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Today I quit League

Jiasu··11 votes·1,091 views

There is an illness in this community that has ruined countless solo queue games through the years. Today was the final straw though. After coming off a great hot streak in some solo queue, and some fantastic games with my friends, I was put into a lobby with four of the most toxic players I've ever encountered. I managed to stop many afk attempts and managed to stop every surrender vote, gave consolidation, and tried to turn the mood of this lobby. I balanced the team on the edge, and managed to take the lead by helping the angry lanes. Alas. after every fight they would start bickering again, threatening to afk, abusing one another, swearing and being unable to work as a team. It seems there is a problem with matchmaking at the moment. There should be a lobby only for nice players. A physical and visual lobby that if players abuse in, they are removed from it. It would only really work in solo/duo norms/ranks to prevent teams abusing this. It would be the antithesis of the lowprio queues. Players shouldn't start in this lobby either, they should earn it through the commend system. Players should be encouraged at the end of the game to commend someone on their team as well, a prompt or group vote. Something to really mark out the great team players who deserve better than to play with toxic players.

Tldr: Until I am matched with other positive players, it seems my days on League are over.

15 Comments

SwapShadows8 votes

find the mute button and press it and play the game.

You're literally encouraging people to be toxic towards you by not pressing that button, having a game were the other 4 are constantly arguing is not that common so just move on and accept you can't win every game.

Brascus4 votes

{quoted}

find the mute button and press it and play the game.

You're literally encouraging people to be toxic towards you by not pressing that button, having a game were the other 4 are constantly arguing is not that common so just move on and accept you can't win every game.

Yeah but that doesn't stop them from afk'ing, ping spam, being uncooperative and post match trash talk. You are 23% more likely to lose a game when you have a toxic player on your team and if that hate snowballs you're Garen teed to lose :T

It also doesn't stop the damage that is done and the fact that the match will generally not be fun.

Jiasu1 votes

Exactly, well said

Jiasu2 votes

Muting them would not win the game. By persuading them to calm down and to stop being toxic is the way to allow your team to win. The problem is that it is very taxing on the player trying to hold the team. And I must disagree with your final comment. I believe you can win every game, and I carried that mentality into all of mine. You'd be surprised how high you can push your W/L by being a positive player. My post is also not about losing, it's about enjoyment. Enjoyment for me is not playing a single player game with half my team muted, for me its being with other positive players, which shouldn't be down to luck. Every game should be a great game.

ZephyrDrake3 votes

so... one game with negative people is enough to make you "quit" League... sorry but what? and how are you even going to get matched with positive players if "your days with League are over"? overreacting much? i have had games with horrible people and all i do is mute them, report them and move on with the next game in which i might find other toxic players or some overly great players. I had an ARAM match not that long ago in which it was a 3v5 and my team decided that since the 3 players were doing their best and not %%%%%ing (that we knew of) to give them the win and we surrendered. Sure i was "only ARAM" so it doesn't matter but there are people who take every single mode seriously and to find 4 completely random people who would give up an easy win since all that was left was their nexus to actually reward the team with the handicap with a win.

There are many more positive players than toxic/negative/horrible/whatever ones. If you let one game affect you so much that you need to "quit league" then i seriously have no words for you. Get a thicker skin and stop letting some random people say affect you to that degree. Everyone has bad games, everyone faces horrible players just like everyone will have great games with great people it's up to you to make the best out of both situations and report/mute/honor accordingly

Jiasu1 votes

Read post above, same response. It's not one game, its the hundreds that are riddled with negative players. It's not what they say that effects me, I normally get commended for teamwork at the end of the game, even in that game. It's what they say that effects other players, which in turn makes them more toxic.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Read post above, same response. It's not one game, its the hundreds that are riddled with negative players. It's not what they say that effects me, I normally get commended for teamwork at the end of the game, even in that game. It's what they say that effects other players, which in turn makes them more toxic.

you don't have to do anything, if someone is being terrible to others and won't listen to reason then just mute them and advice the rest of your team to do the same. One or two guys being asses cannot ruin the game to that degree unless you allow them to ruin it. I have had players who bitch and moan over the smallest things, players who literally tell me to kill myself, players who threaten to afk over nothing, trolls who will go out of their way to ruin the game among many other negative things and what i do half the time? i just laugh, mute them and report them at the end of the game. There is not much else i can do, it's not worth half the time trying to calm them down or to reason with them so i don't bother. Sometimes i even troll them back and watch them explode in anger when they see that whatever they were trying to do has little to no impact on me.

Does that mean i don't ever get consumed in rage? no, everyone has that one time in which they just can't hold it back and just explode and start telling everyone off. It's human nature. Every time i see someone harass someone else i just tell the one who is being harass "just mute or ignore him you are doing fine" and sometimes even try to defend him one way or another. It's up to them to follow that advice.

Having some sort of "heaven queue" or whatever you want to call it isn't going to solve the core problem of having bad, toxic players. It's just going to make it better for a select few while the others are pretty much cursed to deal with the terrible players which in turn will just create more toxic players or at the bare minimum prevent terrible players from getting better. The main thing one can do when faced against such terrible players is to either try to reason with them or just ignore them and report them. Everyone has that one game in which they rage and just feel the need to let everything out. Games in which they face such terrible players that can potentially ruin the game for them or games in which everyone is great with each other and it's such a pleasant experience and everything in between. It's really up to you to make the best out of every single one of those scenarios and do your part in making the game be better and by better i don't mean "let's make everything be sunshine and rainbows" no, I mean make it so that the cases of extreme toxicity becomes less and less common

Jiasu1 votes

Once again, muting does not solve the problem. And no, raging isn't human nature. There are plenty of players that are not toxic, and having an incentive to encourage your team to play better and hold a better attitude WILL help. All it takes is someone to decide to be nice to make it a reality. When you said " it's not worth half the time trying to calm them down or to reason with them so i don't bother", thats probably because you are not used to doing it, or not good at doing it. Once you learn the tricks to calm people down then it works a lot of the time and a game can be turned. The thing is, I shouldn't have to turn the team. I should be with similar players who encourage one another. By the loosk of it, you wouldn't be in the queue.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Once again, muting does not solve the problem. And no, raging isn't human nature. There are plenty of players that are not toxic, and having an incentive to encourage your team to play better and hold a better attitude WILL help. All it takes is someone to decide to be nice to make it a reality. When you said " it's not worth half the time trying to calm them down or to reason with them so i don't bother", thats probably because you are not used to doing it, or not good at doing it. Once you learn the tricks to calm people down then it works a lot of the time and a game can be turned. The thing is, I shouldn't have to turn the team. I should be with similar players who encourage one another. By the loosk of it, you wouldn't be in the queue.

Muting does solve quite a bit of issues and raging is human nature, whether or not they show it is another different story entirely. If humans weren't selfish bastards, raging assholes and whatnot then half of the horrible things that happen throughout history wouldn't happen. Half the time it is not worth trying to "calm" people who troll or rage since they do it well knowing what they are doing and how it will impact others. Not many will rage/troll/whatever accidentally and even then those type of people will know what they did was wrong and will calm themselves down without much help from others.

I have never been warned for negative behavior, never been banned and every single time Riot hands out something to positive players i always get whatever they were giving. The only time in my 3~4 years in league (however long Shyvana has been out) that i have been warned was in my first year when my internet was absolute garbage and i kept DC'ing from matches so i got a leaver warning once. I would very well be in the queue which wouldn't do anything to actually try to solve the trouble of the toxic players being toxic it would just make a few privileged be happy while everyone else is pretty much screwed, also that would mean queue times would be really long for those privileged ones which not many will like. You might not have issues with having long queues but some just don't have the time to wait so what then? do something bad to force themselves out of the long queue times? or just get to play less? that's not much of a reward for being positive i'd say. Not to mention now you have plenty of neutral/toxic players playing with each other which will only cause neutral players to slowly lose their minds just because some selfish pricks didn't want to deal with the occasional toxic player that might ruin their game

Jiasu1 votes

I've never raged in a game, and so do many people. Uncontrollable anger is not inherent in people, and can be taught and encouraged. I have on multiple occasions calmed people down and taken the win, they often thank at the end of the game. It is not easy.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

[{quoted}](name=L0rd Catfish,realm=OCE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=UmWEwX3Y,comment-id=000100000000000000000000,timestamp=2015-09-01T08:56:47.415+0000)

I've never raged in a game, and so do many people. Uncontrollable anger is not inherent in people, and can be taught and encouraged. I have on multiple occasions calmed people down and taken the win, they often thank at the end of the game. It is not easy.

good for you, never said that there are people who never rage in games, doesn't mean you don't rage elsewhere in life and i highly doubt they "often thank at the end of the game" but if you say so

Blissed1 votes

level 1...

Digielf1 votes

It doesnt have to do anything with League are you new to the internet or in gaming? thats how PVP is in general and in all the mobas

Jiasu1 votes

There are plenty of games with good communities, its what I mainly look for in a game. Especially when the game designers encourage it

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