Please mute chat by default

Season 9 Blows·3/20/2019, 4:53:07 PM·6 votes·3,728 views

Riot, can you please mute chat/all chat by default. I know communication is important, but I think I have lost more games due to flaming than won games due to teams coordinating via chat. Just make the feature one where you have to actually manually activate it in games. I know it sounds stupid, but having that extra barrier i think would go a long way.

Edit- I feel like I am not communicating this well. I have no problem pushing the mute button, however i cannot make my other teammates who are flaming each other press mute. THAT is what i am getting at. On top of it, communicating in chat in general doesnt really help win the game in most situations, but it does often aid in a loss.

28 Comments

Rester3/20/2019, 5:26:49 PM3 votes

I mean... I wouldn't mind having a checkbox to disable chat entirely. Some games already do it and I'm disappointed Riot has not followed suit. The ping system is already there for communication and does its job fairly well frequently from my experience.

GatekeeperTDS3/20/2019, 5:11:44 PM3 votes

There are settings in the menu to disable /all chat. You can individually mute anyone you want.

Riot is not going to cripple communication for anyone by default. Just as the responsibility is on you to tune out things IRL, it's your responsibility here too.

RAKCUS3/20/2019, 4:57:18 PM2 votes

I believe /all is already muted by default because it makes sense to not listen or trust the enemy team chat. Muting your own team mates doesn't make sense unless you feel their messages are doing more harm than good. But I don't mind them adding the option to mute chats as soon as game starts.

FireCookie3/20/2019, 8:55:13 PM1 votes

You can change your chat size in the config to -1000, then make it read only, have fun, helped me when i raged to much.

PresBushDid7113/21/2019, 12:02:20 AM1 votes

The hard leash was just one example of many and no they can't be communicated through pings unless your team, for some reason, turn the pings into langauge. Alright guys if I ping the dragon, double question mark top and do two "on my way" pings to bot tower with in 5 seconds of each other it means I'm going infernal after red, top look for the tp play, bot push out hard and rotate. As I said, a lot of game talk happens and you don't even notice it because you shouldn't , it's just part of the game. However, that one game out of ten that the support is flaming the adc constantly is going to really stick.

Jo0o3/21/2019, 1:19:03 AM1 votes

Honestly, I'm always the guy who says that my ability to shotcall shouldn't be penalized just because toxic players can't keep it in their pants, but I'm really coming around to this line of reasoning. Chat in this game is feeling like a lost cause these days.

It's really sad that I've been playing about 100% URF lately, and people still feel the need to flame each other over mistakes. It's a for-fun game mode that usually takes much less time than regular games, involving players using champs that they're often extremely unfamiliar with, yet half my games involve the classic "Report X for trolling" any time somebody has a negative KDA.

So Sorry Eh12/23/2019, 3:57:38 PM1 votes

I get what your saying in this thread, I've been playing since season 4 and I'm at the point where I'm tired of the negative chat. I like chat in game, but when its constantly negative its sucks the fun out of it. Think i'm going to auto mute people for a while and see if the fun comes back. Its tough though because when its positive it can make the game a lot more fun, just like you said its led to more losses than wins.

CharDeeMcDenniz3/20/2019, 6:18:52 PM1 votes

counterpoint: please dont

PresBushDid7113/20/2019, 7:30:54 PM1 votes

It's highly more probable that you just remember the negative and discount the neutral chat. How about the jungler asking for a hard leash? That one move doesn't auto win the game, but might set them up to gain their power spike earlier.

How about the jungler saying red, scuttle then mid gank? Once again not game winning on its own, but it does give time for the laner to set the table for a gank.

You are right you don't HAVE to communicate to win, but it can make it a hell of a lot easier. I play a lot of supp, and it's pretty obvious when the opponent bot lane is in voice chat together.