In Game Voice
Hi, all. Random GM nobody here. This is a topic that's been introduced and discussed nⁿ times, I'd like to reintroduce it. To preface, I have over 40 thousand hours in the game, accumulated over 50+ accounts (stopped counting), 40+ of which are permanently banned. I'm dead serious, unfortunately. To put it simply, this is an admission of guilt; I've flamed, raged, said some vile shit and so on, but I dealt with things in my life and learned, reduced my toxicity to mere "banter". Why I flamed? For starters, the game sucks, however the game not only sucks in terms of balancing, spaghetti code, dogshit MM, it also sucks in the form of communication. My fuse is short, I get tilted at the slightest mistakes, because realistically some of them shouldn't be made depending on the elo you're playing in. However, communication can prevent many of these things, how am I supposed to communicate to my low elo diamond Leona that she needs to apply pressure to the opposing lane, that even if she dies and we trade 1 for 1 the game is over. What really tilts me, truly to my core, is the fact I have no simple way of communicating things to my team. We've got some Alibaba quality pings, that are also not even spammable. I can't type (I type 140wpm btw) because there's things to actually do in the game, I can't walk back to turret and miss xp and gold just to tell my Leona to ward on correct jungle timer and not alcove. The simple, widespread solution accross every god damn video game is voice chat. Every game is toxic, to some extent. Hell, even Minecraft and Warframe are. You can NOT eradicate this, you can definitely reduce it but what are you achieving? More tilted players? Reduced playerbase? I haven't played this game seriously in 2 years as there's not much point. Add voice chat, add a mute option, make reports actually do something, so when someone flames they are exempt from voice for xyz amount of time, hell, give players the option to kick people out of voice by unanimous or majority vote. Lobbies from Diamond and up sometimes get in discord lobbies, providing a competitive advantage your team should also be able to have. Give people options. Make them be able to opt out of it, kick players or mute them, at this point with AI you could turn curses into funny words if you're this sensitive. If you won't listen to the players, at least listen to the money. I'd pick up ranked tomorrow, and put hours into the game if you actually added this, I'm sure many others would too. Give people permanent bans from voice chat or text chat, or at least insane durations. Make voice flamers have the low prio queue, annoy them. You can't really stop flame when I can just buy an account for 4 euros, get to Diamond in 2 weeks and just keep flaming. You're not even getting the money for the account, and I'm sure as shit not buying skins when I know eventually I'll get banned again. I'm on the players side, but I also understand this game prints money and needs to keep doing that, I can help print more of it. The WASD controls was a solid decision to revive some of the playerbase and bring in new players, but these decisions are being made decades too late. Just my perspective, would love to hear others opinions.
Also before I get flamed for "maining" adc I played adc, top and mid, all in GM elo.
Sorry for formatting, I'm an uncle on reddit mobile.
Mods removed last post even though I'm addressing the community, and asking for a feature.
Posted Aug 12, 2025, 5:45 PM UTC