Voice? Why's it this way?

Gotei 13 Aizen·3/27/2018, 1:17:05 PM·4 votes·1,138 views

Nobody needs an in-game voice program in League for their parties.

We have Discord for that.

The entire notion of putting voice into League to begin with is so that you can communicate with RANDOMS in your matches without having to stop and type or illustrate points outside of just pinging.

I'm sure someone is going to whine about "But someone could say something mean!" That's great, there are ways to handle that.

There can just be an option to disable voice chat altogether and you'll be playing just like the past 7 years or so.

You can have mute buttons for each player in case someone gets out of line.

But this is the one function it needs to serve, otherwise what was the point of implementing it at all?

62 Comments

Chermorg3/27/2018, 1:24:27 PM7 votes

So... Riot should implement a feature like Overwatch that would increase toxicity, be virtually impossible to police, and in a game like League would be basically expected to participate in lest you be blamed for a loss due to "he wasn't in voice chat so I couldn't scream at him"?

No thanks.

Many people can't run Discord at the same time as League - be it due to computer limitations or internet connection problems. In game voice chat limits the number of active connections that the computer is managing and thus may open it up to more people. Further, it's easier to just say "yo lemme talk to my friend" instead of having to switch to discord and set that up - unless you're playing a long time.

The Whamboozler3/28/2018, 4:10:50 AM2 votes

Dawg, if they put in voice it's gonna be toxic as hell. If they let people disable it, then a shit load of solo players WILL, making it more or less the same as if they'd only put it in for groups in the first place.

Now personally I feel the voice chat is pointless too... but I think they just shouldn't have bothered with it, not that they need to make it more inclusive. At least the slim chance of discord making them lag is one of the few advantages solo players MIGHT have over premades.

Vacus3/28/2018, 4:31:47 AM2 votes

There are zero circumstances under which I want to listen to random shits talking.

I don't even care if they're not being toxic, I don't want to listen to it.

But this being the League community, if it existed and I disabled it, my teammates would spend more time whining about how I disabled it than they would actually playing the game, and that would be bad.

Vacus3/28/2018, 6:37:24 PM2 votes

It's amazing how somehow, it turned out that the OP who badly wanted voice chat is a toxic raging piece of shit.

Who could have possibly predicted this????