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Daily remainder that we need to know who has deactivated their chat

Lemexis·7/29/2019, 12:11:28 PM·5 votes·4,851 views

Hey,

So this new "disable ally chat" feature has been really well received, and while I won't use it myself, I'm glad people who need it have a more convenient way of disabling chat than just typing "/mute all" every game (especially when this function is bugged and will also mute signals).

However, I personally find that communicating through chat with my teammates is often very useful, especially in ranked, and that my winrate would suffer if I suddenly lost it. So, when someone struggles in game, I try giving advice (not rude pseudo-advice like "just build better you idiot", more like "we need to group up and avoid walking in the jungle alone" - I'm in bronze, so that's not common knowledge). And, especially when jungling, I often like to let people know precisely when I'm going to gank so that they can better prepare and know to just play safe and be patient.

Except that if someone has disabled their chat, I will just waste a lot of time typing in chat, and they will also miss out on information (since if I knew they disabled their chat I would try to find a way to communicate through signals). So I really need to know if someone plays without the chat, and I know a lot of people need it to.

So... Anyway, I know Riot games doesn't care about the boards, but who knows, maybe if many people really want that feature they'll eventually notice.

I added a poll because I was curious to see if some people disagreed, feel free to let me know what you think by taking it and by commenting below !

17 Comments

Quiet Dude7/29/2019, 12:55:15 PM1 votes

What happens if they don't have ally chat disabled, and they still don't respond/acknowledge you and ignore whatever you're trying to chat about? Seems redundant to add in a feature just to tell you who's ignoring you with this feature, when there just as many people ignoring you without it.

Riot can use the resources to help in other areas of the game, then try and shoehorn this in.

GatekeeperTDS7/29/2019, 1:18:05 PM1 votes

While your motivations are genuine, as to whether you should continue chatting if they've muted you, I think having this knowledge would upset more people. It's the same reason why you don't know if someone ONLY muted you. It's their choice to disengage and stop communication. Giving someone they're muting more information (I MUTED YOU) is not helpful in these situations.

Basically, if someone isn't responding to your chat, assume they just don't want to type to people for no particular reason, same as before the new mute ally chat feature was implemented.

Telephone Booth7/30/2019, 5:42:19 AM1 votes

Im surprised more people dont want to know this. Like just a notification when the game begins. "(Player name) has ally chat disabled". How does that piss anyone off? I dont get it :/ if they later enable chat, okay good. No harm done either way. Just a notifier at the beginning of the game, whoever has it disabled when the game starts. It doesn't have to notify people when they toggle it on or off, just a note of whoever has it off as the game begins would be nice.