Built in voice chat

Snek Only·4/6/2017, 3:14:01 PM·2 votes·941 views

Riot games, as a reformed player myself I have an extreme amount of respect for your system of stopping toxicity among our formations. As a very long time league player, (as well as other games that incorporate voice chat) I think it's time to integrate this. That fast twitch, knee-jerk reaction voice communication that is instant provides a level of trust and team play competence otherwise impossible. In my experience, internet ragers are far, far less likely to flame someone via voice chat. I could be wrong about this. Every time I end up in discord or curse voice, you end up getting along with that person and forgive their mistakes just that little extra, because they can hear your reaction. Allowing people who don't want it to disable this function seems like a win win situation. Community thoughts?

8 Comments

Lil Lewd Witch4/6/2017, 3:24:40 PM3 votes

As a long time player of this game... I would probably never utilize an integrated voice chat without being in a pre-made lobby. It's one reason why I stopped playing Overwatch so quickly, you get flamed for not using it and then flamed while using it. Then you're just back to muting and ignoring people and have nothing

DrCyanide4/6/2017, 3:37:55 PM2 votes

Allowing people who don't want it to disable this function seems like a win win situation.

The problem I see with it is that the communication will become worse than it currently is if you don't use the voice chat while 3-4 members of your team do. People will ping less and less, or they'll use the generic blue ping and say what it means, leaving those who can't hear them in the dark. If communication for those not using voice chat becomes worse than it is now, that's a problem.

Voice chat being a good or a bad thing is very dependent on the community using it. There are some communities which it's absolutely great to be on voice chat, there are some which aren't. While I don't mind hoping on voice chat with a group of friends or for a tournament, the idea of having each and every League match be on voice chat doesn't sound appealing to me.

Redesignated4/6/2017, 4:49:57 PM2 votes

In my experience, internet ragers are far, far less likely to flame someone via voice chat.

Your experience is such an extreme outlier it's uncanny. Voice chat is the pinnacle of flaming, because you don't even have to stop using your abilities/moving/whatever the letter keys do in whatever game.

Riot has already said they intend to incorporate voice chat at some point in the future. Personally, I feel like that either means they've just given up trying to control the toxic shitfest that is their playerbase, or they have something special in mind for it, like the make-your-own-team concept they said they want to look at in one of the recent /Dev videos. Either way, I won't be using it, and I'm not looking forward to how it's going to screw with the game.

Akenero4/6/2017, 5:33:38 PM2 votes

I rarely see flamers in my discord, but the communication for those not involved with it makes voice chat hard.

Hauling Ashe4/6/2017, 5:40:03 PM1 votes

Have you even heard of CoD? Overwatch?

If people are upset at how players don't get punished now for flaming, how do you expect Riot to be able to review literally millions of hours of voice chat logs a month for flamers, racism, etc? And you know that's not going to happen. No one can (and may not even be legally permitted to) maintain that much data in voice logs and spare that much manpower to keep the game clean. People will be getting away with even more than they do now.