How to implement Voice Coms in this game with respect to Player Behavior?

Woook3r·Apr 15, 2016·3 votes·593 views

Yea. I just wanted to see some opinions of ppl on how riot should deal with raging if they give voice comms.

12 Comments

ErdrikApr 15, 20161 votes

My initial thought is to make the punishments harsher and swifter, since vocal verbal abuse is a bit more ... intense than text base verbal abuse.

But then Im thinking how the "voice logs" would go. I imagine alot of these players don't really hear themselves when they rage out loud. Id wager a lot would have an equally more intense reaction to hearing how and what they say... (when their punishment sends their voice logs their way)

Psychotic PoroApr 15, 20161 votes

Push to talk, push to talk.... That means that if you start yelling at your team holding down an obvious key then you ARE KNOWINGLY raging and abusing your teammates.

ErdrikApr 15, 20161 votes

There is a difference between knowingly raging, and hearing your rage. Typically people who are that pissed don't realize just how horrible they sound when they go off. From what I understand it is similar to not smelling your own farts or B.O., the more primal it is the more likely the mind will ignore the details of its own actions.

They know they are raging, they just don't realize the severity of how bad they are raging.

Woook3rApr 15, 20161 votes

I actually like that idea a lot. It might stop me from saying something I dont want recorded. I usually dont say really bad things to ppl. But I often want to call someone a stupid c***

I also thought that the game might spawn an in fountain or in grey screen message asking you if you would like to mute someone who's mic volume is registering excessively high, as that would indicate a rager or someone trying to injure your ears.

Psychotic PoroApr 15, 20161 votes

Built into most programs that record audio or make VOIP calls fluctuate the volume to stay at a nearly even level... Not sure how well that'd work but they could def put in a decibel maximum cut off

Magnum MackApr 15, 20161 votes

The same way I do in chat. Muting.

Psychotic PoroApr 15, 20161 votes

As far as banning and stuff goes? Have all games be recorded until the end, when match is over if someone ticks Voice - Harassment/Hate Speech (whatever's there now, just with voice before it), have details like what happened in game and around what time into it when it was present, then whole audio w/replay is recorded OR it gets saved +&- 5 or 10 minutes of the time they stated in report (to give for possible error in time reporting - so you can use roundabout time), and then reviewed.

Either that or an in game hotkey (or integrate to the mute button) you can press to save the last 5 minutes of chat audio and report + mute on the spot.

If no one reported under the voice column then the voice auto is discarded/erased so it doesn't sit around taking up space.

MyrmironApr 15, 20161 votes

Give you the option to mute.

That's it. Also as someone who's been playing online games since forever, flaming and toxicity doesn't happen nearly as often in voice chats, as it does in text based chats. Most flaming really only comes from a lack of communication if you break it down, so voice chat would likely even help reduce toxicity.

Woook3rApr 15, 20162 votes

Thats exactly what I think. The other day, I was winning bot lane till about 8 min when kat roamed to our lane. The lysandra had pinged MIA, but it was pretty intense down there and I missed it. So I politely asked lysandra to ping directly on our lane. I did not flame her. I just asked using normal words, but she and our entire team interpreted it as me blaming her for my mistake.

This is what I said, "Hey lysandra, could you ping directly on our lane?". Yes I know I could have phrased it even better, I could have tried licking her balls too, but I shouldnt have to do that. Everyone just misinterpreted the comment because its text based and somehow thats a thing. Text based comments are interpreted differently than verbal comments.

MyrmironApr 15, 20161 votes

Now imagine that this problem wouldn't even come up in the first place with a voice chat since she could have told you directly what's happening instead of relying on pings.

DefNotABotApr 16, 20161 votes

Wouldn't it be fun if Riot could record all voice chat used in game and had to listen to each conversation in order to determine if someone was being toxic or not? I can just imagine some guy spammed sex sounds at max volume and some riot guy had to listen to that.

Poor Rito

FovereApr 16, 20161 votes

Who the hell would want to subject themselves to this crap?

Like Riot's draconian, arbitrary, policies aren't oppressive enough as it is? This game used to be about having fun, not who gets reports at the end of the game