League of Legends developers have spoken out again about the chat verification update.
It has not been said for a long time that League of Legends is one of the most toxic games. The title has a huge player base, and on top of that it’s free, so you can meet practically anyone in it: from nice people to trolls or people who have trouble holding back negative emotions.
Virtually every LoL fan has experienced triggers or toxic behavior in in-game chat at least once. Riot wants to combat this and has long stressed that systems are being improved all the time to catch vulgar and abusive speech.
More improvements in the fight against toxicity
Riot has made a statement about the chat verification update in League of Legends. The official statement shows that the system will work even better. At one point, the developers even claim that updating text verification will help catch as much as 20 times more toxic behavior.
The long-awaited upgrade to League’s text evaluation service we discussed earlier this year is being released with this patch! For a long time we’ve recognized disruptive chat in League of Legends, but haven’t been able to target it as effectively as we wanted to because of the challenge of separating disruptive chat from well-meaning chat, especially chat which is marginally disruptive. With our new systems, we can more effectively identify the nuance between more egregious chat and less-severe, but still inappropriate, chat.
With these improvements, we are expecting an increase of disruptive chat detections of over 20x. As a result of the significant increase in detections and penalties, we will be carefully monitoring these new systems to ensure their accuracy.
- Penalty ladders will be upgraded accordingly to match the new severity tiers we can detect
- Players who are chat restricted will no longer be able to send any messages to other players in game (DMs will still be available)
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