Riot Games Disables General Chat In League Of Legends To Reduce Toxicity

Riot Games has announced its decision to disable shared cross-team chat for League of Legends matches. Thus, the developers want to reduce toxicity.

The change to League of Legends was part of Riot Games’ ongoing efforts to reduce toxic player behavior. After installing patch 11.21, users will no longer be able to open the general chat to communicate with opponents. Emotions are now the only way to communicate between teams during matches.

“While general chat can be a source of hilarious social interaction between teams and good-natured banter with rivals, negative messages now outweigh positive ones. Disabled only general chat in matches. And allies will still be able to interact with each other in the team chat, ”- said in an official message on the Riot Games website.

The studio notes that insults occur in the team chat, but the developers did not turn it off either, since it is necessary for team coordination and the benefits from it are much more than harm. Riot Games says that without a general chat, matches in League of Legends will only get better.

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