Riot Games will record and evaluate Valorant player voice chats to combat inappropriate behavior

June 27. (Portaltic/EP) –

Video game developer and publisher RiotGames has announced that it will start recording the communications of the players of Valorant to evaluate them in case you are notified of negative behavior by one of them.

The company has been crusading against toxic behavior in its voice chats since April 2021. At that time, Riot updated their privacy policy to be able to record and “potentially evaluate” these types of communications, starting with Valorant.

In February 2022, Riot Games recalled this initiative again in another statement in which it advanced the launch of the beta of its voice evaluation system in North America and only for English speakers by the end of this year.

Now, the developer and publisher has announced it’s a statement that this system will arrive on July 13 and will operate in the background. For the time being, it will be exclusive to North America and communications in English, and will launch when you receive an inappropriate sharing notification.

Riot explains that it plans to train its language models enough to launch the beta of this evaluation system at the end of the year, as planned. Until then, the evaluation will not be used against users reported for alleged abusive behavior.

The company explains that, thanks to this proposal, it will be able to collect evidence to verify any violation of its behavior policies before taking any action. In addition, Riot points out that this way you can better explain to your players why they have been penalized if they go to that extreme.