Or they're just doing what WoW did, WoW if I remember correctly added in-game voice support for raids years ago, but dropped it because of lack of user uptake.
No one was using it because it wasn't as good or easy to use as already existing third party programs, so they dropped it. Riot is probably thinking the same, and can spend their resources elsewhere on something that isn't already done better by someone else.
WoW already had persisting social structures that lead to those groups setting up voice servers that provided them a lot more intricate controls. People who chose to speak in game had already assembled the infrastructure to do so, why use a worse system? I played Eve Online and it was the same scenario, every single group ran a voice server and often individuals did as well.
Contrast this to LoL where you're dropped into a game randomly with others random players for <60 minutes who you don't know but are forced to communicate with to maximize strategy. Communication is utterly critical yet the best option for doing so is slowly typing a message in a micro intensive game or a nondescript ping. The resulting player behavior is exactly as one would expect.
Maybe also they're taking their cues from Xbox Live and all of the raging that comes from a similar aged user-base dropped in with random groups and don't feel like enabling young kids the ability to tell random strangers to go kill themselves...
You'll always have outliers, but nothing stops those same kids from doing so right now with text chat (and probably at a higher rate). Mute functionality is there for a reason.
Just like they support via text based chat right now. It sounds like most of opposition to their reasons against voice chat really is just end-user whining.
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Or they're just doing what WoW did, WoW if I remember correctly added in-game voice support for raids years ago, but dropped it because of lack of user uptake.
No one was using it because it wasn't as good or easy to use as already existing third party programs, so they dropped it. Riot is probably thinking the same, and can spend their resources elsewhere on something that isn't already done better by someone else.
WoW already had persisting social structures that lead to those groups setting up voice servers that provided them a lot more intricate controls. People who chose to speak in game had already assembled the infrastructure to do so, why use a worse system? I played Eve Online and it was the same scenario, every single group ran a voice server and often individuals did as well.
Contrast this to LoL where you're dropped into a game randomly with others random players for <60 minutes who you don't know but are forced to communicate with to maximize strategy. Communication is utterly critical yet the best option for doing so is slowly typing a message in a micro intensive game or a nondescript ping. The resulting player behavior is exactly as one would expect.
Maybe also they're taking their cues from Xbox Live and all of the raging that comes from a similar aged user-base dropped in with random groups and don't feel like enabling young kids the ability to tell random strangers to go kill themselves...
You'll always have outliers, but nothing stops those same kids from doing so right now with text chat (and probably at a higher rate). Mute functionality is there for a reason.
And we've solved this problem ever since the invention of the "Mute this player" button.
Just like they support via text based chat right now. It sounds like most of opposition to their reasons against voice chat really is just end-user whining.