League of Legends devs are switching off /All Chat to battle toxicity
League of Legends patch 11.21 is just around the corner, with the incoming update due to bring a batch of new Dragonmancer skins, balance changes, and more to the live battlegrounds next week. Riot Games has now announced that another, significant update coming with the patch is the removal of the MOBA game's cross-team chat feature, /All Chat.
"In patch 11.21, we're disabling /All Chat in matchmade queues," the studio announces in a blog post, with the reason behind this being the reported increase in verbal abuse this year. "While /All Chat can be the source of fun social interaction between teams, as well as some good-hearted banter, right now negative interactions outweigh the positives," the developer explains. "From what we've been seeing, All Chat's really heavy on negative interactions and doesn't have that much positive at this point, unfortunately," game director Andrei 'RiotMeddler' van Roon further explains on Reddit.
It's worth noting that this is just a temporary removal for now. The studio says it'll be evaluating the impact of /All Chat being switched off on rates of penalties and reports of verbal abuse, and look at surveys and direct feedback from the community, too.
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