{"id":87193,"date":"2026-09-23T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87193"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:48:07","slug":"riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87193","title":{"rendered":"Riot Is Pulling Voice Chat From League Of Legends 26.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">So close and yet so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap  lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2266017\/riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20\/\" data-post-title=\"Riot is pulling voice chat from League of Legends 26.20\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2266017\">\n<picture id=\"pb089ecae2ff68f6f496944dda4cb755a\">&#13;<source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20\/intro-1790116993.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20\/intro-1790116993.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20\/intro-1790116993.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2266017\/riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20\/\" data-post-id=\"2266017\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Riot is pulling voice chat from League of Legends 26.20: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Illustration showing five poros from League of Legends wearing headsets, as if they are chatting in the game.\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Riot Games<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>League of Legends<\/em> players might have been rejoicing after Riot Games said that team voice chat was finally coming to the popular MOBA. Turns out the party was short-lived. A mere two weeks after the announcement that the feature was coming to select regions in October&#8217;s 26.20 patch, Riot&#8217;s dev team posted on social media that the addition of voice chat has been delayed. And, sadly for the <em>LoL<\/em> players who have already waited 17 years for the option, there&#8217;s no revised timeline for when it will be arriving in-game. The studio didn&#8217;t give a reason for the delay, only stating that it is &#8220;to meet the quality bar&#8221; its community deserves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey everyone, wanted to get this out separate from today&#8217;s Patch Notes. We announced Team Voice as coming to NA\/OCE in Patch 26.20, but made the call to push it to meet the quality bar you deserve. No new target patch to share yet, but we&#8217;re making this a priority to get right.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 League of Legends Dev Team (@LoLDev) September 22, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s possible the reversal was the due to issues around moderation. <em>LoL<\/em> is a game famed for toxic in-game behavior, although Riot has been working to address that reputation in recent years. It&#8217;s possible that the company&#8217;s initial approach to making voice chat not a complete trash fire, like requiring a minimum Honor level to prove a history of good in-game behavior, weren&#8217;t working as intended. It could also be that the &#8220;voice skin&#8221; concept, allowing players to change how they sound to their teammates, was causing issues. It may be disappointing to have the long-requested feature promised and then snatched away, but at least Riot is still working on an implementation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2266017\/riot-is-pulling-voice-chat-from-league-of-legends-26-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So close and yet so far&#8230; &#13;&#13;&#13; &#13; Riot Games League of Legends players might have been rejoicing after Riot Games said that team voice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12310,9760,3092,3766,19715,3005],"class_list":["post-87193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-chat","tag-league","tag-legends","tag-pulling","tag-riot","tag-voice","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}