> League of Legends is a 5v5 team game, not a private 1v1 affair

Does this imply that chat in a 1v1 game is private? That doesn't really follow, since the only difference is the # of immediate spectators

> Anything said in in a LoL game is as sufficiently public as a Twitter account.

I suppose I see where you're coming from, but this feels like a stretch. For starters, the vast (utterly overwhelming) majority of LoL players do not have a real name associated with their gaming handle. They're theoretically similar, but in practice are far from equivalent.

Chat disappears after the game, unless someone screenshots (so it's 10x less private than a Snapchat DM or a 1v1 game). But this is orders of magnitude less public than Twitter.

> But this is orders of magnitude less public than Twitter

Couldn't agree more, honestly. However, I had to acknowledge that the parent had a point in that they were theoretically comparable.

Lots of people stream games, and lots of people watch those streams. Anything you say in public chat (or in team chat when your teammate is streaming) can be viewed by anybody who watches the stream or watches a recording of the stream. The potential audience is far greater than just "the ten players in the game at the moment".

This happens even in 1v1 games...

See http://www.pcgamesn.com/starcraft/starcraft-2-progamer-steph...