PSA - Don't play on NA servers if you are unable to communicate

Kovah··5 votes·576 views

First of all, I don't know if its just me or if everyone is experiencing this, but I have seen a major lack of communication in my ranked games lately. People BARELY talk, and when they do, its just to flame everyone else on the team.

Second, PLEASE GET OFF THE NORTH AMERICAN SERVER if you either can't speak English, or you can barely speak English. I just got out of a game where a premade was speaking another language for the duration of the match. Do you know how annoying I would be if I went to an Asian server and didn't understand a word anyone said? Meanwhile I wasn't grouping and basically playing the game like it was single player. Just, stop.

And third, I am not going pro. I don't want to go pro, I want to have fun. Yes it's ranked, but this game is fun, and I only play games with other players because I enjoy how social they are. A few games ago I simply asked, "hey hows it goin" didn't get an answer, so I typed "?" and the only answer I get back is "stfu". Really? Would it kill you to be a little social? We have all been on that team where everyone is just having a good time, laughing, making jokes, poking fun and most importantly NOT RAGING while doing it. Those games are so fun, and I don't even care when I lose them, because I enjoyed the experience. People also tend to play better when they are in a good mood having fun. It's much easier to care more when you really like the people you are playing with, which leads to making better decisions and more collaboration between teammates.

TLDR: Communication makes this game easier, and more enjoyable. If you cannot communicate, or don't want to communicate, all you are doing is making the game less enjoyable and hurting your chances at success.

Edit: Stop saying "just use pings". Yes, you can just play the game using pings. My point wasn't that you need to speak the language otherwise you cannot play the game. I understand you can communicate with pings. But if I ask the question "Hey Lee can I have next blue" and he doesn't understand and takes it, that was clearly miscommunication caused by him not speaking English. You cannot dispute that not speaking the same language everyone else does in a team game doesn't hurt your ability to function as a team effectively.

Saying "there are other languages spoken in NA" is an argument for nothing, nor does it negate anything I said. The only people saying that are people who have a hard time speaking English and are now upset and want to pretend like they have a reason why it doesn't impact communication.

14 Comments

Deep Terror Nami7 votes

Speaking is not required in this game. Pings are more than enough for almost all your communication needs.

daemanic1 votes

so then what about the person that just caution spam pings all game how helpful is that trolls use ping to just irritate people

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

I don't see what that has to do with the topic. A person that abuses pings doesn't somehow mean that others need to be using chat.

Kovah1 votes

So you have never formulated a plan with your team? Using pings is effective, but that system can only go so far. Besides, the post was about gameplay as well as the multiplayer aspect. I just don't understand why people choose to be antisocial when they have such a good forum not to be.

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

It's not that communicating with your team isn't good, it's that people rarely actually use chat effectively for that. It simply is not necessary, and people abuse chat more than actually formulate strategy. It has nothing to do with being antisocial, this isn't League of Facebook.

That aside, saying someone needs to speak english just because it's an NA server is absurd. You can use this server from anywhere in the world, and even if you do live in NA there are many languages spoken here.

Kovah1 votes

League of Facebook? Do you realize how large of an exaggeration that is? Being in a game with friendly people having a good time is more fun than a game where nobody says a word. How can you take something so simple, and modify it into me saying I get on league to socialize, not to play.

The majority of people playing speak English. The argument that NA has many languages has nothing to do with that fact. If you don't speak English all it is doing is hurting, not helping. I really would like to hear how you can logically say that not being able to speak English on a mostly English server doesn't hurt you AT ALL.

EndlessSorcerer5 votes

North America is a continent.

On this continent, there are many people who speak many different languages.

Between Canada and the United States alone, there are three official languages (English, French, Spanish) and many others spoken among the population.

North America IS NOT an English-only server.

Kovah1 votes

Ur telling me if you don't speak English you can get a long JUST as well in the US as if you did? Ok.

EndlessSorcerer2 votes

I mostly just ping to communicate in games.

I usually just chat to banter. The only real exception are short clarifications (i.e. "bait", "warded") or encouragements (i.e. "gj", "just stall", etc) which would be simple enough to memorize anyways.

So pretty much.

Besides, if they live in North America, they are better playing there than they would be on EUW (or another server) due to ping.

legionnaire992 votes

The region is north America not just America in their countries where do you official language is English in north America so please stop crying and use the pinging system

Kovah1 votes

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The region is north America not just America in their countries where do you official language is English in north America so please stop crying and use the pinging system

Thanks for proving my point. That's not even a sentence haha.

legionnaire991 votes

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Thanks for proving my point. That's not even a sentence haha.

Did I say it was? You really shouldn't play video games online if that is the way you think ,Also I'm toxic as fuck so I don't use the type to chat system I don't wanna be banned, and also no don't be an idiot well that's about it

rtbf2103100951 votes

As many others have said, NA is North America. North America has 3 different Countries in it that all speak different languages. If you don't want to deal with the other countries language barrier then don't play.

Narvuntien1 votes

Have you considered learning another language so you could communicate with them? works two ways.

One day you could have faker on your team and not be able to communicate your game plans because you don't speak Korean... jks jks. :P.

I do agree there needs to be a massive improvement in the ping options, I want to be able to effectively communicate with them.

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