“What are your thoughts on having an opt-in voice chat? Can we expect this in the near future? Every competitive game has this feature because communication is a fundamental of competitive team games. With the decrease in carry potential and snowball effect, the LoL meta has become more teamwork oriented. It only makes sense to add the option to be in voice chat. Without voice chat, a player is unable to communicate effectively using only pings on typing. It is just too slow to type win condition.”

I always answer this by predicting that we will add integrated voice at some point. (This is not an announcement to look for it in an upcoming patch.)

The reason we haven’t prioritized it higher is that players who care about voice comms do have a lot of third-party solutions that work for them, and in fact, we would have to make sure a first-party voice solution had superior features to those more generic solutions to really justify players switching over.

That’s not an excuse to never add voice. It just means when you’re prioritizing features, it feels like it takes us from say a 3 to a 6 out of 10 rather than from a 0 to a 6 out of 10.

2/27/2017