Playing on NA is a gamble most of the time. It's pretty often that i will find someone who either can't or can barely speak english (most of them speak toxicity well enough though). Is there any way we could get a language filter so we can be sure to get a team of people who will be able to effectivley communicate?
disregardable3 votesI've met like 20 people that couldn't speak English. Over ... 1500? games.
Wind sageus1 votesIt's just been happening more often in my ranked games (gold 4) and i feel it just gives an unnessecary difficulty curve to evenly matched teams.
Archon X2 votesyou know French is an official language of the NA server
EUW has to deal with a bunch of languages, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish... and they seem to do fine
honestly the smart pings are all the communication you need in a game
Wind sageus1 votesMore official languages would only give a bigger reason to add a filter. I don't see the detriment to one besides somebody having to write more code. They are already making a whole new client right now.
Drive By Max1 votesYou shouldn't need to be able to understand them as long as they ping.
I rarely run into them as well.
Espy Psyche1 votesThe main thing that people need to actually type for is suggesting items. This can be fixed if Riot would allow players to link items from the shop into chat.
Most English speakers abbreviate Infinity Edge as IE. Now, that doesn't make sense in French, where Infinity Edge would be called "Lame d'infini" and be abbreviated LI. In Spanish it's "Borde infinito" and abbreviated BI. So if you're telling your ADC to build an Infinity Edge or to rush it (or if they're Ezreal, not to build it), they can't figure out what item that is if you just say IE (or if they don't speak English, even if you type out Infinity Edge they don't understand).
But if we had a link, the English speaker with his English client could link Infinity Edge into chat, and it would come up as "Lame d'infini" to the French speaker or "Borde infinito" to the Spanish speaker. You could just shift click an item from your inventory or the shop to link it into chat and the issue would be solved.