Today I went afk from a ranked game for the first time ever.

Project omen··2 votes·661 views

After 2.5 years of playing League. My jungler, my own teammate harassed me in the chat because I wasn't doing very good in lane. Note that he ganked top twice and died. He spammed the chat, I muted him after a while, then started spamming pings. Tilted me so much I would rather go afk and face the consequences rather than keep playing with him. And so I did. This is our community. Instead of helping the teammate get back into the game, we prefer to harass him because we think this will feed our ego and make us feel good about ourselves, or that this kind of "negative reinforcement" will magically make him start winning. Sometimes, I'm not having the best day/game, which makes my tolerance for this behavior minimum. I know what I did is wrong and that I ruined the game for the rest of the players, and I welcome the punishment, but I did it because if I stayed I believe it would ruin my day. And a game should not do that.

14 Comments

Neeko N Dime2 votes

Alright well you're d5 in Europe which means you know how to play the game. As far as team flaming and ping spam, that's usually when I mute league and play music while I finish the game. I think it's funny that people are toxic about performance pretending like they've never had a bad game in their life

Project omen2 votes

I think the irony is clear, but they don't think about that. The only thing they think of is that a random person just ruined their game, as if they are supposed to win every game ever.

Kaioko2 votes

To each their own but honestly it kinda sucks that you penalized 3 other people for the actions of 1.

Project omen1 votes

I understand that. Really, I do. But I prefer not having my day ruined because of some random prick I met online.

BIackfox1 votes

Wait... That's it? In 2.5 years that is the first time that happened to you? Lol

Project omen1 votes

Yep. First rage quit from ranked since I first started playing. Usually I have high tolerance for this kind of behavior, or I just don't care, but I'm having a bad day today and I made the mistake of playing ranked solo. To "relax" and "take my mind off things".

BIackfox1 votes

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Yep. First rage quit from ranked since I first started playing. Usually I have high tolerance for this kind of behavior, or I just don't care, but I'm having a bad day today and I made the mistake of playing ranked solo. To "relax" and "take my mind off things".

I see people rage every single game. Seems odd it took you that long to do.

Project omen1 votes

Most of the time I can control myself and remain calm. I rage too sometimes. I might hit the table or scream a little bit, do a facepalm, but no rq or flaming in the chat. The worst punishment I've ever had was 5 minute priority queue for 5 games.

Rákãñ1 votes

Only thing annoys me is that the report system is terrible. I got a 15 game chat restricted after a Vi support game with a friend that was going Caitlin support in blinds. My team tilted at me so hard for going Vi support with smite and one of the guys was being a complete ass to an extreme. The worst thing I said to him was barely the worst thing that was said in the chat either. Next day I got chat restricted with that chat from that same game for the reason behind it somehow.

All I wanted was some Vi and Caitlyn bot lane action. =/ And hope for a Jinx to be in the game with us in that bot lane.... It was going good till their mid-laner royally harassed us with ganks with the jungler.

~ Maybe you made the correct decision on going AFK. at least it doesn't seem you get chat muted from leaving a toxic team, but a 5min leaver buster it seems. As I stayed, yet, I get is chat restricted and temp banned from loot with hextech chests and keys drops while staying with the toxic players till the game ended.

Tychusfindlay9191 votes

Spineless venting. Move on euro

Project omen1 votes

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Spineless venting.

Sue me. Also, I have come to realize that this is the reason people post on gameplay boards.

Move on euro

Bite me.

Tychusfindlay9191 votes

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Sue me. Also, I have come to realize that this is the reason people post on gameplay boards.

Bite me.

"bite me"

There is no substance there to bite, typical of... soft people.

Project omen1 votes

Well, I'm not hurting anyone by being "soft", so I don't think I'll change that, at least in the near future.

Oglaf1 votes

I know those EUNE feels.

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