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Thoughts on Ranked Restriction

Damicor7·5/18/2015, 3:00:32 AM·1 votes·779 views

Ill start with saying I am not always the most positive player, I've been chat restricted many times due to my anger at other players or the pace of the game, I get it and I deserve it more or less. I understand the new Ranked game restriction thing is a "next level" punishment thing, ok cool. I got this for the first time on my main account and was like, ok guess ill need to grind out some regular games and just not chat. Alright sounds good.

So the restriction is not just X many games, but you have to win x many games. I figured ok this may take a while. That was an understatement. of the 55 games I have played I have won 7. Seems unreal but here let me explain...

So I have decided to only ping and not chat at all, due to fear of saying a single word getting me reported. Pinging is usually plenty to make things work. 11 Champ selects I pick a role and people assume I pick another role, so we lose due to this conflict. 16 games I have had 1-2 players afk. Someone gives FB, people argue/fight about whatever and its not ranked so no one cares, they just afk if the game isn't going their way. 3 games I have had people just take my jungle when im jungling assuming I do not need it, as a result I fall way behind, become really useless. 9 games I have had people who don't speak English and wont coordinate or work with the rest of the team, all of these have been duo's as far as I can see, very similar names, ie "Protoman, Protogirl" kinda thing.

Being generous I have accepted maybe 16 of my games have been "real" games where people are trying and don't quit. Of those I have won 7 now. I need to win 35 games to end my restriction so at the current rate I need to play ~275 games to end a 35 game punishment. The prisoners island thing is pretty cool in theory, but in reality it makes people in this situation only want to make more accounts and just troll the shit out of people. Some people deserve the punishment I get it. So the punishment is to lob all these players into a different bracket with "like" players so the situation is exacerbated 100 fold and so far as I have seen, the level of toxic and hateful players is easily 2-3x normal or ranked games. If this was your goal riot, you did a fine job making an even worse sub community within this one, but if this is seriously the best idea from months if not years of thought into how to improve the community, I cant help but laugh and hope in the future a competent player behavior team gets some control over the system. Well off to grind out another 200+ games. Thanks rito.

6 Comments

Deep Terror Nami5/18/2015, 3:09:37 AM2 votes

Sounds like your primary problem is bad games, not the restriction. You don't need to refrain from speaking, just be positive with what you say instead. "Stop feeding" can rub some people the wrong way, while "play passive near your tower" results in the same intended effect without sounding aggressive or condescending. The trick is to determine how to make your message positive, because people can't hear your tone or see your expressions to clarify the message.

Oh, and, there is no Prisoner Island. The number of unrestricted players in Normals with you greatly exceeds the ones working off a restriction.

Genuwhine5/18/2015, 3:36:39 AM2 votes

yeah ranked restriction was a pretty bad idea i thought it was bad when i thought you only had to play them let alone win them. Thats probably enough for some players to just quit the game. But then again i dont think that straight up "toxic" players or players that just want to win the game and gets mad when others dont shouldnt be punished cuz there is a mute button, just people who intentionally lose or ruin games should be perm banned. would make the game and community better faster

Damicor75/18/2015, 4:03:18 AM1 votes

I just would love to know the logic behind this. Literally all this does is anger people even more. I mean sure if they want people to stop spending money on their game they are heading that way with this. People will "and i know some" make new accounts and just troll the shit out of others because of this in spite. And literally it does not matter how I phrase things. Anything I say in chat will get me reported I have seen. I have been 4 reported for saying gl/hf at the start of a game because it was construed as "sarcastic and toxic." Its literally just silly at this point so I just refuse to use chat, and also get reported every other game for "refusing to communicate" even though I use pings. I just don't get this community or rito anymore.

If there was some reason or logic behind the system, even if i disagreed with it ok. But this is by far one of the worst decisions I have ever seen that is designed to "improve" the community, if anything it breeds more rage, toxicity, and hate because of the complete lack of forethought in what would be the consequences of this.

T RexHasTinyArms5/18/2015, 4:57:58 AM1 votes

I'd suggest you at least communicate in champ select. You should be really minimalist about it, but saying "hey, I'm taking mid w/ first pick" or "it looks like no one has locked top yet, I'm gonna grab top w/ 4th pick" should clarify that you're going a particular spot and have at least made 11 of those games real which adds like another 4-6 wins depending on your luck. It still sucks to grind that much, but it will help a lot (since that's a 50-100% increase in wins across the same number of games played basically)

Damicor75/18/2015, 5:09:55 AM1 votes

I agree communication is key but here is the problem, Many players who are forced to play Normal Draft to work off a punishment either don't give a shit because of the punishment or whatever reason, or just continue to troll. So the % of players in this game mode compared to others is higher. Chat is literally just rage bait. I have seen people call a role or say "pref mid" just to get a "f you ima go mid now gg lol" or people ask for champs to be not banned so what happens?

Riot wants to make you redeem and fix your behavior by subjecting you to a hyper concentration of people who are here simply to piss you off and ruin games. The icing on the cake is you are supposed to just suck it up and try to win a game where people are trying to anger you and make you lose? They understand the punishment system as well and are trying to keep you there because some people just want to see the world burn.

How in any reality does this make any sense?