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Near End of Season Punishments Should be Less Harsh

Phlumph·10/16/2018, 9:32:18 PM·3 votes·768 views

Hey everyone, I have a problem that I think riot should address. I think near end of season punishments like chat bans, especially single-offense issues, should either not drop your honor level or should issue a warning first. Why?

Because I believe a single, first time, relatively minor offense very late in the season should not just mean all your effort is wasted because you automatically receive no ranked rewards because climbing back up a single honor level (1 to 2) is impossible in a one month time frame. Let me explain and give some context.

I’ve never received a punishment on this account. I get honors practically raining on me for playing AP Sona and frequently ending up carrying from the support role. I’m a person who’s quick to anger but I usually hold my tongue. Sometimes though, you have a particularly toxic asshole in your game who is not just bad and toxic, but has no idea what he’s talking about either. And sometimes that person may just push it so far that you lash out at him.

I’m a player who just recently got chat banned about a week ago because I called my Lucian a “fucking idiot” in response to the absolutely moronic stuff he was saying as he flamed everyone else on the team and fed in a ranked game, blaming everyone but himself. I even tried to explain to him why champions like Sona, who are so garbage early game (a rant for another post) can’t do anything in our situation or other teammates champs just couldn’t do anything in the last teamfight for one reason or another. He wouldn’t listen to any of it. So I called him like I saw him.

And I got chat banned. He did too I think. Did I deserve it? I guess. I don’t think it was necessarily toxic enough to merit a chat ban but whatever, I’ll accept it.

Here’s what I feel is unfair though. If you are fine all season, and have never been reprimanded since you made the account, I feel there should be a buffer of some sort. I got reset to honor 1 (better than 0, sure) but because it’s so close to the end of the season, I can’t recieve the ranked rewards because it’s impossible to get back to honor 2 by then. I was trying to help my bronze friends get to gold in flex and I’m helping another friend get to plat in solo duo (he was silver). I wanted to have the chroma and border with them, but because I had a single, minor slip up from a normally very honorable player, I can no longer get rewards. And I bet there are other players in my situation.

I believe that minor punishments like first time chat bans past a month like September should not drop your honor level as a sort of warning, because I believe it’s unfair to not get ranked rewards from all your effort because one person in one game pushed you hard enough to flame back one time. I would really love to hear Riot’s perspective on this as well, because I have seen many, many complaints about the new honor system.

Thank you for reading and I would encourage anyone to share their thoughts, whether it be for or against the position.

2 Comments

Tahminatrix 10/16/2018, 11:43:17 PM1 votes

"SoRrY nObOdY gEtS SpEcIaL tReAtMeNt , YoU wErE tOxIc AnD nOw YoU hAvE tO bE pUnIsHeD"

Actually you are getting special treatment, other players were given the chance to earn their honor back before the season ended and you arnt, they could be toxic at the beginning of the season and be friendly for the rest, but unfortunately being friendly for the entire season up until the end somehow means you don't deserve anything at all.

Really sorry someone downvoted your post, im pretty sure they are blind to this obvious hypocrisy.

Higher honor levels really NEED to provide a buffer to prevent this sort of thing, youd still be punished by being dropped to honor level 2 afterall (less keys, so nobody is ever not encouraged to stay friendly) don't see why the system is acceptable in its current state.

5050BS10/16/2018, 11:45:53 PM1 votes

There are no "single offense" chat bans. You get it after you hit a threshold on getting reported and it validated.

Well let me amend that. If you go all out lose your shit then that may do it but then dude you lost your shit and should deal with the fall out.

They have to look at it as how could any "forgiveness" be abused. They cant say after date X no offense will remove rewards.

Now personally I dont think anything should remove rewards. Getting chat banned or play banned is the punishment. Not giving out rewords to those that worked for it to me just begs for someone to go full toxic to the game as a whole. As in make it their life's purpose to ruin the game. Fake accounts, scripting, Int feeding. I can see a lot of under 25 people doing stuff like that if they felt jaded.