From Honor to Dishonor social evolution of League of Legends (Ranked)
I could write a long rant but I'll try to keep it short.
I've played league for 5 years now and was a filthy casual early on then reached my peak of D5 last and this year.
The game has provided me countless hours of fun and I'm thankful for that. I've repaid it plenty with RP purchases which were very well enjoyable and worth it. Quality product.
However the game peaked in my personal opinion when the honor system came out. Leading up to this the Tribunal had been a fun way to participate in actively keeping the game clean... They removed that. But they introduced the honor system! We could tell Riot which guys were really cool and fun to play with. But Riot thought too many people were getting banners, it's only for the REALLY good people. No one that ever receives any punishment (even just for 1 bad game = chat restrict) deserves an honor banner! So now... there's 0 honor banners in my games. Literally none in months of ranked.
Instead of honoring those who were OK or fun to play with. The immediate reward system for reporting "toxic" people has taken it's place. Someone has a real bad game and is blaming the team and being a dick all around.. Instead of the team muting him they argue and it gets worse. That 1 guy is the focal point, all 4 teammates report him, maybe he raged out or fed after getting more and more pissed off. Next game we get that satisfying "toxic player has been punished because of your reports!!" Woah got that guy, yeah stuck it to him!
This creates a me against my teammates mentality. It's also easily abused by dynamic queues... I played with 4 people. Someone had a report-worthy game but it wasn't crazy bad. All 4 of us of course on the same page dropped a report. Kid got banned (probably 2 weeks). Really wasn't ban worthy... I thought the hive-mind dynamic queue reports were mitigated but in all of my experience they aren't...
Now also they have "Mastery" system where you are still actually trash at your champion but you've played a 100 games! In game you get a cool icon! It's constantly used to tilt people... Nice mechanic...
Let's move back. Keep hextech crafting, keep all the game changes. Revert the social changes. Bring back more honor!! Remove dynamic queue!! Please improve role selection!! Why can't I pick 1 main role and 2 offroles? Why is it 2 roles or fill? I really enjoy top/adc/jung and want to queue all 3. My matches were be found quicker and I'd have a lot more fun! Really just let us pick "up to 5 roles". Mid only guy can wait 10mins to get mid game. Fill anything but jungle guy gets to do that cause he really can't jungle and I don't want him to have to when he picks fill =)
We need social changes. Queue changes, positive environment changes/buffs, less bans, more peer review!!! Forget "instant feedback" it's not better. Peer reviewed cases is much better. Give something for it to entice players. You never enticed people you just said not enough people do it and scrapped it...
Sorry this became the rant I didn't want it to be. I'm out. Thanks for all the fun Riot but I'm donezo. Greener pastures. Cya. -JC