Andrei van Roon, a game director for Riot Games’ League of Legends, announced that the /all chat functionality (which allowed the player to converse with and/or berate the enemy team) will be disabled as a test to prevent “negative interactions”, forgoing the previous option of allowing the player to disable it if they so desired.
Andrei posted a tweet that summarized what they are planning, a test that they hope would keep opposing players from interacting by simply disallowing interaction, but they assure players that team chat will still be allowed:
The League of Legends site provides further details, that preventing speech altogether is a fair “tradeoff” to allowing some mean comments to pass:
While most of our focus around behavioral systems in 2021 has been on gameplay-based behaviors like AFKing and inting, we’ve heard from you that verbal abuse has been a rising problem this year, too. We’re working on a number of changes to systemically address this at both the League and Riot levels, but one direct change you’ll see soon is that in patch 11.21, we’re disabling /all chat in matchmade queues.
While /all chat can be the source of fun social interaction between teams, as well as some good-hearted banter, right now negative interactions outweigh the positives. We’ll evaluate the impact of this change through verbal abuse reports and penalty rates, as well as surveys and direct feedback from you all.
/All chat is the only thing being disabled. Enemies will still be able to hear and see your emotes and champ mastery (unless muted), as well as CTRL+1/2/3/4 spam. End of Game chat will still be cross-team. Allies will still be able to coordinate with each other in team chat.
Regarding that last one, we’re aware that verbal abuse happens in team chat too, so disabling /all chat won’t get rid of abuse altogether. But team chat also plays an important team coordination function, so the potential value it brings is much higher, even if it can also host some negative experiences.
We know this sucks for those of you who just want to compliment your lane opponent’s skin, or ask for a dance party in Baron pit. But we believe the tradeoff is worth it to cut down on the growing negativity /all chat has been creating in your games.
This rapid growth of oversensitivity will probably ensure the removal of team chat and possibly any form of social interaction altogether sometime in the future.
Hm…………there is a great invention out there that actually eliminates that “toxic behavior” and its called the following: Mute button.
And even if there is no mute button, grow the f♥♥k up. Oversensitive woke pieces of s♥♥t, thats why censorship still exists and it is more prominent today than it probably has ever been.
Even easier solution: don’t play this trash game at all. Stop giving money to the chinks and woke fags working at riot.
>woke fags
>having money
>disingneuous argument
Shooting in the mouth of toxic players pointing to their brains work much better. It has 100% success rate for the toxic player to never ever be toxic again. It works so well the toxic players won’t even be toxic outside League of Legends.
you didnt play LoL
Fucking children feels great and you should respect that.
Obvious random troll out of…somewhere!
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine
So you’re admitting you’re a subhuman ape by jumping on every thread here
@05:34
Counter? Looks more like an agreement to me. Snowflake leftists are all liars in that they will self-censor themselves to protect alleged fee-fees, denying their own ability cope with reality and hating everyone who is not an exact carbon copy of themselves.
This is exactly why leftists need to be exterminated
Generation of pussies. When the whole online gaming started, everyone talked so much s♥♥t towards each other. Guessing players in LoL can’t dance on the bodies anymore? Might hurt their already string like feelings.
They made us who we are today. If you were to make a degrogatory statement to younger kids today online or offline they would actually cry.
They had a hand in it yes but to say made is just shifting personal responsibility. Saying so is no different than when so many claim “It’s society’s fault.” so readily instead of owning up to one’s own shortcomings. Thanks feminism and by extension psychology.
So you blame psychology for anything bad that happens to you
But use psychology to abuse and gaslight others?
The most disingenuous comment yet.
Riot have learned well how to implement censorship from their Chinese overlords.
It’s too hard to click one button to mute public chat… i know it’s hard so they would rather just invite blatant removal of a basic chat system completely ! Glad i never played or ever play this pile of dogshit.
I’m not buying this “we’re eliminating or censoring chat because of toxic behavior” BS these companies are pushing. I think it’s a mass movement to control speech across the world. Toxicity is just an excuse.
If you’ve noticed, there are massive amounts of people getting fed up with the vaccine hoax and the push toward global communism (The Great Reset). To prevent people from organizing and spreading ideas, all avenues of communication must be heavily policed, even something as inconspicuous as in-game chat.