League of Legends honour system is meaningless
The current honor system in League of Legends is meaningless. I look at it and I don't feel anything, it doesn't... do anything, all my Friendly, Honourable Opponent and Helpful points are just there.
They're bland without context. I don't know if what I have is fair and good, or if it's crap. It's literally 3 meaningless numbers I see in my profile.
I say this in comparison to another game that I used to play in my early teen years, where it was the opposite picture. The game had an honour system that people used, cared about, talked about and even bitched about to one another.
_ Karma Score_
In this MOBA I played, where battles of 15vs15 and 20vs20 took place, you could up or downvote with a Karma Point and even write a comment to any player at the end of every match. Then in each players profile you could see their total Karma Score and Karma History - where you could check the date, match ID, the Karma Point, which was negative or positive, and the respective comment (people aren't forced to comment nor to vote).
This system incentivises people to behave, even if it's just to achieve a high Karma Score. Regardless, peoples ingame attitude was reflected in their Karma Score - the most sportslike players had high scores - others had lower scores. There were a very few negative ones and they were from people who did it on purpose.
But above all, it has meaning when you can see downvotes aswell as comments! -- And apparently, you can check them online T_T, here's mine:
http://savage2.com/en/karmahistory.php?aid=548827&page=6
Sometimes it can be a little deameaning but in the end it's healthy to look back and realise you were a dipsh*t! Or to look back and remember times you were a great player!
(The game is beyong dead btw)
It was something I checked daily! And even up to this day I find myself checking my karma history from times to times, and I haven't played the game in like 4 years or something, it's great to get nostalgic about older days!
Now, League is 99% better in every other possible aspect, but League isn't perfect and this is a part of this great game that could be improved on.
** Why add a history to honour, and the ability to comment?**
You might remember player names better. You'll check your own and others Karma Scores and care about it. Meaningfull feedback of your overall behaviour (players that started roughly at the same time had different Karma Scores portraying their sportsmanship) It's one single vote - if it worked in a 20v20 game, it'll surely work on a 5v5.
The main thing to be taken out of this is that, without context on why, when and how, honor points by themselvs are quite meaningless.