leave it up to you if you want to experience this in league on a regular basis too. (Don't say you wont, you will. Trust me.)

Counter Strike: Global Operations

DotA 2 (Chinese)

Team Fortress 2

World of Warcraft

For full effect, put your best headphones on and max out the volume.

masterdragon4812/27/2016, 10:23:01 PM1 votes

I have a great reason for it. There is literally no reason for them to do so, the technology has already been implemented. It would be a huge time and resource investment for them to create something that already exists for players to use (curse voice). So if I could be allowed a question to you, what is stopping you from getting a curse voice call together with the random people on your team?

First of all, you are assuming the League client can handle a voice chat; its 5+ years old and when it was created it wasn't made in anticipation of what this game would become. For example, a few years ago Riot had to increase their number of servers to handle the number of people playing the game.

Also, the same problems would exist for a League voice chat; You are assuming that everyone is going to have mics for it and that everyone is willing to go into a voice chat with people. The thought process that some people can talk and others can't doesn't even hold water because, of course, the ability to mute people would still be an option. So, why should Riot create a system that already exists and will have the same problems that an existing system has? They gain nothing from it. It would be better for League to "endorse" curse voice and get more people comfortable about using that than it would be to create a whole new system.