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Killer Fluff·2/3/2015, 3:58:29 PM·2 votes·1,715 views

I recently reached level thirty, after a lot of grinding and time spent. While I leveled, I came across quite a few people with poor attitudes and terrible mindsets. I pushed them aside and muted them, as they were still the minority, and better people did exist. Now that I'm level 30, I have noticed that the game is comprised 90% of arrogant individudals who would do nothing but insult anyone who doesn't see the game as they do. I've had enough of this. I did not join this game to be constantly harassed about little things like building a champion wrong. Today, I joined an ARAM and used one of the new champions. To be expected, I was NEW to the champion, and built him poorly. Two silver players on my OWN team decided to harass me, tell me to uninstall, and filled me in on the truth; I am apparently an idiot for not knowing the builds for all 90+ champions by heart.

While this is more than enough to make me want to leave the game, even after all of my money spent and hard work, I decided that I would check the forums and see what other people had to think. Maybe I was just imagining all of the bad things. Perhaps I was exaggerating, and I wanted to give League another chance. Upon further inspection of the forums, I realized that I was only one of the dozens of thousands of people that think similarly, yet every time they posted a similar discussion on the forums, they were shut own by the very people of which they spoke. I now see that this game is a lost cause, and, as I stated earlier, is mainly comprised of people who forget common ethics when they play this game.

From the hundreds of forums posts that I viewed, I also gathered that Riot likely can't do a single thing about this without systematically banning or muting thousands of players. This is impossible in a team game, as communication is vital. For these reasons, I simply don't think it possible for me to be able to stay. I doubt anyone who will read this or comment on it will be of the 10% that I enjoyed playing with, but if you are; thank you. You made the time that I spent playing enjoyable.

11 Comments

INTER5TELLAR2/3/2015, 4:16:13 PM3 votes

Why just this morning I encountered this. I wanted to try Lee, as he's F2P this week and prefaced hitting the "ready" button in team builder with "first time Lee, and I'm still pretty new to the new jg."

First part of the match, I got a kill (top), but died twice (once mid and once bot) due to team not engaging with me (I pinged "omw" multiple times and pinged "focus this target" etc). The response was our Morg mid saying every minute "gg Lee fed lanes," and "Lee stay in the jg."

Our nasus was able to free farm like none other because he faced a really new Swain and got like 300-400 stacks super early and started carrying us. Every time I splitpushed while they 4v5'd, he'd say "Lee come teamfight with us. expletives you're a ****ing mongrel."

Honestly, now. I said I was new, so why the hate?

That said, having tried Lee once, there is this overwhelming sense of having to make tricky plays I will say.

RookPusher2/3/2015, 4:12:14 PM3 votes

The problem is, I find, that most of the decent people don't say anything. They either mute everyone, or know that once you start talking you inevitably start raging. There are good people, and I'm in the B5 where the level of toxic is nuts.

Mute negative people. If someone types "gg" or "they have broken champs, we lose" that's an insta-mute from me. Those people will never have anything good to say. The other issue, I find, is that Riot promotes positively. It's better to have no emotions at all. It prevents the rage. Move through this game like a math problem. Things have happened, respond accordingly. There should be no feelings.

mvargus2/3/2015, 5:46:58 PM2 votes

Sadly, I see too many players of this game and most games who really have no idea how to lose. Frankly I think we are doing our children a major disservice they way we teach them that you cannot fail. Just recently a high school basketball coach was suspended because his team won a game by more than 100 points. Not because he was a bad coach, but because his team didn't stop scoring after getting the huge lead. The "adults" were more concerned with the "fragile" egos of the girls on the losing team than reality.

In LoL the lessons learned due to episodes like that result in players who really have no comprehension as to how a negative attitude affects their play and their teammates play. Worse, they believe that failures are not their fault and quickly start blaming others. I decribed an incident in a recent game where I was running Zyra support to someone playing Jinx ADC. We were facing a Vayne/Volibear lane. From the start the Jinx went out to kill the other ADC and support. Ignoring the minions and often positioning themselves so the Volibear had a direct run right at them with nothing in the way. I tried to keep plants in the way, but all that did was get the Volibear and Vayne to back up and Jinx would charge forward to where my seeds were useless. As any experienced player can imagine Jinx got killed multiple times as Volibear would charge forward and use his flip move to put Jinx under their turret. (Jinx was that far forward every time.) I got told I was the worst support ever by this player. There was no consideration that it was his own fault.

I've got a legion of stories like this where a player jumped on me often for their own mistakes. Like a Brand going in on a 1v4 situation and when I missed my first Q attempt on Irelia resulting in my coming in late he demanded that I uninstall. (I was not running quickcast)

I don't say this to complain. I have a very thick skin, and incidents like this just have me shaking my head and wondering how people can forget that this is a GAME. Yes, I want to win, but if I lose its not like I lose a finger or money or anything. Honestly, if you find you are typing out insults to other players because of what is happening, you are the problem as far as I'm concerned. At most you'll have me mention it here or with the friends I have made via LoL. Most of them I find rather amusing. The insults are juvenile at best most of the time and can only hurt me if I allow it.

I do try to find better people to play with. I'm playing the game to relax, not to provide uncompensated anger management therapy to people who think throwing tantrums will help them get ahead in life. I can say I hope everyone doesn't act like that at their job (if you have one.) as I can't think of many bosses who'd react pleasantly if you were half as hostile as the ragers are once they get going in LoL.

Silvanoss2/3/2015, 5:14:53 PM2 votes

The people who think the community is fine aren't on the forums complaining.

Miku Lv992/3/2015, 7:23:57 PM1 votes

I've found there are 2 solutions:

Git Gud
Queue up with nice people that aren't that way.

Otherwise, people will say that kind of stuff to you all the time.

Killer Fluff2/3/2015, 4:58:14 PM1 votes

Exactly. People need to remember that this is a video game. Fun comes first, with winning coming second. Thank you both for taking the time to read this and respond with your opinions. It's appreciated. And I'll take your advice, Rook, and mute anyone the second they say something negative. Thank you both.

6436437347757432/3/2015, 5:42:50 PM1 votes

My advice is to surrender at 20. You can't win with a team full of naysayers. For example "gg our top is feeding". By demoralizing their own teammates, they are making defeat more likely. It's best to just surrender since giving good constructive advice and help is a foreign concept to some players.

Original Quitter2/3/2015, 5:47:14 PM1 votes

I gotta say the trolling and toxicity you encounter in this game is related to your win rate and games played.

As someone who plays many accounts some In plat some in bronze and coaches a team, I can tell you from experience that the level of trolling decreased with your win rate (it does not go away, there are still AFKs and troll picks in plat and diamond too) and with the toatal games played.

New people to this game run into the brunt of it as you are thrown into groups with lower win rates (which if you are a genuine new player you will win fewer games) which include more trolls, more younger kids that don't understand what a team is, people who have no concept of how to play the map and smurfs rerolling of leveling other accounts.

All I can really say is that the frequency will decrease for you eventually.