Voice comments are coming to League of Legends

After nearly eight years of rejecting the idea, Riot is finally adding voice communication to League of Legends.

It makes sense that Riot would strive to offer as many modes of healthy communication to its players as possible. Voice communication has been a staple of multiplayer and competitive gaming for as long as the realm of online gaming has existed. The logic behind Riot’s previous decision to withhold from voice chat still makes sense. Harassment and verbal abuse are already very prevalent issues within the League community. For voice comms in League to work, we have to be able to defend ourselves against this type of harassment. One solution that Riot is looking into would be pushing out voice comms as an “opt-in” system. This would mean that you would have to turn it on in order to use it, and likewise, you would have a way to turn it off or hopefully mute players when conversation gets particularly offensive.

Most developers of popular competitive online games offer built-in voice comms because their players want it. Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch, Valve Corporation’s Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, League of Legends however, has never caught up in that regard at now.

While there haven’t been many details revealed yet, Riot seems intent to push forward with the new feature.