So many people have probably asked this, but I have seen it come up in dota 2 vs. league arguments, and I definitely think that we need a voice chat. Having played dota a bit myself, I found the voice chat useful, but aside from that, I feel that this game is far superior. Users often have to skype just to communicate clearly. so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add voice chat. Thanks for all your hard work to make this game awesome.
Kira Onime3 votesHad enough 12 year olds screaming at me on xbox live.
Snailed1 votesTHink about it.. on Xbox live you had how many people in your chatroom? 16? 32?
Now with LoL you have 4 other players on your team..If someone abuses you or makes a nuisance of themselves then you mute them.. they will soon regret it once they realize you aren't listening as there are only 3 people who respond.. It's not going to take much for him to realize the error of his ways.. He wont win games without the full co-ordination of your team as the other team is coordinating just fine and will outplay you over you dysfunctional team..
I can only see positives with Voice Chat ability in Lol. Much less toxicity.
Kira Onime2 votesI mostly played Halo were game modes are at 90% 4v4.
My point still stands.
ProfDrDeath2 votesNo. I don't want them to spend time on a feature which will be disabled by 99% of the playerbase anyways.
There are simply people I don't want to hear in my games. Like, ever.
Hyrum Graff3 votesThe feature could be disabled by default, and you could selectively decide who you can hear.
MackleDoge2 votesThat's too much burden of knowledge on new players. On top of that, adding another piece of networking into the League puzzle is a bad idea until they officially get everything sorted out with the new servers and the ISP issues that have been going on in the recent months. Adding more load onto a system that is seeing issues for some people has the chance to have bad impacts for a few, or at worst a drastically bad impact on everyone if just the slightest error is made.
Besides, we are ignoring the smaller issues this brings up. How do you decide who to hear? How easy is it to change? Can it be done on the fly without muting the player entirely? Can it be done in the load screen (to avoid people being nice until load screen then trolling like is done in quite a few games)?
If someone doesn't want to use this feature (or can't afford to get a mic or have anything built in to their rig to use) how do we quantify the impact on their fun in the game? Can we actually say that having a voice chat feature will improve the game overall for a strong majority, even though it's with a group of strangers? Can the community in general be trusted to not abuse this feature like they abuse almost everything else (including others in the community)? Will this lead to a lot of false reporting under the category of "Refusing to Communicate with Team" simply because a player doesn't want to use the voice chat feature?
Snailed1 votesSeriously this would reduce a shit-ton of abuse from players.
There are 50 or so sites that do team chat groups where you can just give people a web-link and they can join your room and chat during the game.. This should be very easy to write this into the game lobby . It auto creates a chat room for your team, and has a button you click on ie. [Click here to join your unique team chat] and then it loads up in the background or in your browser if need be..
So simple..
Also muting one player should be a simple keyboard shortcut.. ie Ctrl+123 or 4 or something..
MackleDoge1 votesLook at it this way, this thread has been posted over 20 times on GD and at least 5 times here on the CB. Every single time it has been downvoted because people don't want voice chat. Your opinion that it would be better, is quite frankly mistaken. I'm not going to repeat myself over and over to argue with you. This won't reduce abuse or toxicity. How's that for simple?
Crâne2 votesAll good points. I think it would be a viable addition to the game, despite the issue of 10 year old Teemos screaming about how they didn't get mid. That being said, there would definitely be a mute button, and if the team was actually working together, their performance would, I think, hugely improve.
Snailed1 votesA voice chat system is warranted.
I've been playing Counterstrike for 15 years and I never had an issue with muting people that abuse you or just be a nuisance. Some servers even would have 32 people on a server at one time (16 each side) and the mic spammers were a pain but once you muted them it wasn't an issue.
LoL only has 4 other people in chat.. Once someone gets muted by their teammates, they quickly realise that abusing any player while your muted isnt a great idea. When they then want that player to help them with an objective and they get ignored they will soon realise the error of their ways..they will think better about doing it again in the next game..
Seriously this would reduce a shit-ton of abuse from players.
There are 50 or so sites that do anonymous team chat groups where you can just give people a web-link and they can join your room and chat during the game in your web browser... This should be very simple and easy to write this into the game or chat client. When you enter the game lobby, it auto creates a chat room for your team, and has button you click on ie. [Click here to join your unique team chat] and then it loads up in the background, has a dropdown someone on the HUD where you click on them to mute/report.. (see World of tanks as something to take ideas from)
So simple..