How League of Legends Will End
This will be a long posts that is supposed to be thought-provoking in order to change the community for the better, If you've nothing to offer besides what I will be describing please leave this forum unmolested.
I've been playing this game for about a year and a half on several accounts. I've regrettably spent upwards of $2000 on this game in that course of time. When I spent the money I did it because I thought I was enjoying the game, thus why not support something that is giving me such happiness, excitement, and joy? What I am bringing to attention today has nothing to do with micro transactions, skin purchases, boosts etc., but the community. My highest achieved rank in this game has ironically been what I've been placed at on three different accounts, silver two, after placements I would going to long cycles of losing/winning streaks never surpassing silver two. This process led me to create new accounts, being forced to start over, learn new champions/roles and play without runes. I did get better, I was playing games where the CS for 10 minutes was double that of when I started playing. The mechanics of my opponents were challenging and diverse but at the same time more fun to play against, learn from, and use myself. However, as I continued to play on these new accounts, normal games, as well as playing ranked on my old accounts, over the course of this year and a half, League of legends shifted from being fun to others correlating losing lane/games with the worth of another person. If the person wasn't worth their salt, meaning they couldn't beat their lane opponent, they needed to uninstall the game, refund their skin/champion, cease to exist or were simply mentally challenged. If the person being attacked is to defend themselves they'll be met with retribution from others, and the original aggressor, very rarely receiving help from one of their own teammates in the regard. Nevertheless if the person were to reach out to the other team for MENTAL support they would be met with the ironic term of "salty", greeted with extended ridicule or simply egged further on hopes of further "tilting" this person and their team in hopes of winning, be it ranked or norms, all the while making the person who's play brought out the demons of others feel even worse about themselves.
The counter argument to this, the mute button/command/turning all chat off, isn't fitting because what this does is put the victim at fault. This person no longer reads the negativity the other players have to say about them but they are also removed from human contact, they are punished. Many will say report these players, but we all know those reports are rarely heard and/or acted upon whether it be by technological limitations, being unable to look through the player in question's past chat history from many games prior, or simply keeping a paying customer happy, unbanned/unmuted. It is extremely easy to say things through keyboard and by no means do I say people have a right to live life unoffended-because you should be throughout your life or you stand for nothing, but I say of this as we are playing A GAME. The reason most of us play league of legends is to unwind from the day or simply have time for fun, time we can be excited. When what has been described in the paragraph above happens its usually followed into the next game, and the next. I'm not one to discuss the matchmaking system, the balance of champions/items, or how common open mids are due to the atmosphere of the former I'm simply here to say if we continue to blame the victims, the "feeders", if we continue to ridicule those who we know nothing of their outside world behind a keyboard so that we get some sadistic pleasure from their pain for causing us to possibly lose A GAME or use it against the enemy team to win A GAME, like bacteria evolving to combat antibiotics, the League of legends community will lose its diversity, continue to breed in its environment of the toxicity and eat itself.
So here I am, do I have a perfect solution? No. Do we know how to work toward solving the problem? Yes. Can we work together with those in charge to purge the community for the greater good, or am I simply a harbinger of the end times?
Thank you for taking the time to read my post.