Holy mother of God your new player experience is awful. Why do you stop people from buying accounts?

Inari Fox Orrion·1/1/2020, 9:02:23 AM·2 votes·1,593 views

I can't get over how hypocritical this is. I was recently temp-banned for "toxicity" (it's not toxic to criticize teammates, but I guess you disagree eh?) and so I created an alternate account to test the new player experience out. (For context, my previous experience with being 'new' was in S4 when we still had to buy quints n' shiz w/ our IP. I distinctly remember it NOT being this bad.)

Oh dear Lord. It's not an exaggeration when I say that the trolls, griefers, intentional feeders, smurfs, scripters & AFKers all outnumber the new players at around a 1.35:1 ratio. Not only that, but even in spite of keeping my win% at a flat 50, I'd say that, every other game, I see the same people once more.

If I was a new player and my first experience with League of Legends was running into a scripting Katarina who stutters every time I press Q or E, or I ran into a few flamers & griefers who flat-out say "Idc, it isn't my main so I can troll all I like", I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be staying for long.

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Being completely dismissive of reality doesn't make it less real. Have fun in your fantasy-land where LoL is completely friendly, welcoming & fair to new players as if it isn't one of the most common complaints about the game outside of your favorite echo-chamber that consists entirely of addicted veterans.

Again, have fun boomer.

By the way, if you're wondering, Avast & TOR are my favorites, and with 300 ping it's quite easy to get a terrible K/DA consistently & have it appear legitimate as you ping your ping n' apologize to the smurfs who end up on your team. But hey, totally not a legit excuse for 4/10/7 gameplay, eh?

Again though... have fun. Obviously I'm faking it because that's the only way you hold any logical ground... but tbh I'm inclined to believe that very few people left who play are the logical or rational type.

Just for context on how I 'smurfed' if you can even call it that. The newbie experience is fucked, and no amount of fanboying fixes that. Among the other issues the game has, the newbie experience has to be talked about just as much thanks to the severity.

14 Comments

Lauchmelder1/1/2020, 1:02:55 PM5 votes

Yea no, your "new player experience" is you getting matched with other smurfs.

Actual new players rarely get matched into the shithole that is low level toxic smurfs.

Darkdemon6531/1/2020, 1:30:55 PM5 votes

You're using your experience as a not-new player as evidence that the experience for new players is shit?

Ashe mage AD1/1/2020, 9:11:13 AM2 votes

Can't help but agree with the essence of what you're saying, specifically about new player experience. +1 from me.

RyzeRework1/1/2020, 10:35:30 AM2 votes

Hmm account sharing is against tos... and if you buy an account it's considered sharing. Also when I made my smurf I didnt run into these problems? So I'm not sure how unlucky you got but I havent seen a single scripter, griefers are everywhere its apart of the community and game nothing can stop an asshole from making a new account and instantly trolling, that's like asking for people to get banned before they even play. People also need to be reported more than once to get banned, you dont get banned off one report unless you really say some super racist threatening toxic stuff.

Crispy0Snake1/1/2020, 12:14:13 PM1 votes

You'd be naive to think Riot has this omnipotent tech that can tell if you're really the account owner or not

It's just not a good idea to buy an account because you give payment info to a sketchy site and the person who made the account could use their email to reset the password and get the account back at any time

I think it's super fun levelling an account as you do meet new players and they make up for the downsides imo. I'd always get an XP Boost now though