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the problem with the game is not the game itself, its the community

UwU MonkaS·3/28/2019, 12:46:00 AM·8 votes·4,015 views

Where can I start, there are some problems in the game, but I feel like nothing is unbearable. The main problem with the game is the community and everyone's mentality. I can't speak for high elo, but I can speak for how it is on a gold/plat level. My first problem is that people play for themselves and not for the team. Example, when I first pick a carry jgler and and a my top laner who hovers nobody and picks yasuo. He proceeds to complain about me not going a tank but he can't pick a tank cause he thinks he's better than everyone and has to carry. My second problem is people giving up after first blood. This season I see more people giving up after first blood or when something goes wrong, its so annoying just watching someone farm up and do nothing only to type /ff at 15 and complain when people don't want to surrender. I am not saying that this happens every game, but it feels like this is happening more often. I'm not saying that I play perfect either and is the best gold player in existence, but I feel like 40% of games are just people who are crying they aren't carrying, just giving up and refuse to do anything until they get their way. People in low elo just have big but fragile egos I guess. Anyway thanks for reading my rant.

5 Comments

Ahri Baka3/28/2019, 1:21:57 AM3 votes

Yes , and people who quit actually quit because of the community not the balance , it takes 10 years for boards to actually understand

Literal IRL Tree3/28/2019, 1:14:01 AM2 votes

That is most competitive games man.

Kai Guy3/28/2019, 1:52:21 AM2 votes

Your not wrong but odds are folks wont enjoy hearing it.

Flamingo Tango3/28/2019, 5:31:30 AM1 votes

Agreed. The game is super fun, I still play for the game, but agreed.

Even if it is most competitive games sadly, it is still up to the devs to try and make the behavior a higher standard and consequences for it, which they are trying. Sportsmanship and not being sore losers is a thing even if it is game esports. People seem to be less awful these days, I hope Riot manages to improve player behavior.

HeeroTX3/28/2019, 3:57:16 PM1 votes

You have a TEAM game where you determine the best players by who wins more. Anytime anyone has historically complained about getting bad teams they're told "if you're good you will carry the bad people". The top players and streamers regularly play against and stomp low level players either for ego boost or money to raise up low level players or simply for content to stream.

All of these force people into the mindset of "if I want to climb, I've got to be better than everyone else", and all the high elo players (presumably) are always just itching to jump on anyone with suggestions about how to make rank more individually determined with "ABUSE CASES" despite how the current system is provably rife with malicious intent.

Ranked should LP should be 50% W/L, and 50% individual skill. That way if you play well and win, you move up, if you play badly and lose you fall down and in the other variations (win while playing badly or lose while playing well) you move very little (if at all). In this way no one should ever feel "trapped" in a bad game because you always have a way to at least feel good about how things turn out.

The biggest problem is that at least a year or two ago (if not longer) Riot clearly gave up on making games BETTER and instead focused on trying to help you "move on" faster. I'm not saying its EASY to make a non-toxic or pleasant community, its really freaking hard, but they clearly gave up at some point and just said "yeah, sometimes this will suck so we'll help you get to the next one faster". The result has been people leave due to bad games, so you go faster to the next game, but there's less people looking for GOOD games (rather than the people CAUSING bad games) and so the next one sucks too and more people leave, etc etc.