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LoL Chat Restriction Study Completed

Luclinwhat··1 votes·834 views

Hey guys,

Just thought this was interesting. A group of psychology students from San Jose State wanted to see the correlation between gaming and anger or something like that. (Sorry, don't remember it all, I just read it a few days ago and couldn't get it out of my head so wondering if anyone else here had seen it)

Anyway, they apparently took a massive random group study, something like 5K people showed up for it, all LoL players. (Guess LoL really is that popular lol)

Before they started they had to weed out the people who were just prone to anger, they decided Riot had already done that for them so they decided to not allow anyone who had the chat restriction to participate.

Their group apparently dropped from around 5k to around 750-800.

So if you look at that 5k people all randomly applying as a group study....which it pretty much is. That's like 85% of LoL players are chat restricted.........

Is that how it's supposed to be?

I honestly don't play much anymore so I haven't experienced this myself. But some of my friends still play a ton, and they all have this chat ban, and say its not even worth playing because it makes it near impossible to win due to not being able to form a strategy or communicate properly. I actually know one or two people who have quit and returned to other games because of it constantly reoccurring for every little thing.

I was thinking of giving a few games a try, but now I look at the forums and see tons more people saying its ridiculous, people reporting you because you 1st blood them, and receiving a 20 game restriction that just loops endlessly. Not sure if its worth going back if that's the state of the game lol :P

Is it really like this? I see some people saying Riot claims only 2% of their player base is under chat restriction...that number sounds pretty made up tho when you have legitimate colleges and student run studies finding number over 40x that lol. There's room for error in every equation...but not that big ;p

14 Comments

Dr Jarjarbinks3 votes

To be taken seriously you need to supply enough info so others can find this study. Otherwise you are probably someone who is upset at riot for being punished for bad behavior.

Also imo there are a lot of things in your post that scream "I totally made this up." I have been wrong before though so

Sailor Mint1 votes

That's how i feel about it.

Luclinwhat1 votes

I'll see if I can find it again.

Honestly, I was just looking for some info about the game.

I hear from everyone irl who still plays not to do it because of this system.

I look at the forums and see them amass with people complaining about it.

And now this study has been done showing its out of hand......

Like I said, I dont really play anymore. Ive been stuck on Destiny and Tera for a few months now. But was thinking about coming back....not if it's like that though >.>

Sailor Mint1 votes

You are either gullible and/or have terrible sources, or a troll.

Luclinwhat1 votes

Lol, maybe....

San Jose State is a pretty reputable school though.

And honestly, with the stand offish response the community has given to a simple conversation piece, I have to say it seem that all the bad things I have heard about the community and state of the game seem true.

So far the responses to a simple conversation and a question about the state of the game have been: "You made it up, You're gullible/a troll". A pretty hostile community for such a casual game lol.

Dr Jarjarbinks1 votes

I think this shows that you are a troll. This was not a conversation about opinions. You tried to take it to a place where there was "now scientific evidence to show that I was unfairly punished(they deserved to be told to suicide, they didnt carry me)"

I know you havent hit puberty yet but eventually(fingers crossed) you will make it to a junior college and if you do take a basic philosophy course. You will find in writing that over a thousand years ago people were still less ignorant than you, described exactly your method of manipulation and how to see it for what it is.

Luclinwhat1 votes

I know you're upset for one reason or another about your horrid day at your minimum wage job. But that does not mean you have to come on here and vent to me. Usually the monkey's at your level of work have an overweight wife and children a plenty by now to take your frustrations out on.....why come here?

Im not sure where the whole puberty thing came in.....maybe projecting your own feelings of worthlessness and immaturity onto others?

Simply put, I grossed last year more than you, your mother and father, and all your sibling (If you have any), will make in their entire lifetimes. I would be glad to give you the link to my FB so you can see my Aventador I just bought 3 weeks ago while I was in LA, or my 3.8 Million dollar OC house I bought last year.

Just some advice, success comes from working together WITH others...not trying to put others down below your place in the dirt.

Hope it helps you get your life back on track, Kings dont usually converse with their peasants so.....take it to heart.

Dr Jarjarbinks1 votes

Did your parents give you that money? Cus idk how someone who is wrong all the time can succeed unless they are incredibly lucky or taken care of by someone who isnt as...wrong.

Sailor Mint2 votes

It's called Voluntary Response Bias. They were not randomly sampled.

You can twisted it the way you want.

84% of ragers get punished. 16% of sampled ragers didn't get punished.

Luclinwhat1 votes

But these participants were not told what the study was for.

It was a typical study. Do you Play LoL? Give us an hour of your time and we will give you $15 dollars. (Something along those lines)

So to think only anger prone players would show up because they feel strongly about the correlation between anger and games does make sense....but not when they don't know what the study is about.

In most studies the participants are kept blind to the purpose of the study until afterwards at the debrief.

ReportThisShaco1 votes

Can't make any conclusions without a real source or details of the study

Drunk Rummate1 votes

It honestly doesn't surprise me. Friends that I have are occasionally toxic enough to where if I wasn't their friend, I would report them. It happens so frequently to completely normal people that hearing ~85% of people have experienced at least 1 restriction doesn't surprise me at all.

I don't think that means they need to go easier on chat restrictions at all. I mean, how many people have gotten a speeding ticket before? There's a reason we have rules in society.

Luclinwhat1 votes

Thats a good way to look at it I suppose.

It just seems that alot of people are claiming to have been maliciously reported, and punished for it.

The above I CAN completely agree with, having been punished a couple of years ago. I asked for the tribunal case from Riot Support, which they gave me. Upon going over it I had done nothing wrong. I asked the Riot Support to look at it and see that I had done nothing wrong. He refused and basically said tough luck......

But I like your example of the speeding ticket..makes perfect sense.

Matthias91191 votes

So if you look at that 5k people all randomly applying as a group study....which it pretty much is. That's like 85% of LoL players are chat restricted.........

There could be significant self-selection bias at work here. The players were not randomly selected from the entire League playerbase, they decided to walk in off the street to make $15.

Even if this was a random sampling of all League players at SJSU, those players may not be representative of the NA playerbase as a whole.

They also have no way of validating whether the players who said they were (or were not) chat restricted or otherwise punished actually were.

Is it really like this? I see some people saying Riot claims only 2% of their player base is under chat restriction...that number sounds pretty made up tho when you have legitimate colleges and student run studies finding number over 40x that lol. There's room for error in every equation...but not that big ;p

Back when Tribunal was up they had put out numbers saying that only about 5% of the playerbase had ever been punished by Tribunal.

It's probably easier to get a chat restriction now than it was to get a Tribunal case before, but I think they said at one point that only something like 2% of the NA playerbase is actually chat restricted at any given time. I don't know what the total % of active players that has ever been chat restricted even once looks like, but I am guessing it is a lot lower than 85%.

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