Voice Communication In Game

ItsDolph300·Feb 11, 2020·2 votes·1,683 views

I want to know what Riot's reasoning for abstaining from a feature in every other competitive game. I feel it only creates problems, lack of communication causes frustration, and certain things can't be said with a ping. Like a Sylas that steals Nocturne mid's ultimate and rotates bottom lane. Maybe your team should know better when you ping this, but, if you could just tell them, wouldn't that make things so much easier? I feel it takes away from the competitive aspect of playing the game online. What's everyone else's standpoint on this?

7 Comments

Jng AccountFeb 11, 20203 votes

BuT tOxIcItY

AIQFeb 11, 20202 votes

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ItsDolph300Feb 11, 20202 votes

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This community is already uber toxic, do you really need a source this is difficult if not impossible to detect?

What makes your think that you would not end up muting them all as well, putting you back to square one except this time you can't report them since Voice chat is almost impossible to monitor.

It's not that Riot can't or is abstaining from it for some silly reason. It's just they are smart enough not to open that can of worms that surely has nothing but copper heads in it.

I already mute all (the game is a lot better you should try it) VC would be no different, Halo/OW/COD or pretty much any game with it suffers from the issue I mentioned above.

Is voice chat better? Heck yes. Can this community be trusted with nice things? Heck no.

The ranking system that was released was "better" overall. You climbed more accurate to your play style, it dealt with Autofill, it was nice. The problem was not how the system was intended to run, but rather the way toxic people could abuse it. Likewise VC is good, but toxic people will ensure it's a mistake.

It just seems counter intuitive, your thought process is like a mothers almost, is Riot the mom of the kids gaming? It's like saying okay, my son Nick has to go to private or home school, kids in his class might curse or even say mean things to him. So let's just never let Nick go to school and make him more anti-social in the process.

And if like you said there's a mute button then what's the issue? If someone really is that unbearable then mute them. Time to drop the baby monitor non-sense, there's a reason this exists in every other competitive game. You mention the ones with bad reps, but, in reality voice comms are in every game that's even somewhat competitive.

Also I'm trying to see how games like Halo, Overwatch and COD suffered? Crazy successful games, even in their primes with the toxic community. Like you said muting was an option and I'm sure that's what people did.

SaezioFeb 11, 20202 votes

I think we are approaching the matter in the wrong way.

Rename thread to "I would pay 10$ for voice chat"

Maybe we get the attention we want then

JamareeFeb 11, 20201 votes

The last time I played Overwatch about two years ago, it was a ranked game where me and my team wasn't doing well. I was Rein and couldn't really push forward from a choke because of how quickly my shield was being burst down, I was flamed, insulted, and told to hang myself through comms.

ProphetOfDravenFeb 11, 20201 votes

It's crazy how league has an older playerbase than games like fortnite overwatch cod but still has this baby sitter mentality. I guess the gigasilvers can't hear anyone talking about reality in their video games.