Riot games is the developer behind the free first-person shooter (fps) valorant. Riot games will monitor players’ voice communications on July 13th (via PCGamer).

Riot says it will analyze recordings when a player reports someone for abusive or offensive comments. The new terms give riot permission to’record and potentially evaluate voice data when using riot-owned voice comms channels’.

Riot will only evaluate the conversations of English-speaking valorant players in North America. The only way to opt out of this system is to disable voice chat completely or use another communication tool, like discord.

Riot announced that it has systems in place to make sure we can correct any false positives (or negatives). Riot notes that it will have to be confident it’s effective.

Riot says that it wo n’t’actively monitor your live game comms’. It will only’potentially listen to and review voice logs’ if you’re reported for disruptive behavior.