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When even the casters are breaking Riot's TOS...

theTyger·3/15/2018, 4:13:32 AM·7 votes·2,394 views

Quote from Zirene: When I play on my smurf for like a month and I'm just crushing kids in silver and then I go play on my main account I make such stupid decisions because I'm still in like that silver mentality where I'm like I can get away with anything. We're just way better. I'm just like way better than these guys.

I am not a good player. I have never, even briefly, been higher than Silver 2 and I've never finished a season higher than Silver 3. I'll never be a pro player and I'll be lucky to ever hit something as lowly as Gold. And I'm ok with that. I still love to get into a ranked game, try hard, and try to see if I can climb a little bit higher than previous seasons. It's fun to compete with people who are roughly around my skill level.

You know what isn't fun, getting stuck in a ranked game with someone who clearly doesn't belong in my elo. There is nothing as frustrating, aggravating, and humiliating as having some random smurf on the enemy team run around and ROFL stomp everyone on my team, myself included, as if we were little better than bots. So, everytime I see someone with several solo kills and 120 cs at 15 minutes, you better believe I take screenshots, check out their op.gg, screenshot that as well, and then send a report into Riot via a support ticket (assuming their op.gg account shows irregular activity as opposed to them just having the game of their life).

This ends up being a pretty big time sink and there are times when it literally happens every 2nd or 3rd game (particularly right around end of season and during pre-season). At times, I'll quit League for months at a time over this sort of thing. Which, since I seriously doubt I'm the only one to ever rage quit over this issue, has got to cost Riot quite a bit of green. To say nothing about it obviously ruining the competitive integrity of the game.

So imagine my surprise when one of Riot's longest standing casters admits on air to this behavior. Let me be perfectly clear. Diamond players DO NOT BELONG IN BRONZE AND SILVER GAMES. EVER. And the way the game and TOS are set up, there is no legitimate way for them to end up there. Let alone spend a month there on enough different occasions that they've been able to accurately track the effect that playing in lower elo's has had on their play when they go back to their main account.

Zirene, if you read this, I am a silver player and I am not a kid. I was serving in the military before, during, and after 9/11. I was overseas protecting American interests abroad literally before you hit middle school. I find your comments and behavior reprehensible and it is my sincere opinion that you owe the greater community an apology. I have reported you via Riot's internal ticketing system and it is my hope Riot will use this as an opportunity to send a message to the community and take a stand against behavior that is clearly not in the best interest of the game and it's competitive integrity.

31 Comments

HalcyonDweller3/15/2018, 7:37:22 PM4 votes

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There is nothing as frustrating, aggravating, and humiliating as having some random smurf on the enemy team run around and ROFL stomp everyone on my team, myself included, as if we were little better than bots.

With you 100% on this. It ruins the game for everyone who plays with/against the smurf, and it ruins the competitive integrity of the game.

MrHaZeYo3/15/2018, 4:50:41 AM3 votes

Except Riot doesn't care if you smurf. They care if you boost.

Pro players and major streamers all have multipal accounts, and to get them all to D+ they would of needed to start from the ground up at some point.

Slythion3/15/2018, 4:56:40 AM1 votes

Is smurfing really technically against the TOS or is it just boosting?

III BAKURYU III 3/15/2018, 9:43:27 AM1 votes

What's stopping let's say Challenger, Diamond, plat etc type of players from creating a new account and having to play from the bottom up? Long story short, we all will get those "smurfs" in our games from time to time.

With your and I quote - "I am not a good player. I have never, even briefly, been higher than Silver 2 and I've never finished a season higher than Silver 3. I'll never be a pro player and I'll be lucky to ever hit something as lowly as Gold." Means that even with or without these setbacks your limits have been reached and you will most likely stay in Silver for the rest of our gaming career. Counter-argument would be "I want to have fun" really has 1 simple answer - normals.

" I was serving in the military before, during, and after 9/11. I was overseas protecting American interests abroad literally before you hit middle school"
First I want to say Thank you, good sir, for serving the military(I'm possibly joining myself here soon) but that really has no weight in the world of video games. Simpler terms, no one really cares. Hell, look at the economy and what we do and for our own veterans of this world/country.......nothing.

InTheKappaWeTrus8/13/2018, 5:43:05 AM1 votes

Smurfing is not against the ToS and even if it is and I'm mistaken Riot doesn't punish it because it doesn't matter to them. Also, you can literally boost your friends with duo q and it's not bannable because "you're just duoing" unless they get evidence that you paid for it which then it is bannable. And to add in addition I don't see why you got so offended by Zirene saying "crushing kids in silver" like chill dude it's just an exaggeration your age and hell your profession doesn't matter don't know why you needed to say that... (let me know what happened with that ticket if u do end up reading this)