This Season = Downfall of League of Legends

Im knawt a smurf··5 votes·1,531 views

I'm sure this post is going to be removed because Riot Games has slowly turned in to "give us all the feedback you can" to "negative feedback will be deleted," but here we go.

Due to the changes being made to the upcoming season, and the overemphasis of assassin and armor stacking at the same time (yup), I have come to the conclusion that League of Legends is going to die. Soon.

Riot Game. Has turned into a company that expressed the love for playing outside the meta and just having fun, in to a game where if you play outside the meta it is deemed "Toxic and a negative environment for other players by playing outside the meta." There are proofs and screenshots of Riot employees justifying bans for that exact reason.

This game has evolved to millions of players who have no say in their community. Where Riot focuses on board games before considering their player's needs for customer support, a community where passive aggression reigns king (even the Riot Employees are passive aggressive in-game and through customer support email), and a game that was made to be played because it is fun, not because you need a sense of achievement via ranks or performance.

Riot used to give all players an equal and fair chance in a tribunal or relooking at a case of punishment, be it bans, chat bans, or perma bans. Now Riot Games only cares for the professional players or those with any sort of visibility within the community from "reformed" professionals. Riot will tell any ordinary player who has showed proof of reform that they have been permabanned and it doesn't change the fact they WERE toxic, yet we see multiple cases of pros and streamers being unbanned due to their influence on the community to both watch and play this game.

In the end, this game is dying due to the useless gameplay changes being made (idgaf about an explosive flower in my jungle). It is dying due to the people running the game and "enforcing" their flawed judgement on the community that helped build them to who and where they are today.

I've had numerous of accounts and yes I have been perma banned for being toxic, but these days if you are toxic for 2 out of 100 games you've played, you are judged and punished quickly for those 2 games with ZERO consideration for the other 98, which is another flaw. Riot takes zero consideration to anyone personally or any situations they have been in. Most people play this game as a release from stresses in their life and they are damned for being triggered, more than likely by another person in the game, and Riot just tells you "sorry your toxic, now excuse me while I get a paycheck for sending out automated emails all day because we don't care to add a customer service line for the biggest competitive game in the f***ing world."

Rest in peace League of Legends and may your contradictions and hypocrisy be the end of you.

23 Comments

Deep Terror Nami6 votes

I'm sure this post is going to be removed because Riot Games has slowly turned in to "give us all the feedback you can" to "negative feedback will be deleted," but here we go.

Moderators delete posts that break the Universal Rules, nothing else. Negative feedback doesn't inherently do that.

Due to the changes being made to the upcoming season, and the overemphasis of assassin and armor stacking at the same time

Metas come and go.

a game where if you play outside the meta it is deemed "Toxic and a negative environment

I can only assume you're referring to the Support Singed fiasco. The specialist which answered could have phrased it better, but banning people for breaking the meta was not the intended message. You can read a clarification of Riot's position on this matter here.

Where Riot focuses on board games before considering their player's needs for customer support...

Mechs vs Minions isn't interfering with Riot's focus on League support. I don't know what issue you had that makes you think it is, but if you had a problem with player support then say it, don't beat around the bush. I can't help with what you're giving me.

Riot used to give all players an equal and fair chance in a tribunal or relooking at a case of punishment, be it bans, chat bans, or perma bans. Now Riot Games only cares for the professional players or those with any sort of visibility within the community from "reformed" professionals.

The Tribunal actually sucked. It was slow, and players didn't judge consistently. The Instant Feedback System works within 15 minutes of the triggering report and is consistent with how it handles cases. Is it perfect? No, but if you have an issue with its ruling you can request a manual review. Riot does not treat the average player differently than a streamer/pro; if they deserved a ban it will not be lifted any more than yours wouldn't be. You might be referring to cases such as Jensen, but he did not receive his accounts back, he was banned as a player and they lifted that so he can make new accounts and participate in pro play again.

I've had numerous of accounts and yes I have been perma banned for being toxic, but these days if you are toxic for 2 out of 100 games you've played, you are judged and punished quickly for those 2 games with ZERO consideration for the other 98

It's extremely unlikely that 2 games out of 100 will get you punished, certainly not permabanned, unless you are extremely toxic so as to warrant it. If you are confused with why your case(s) was handled the way it was, feel free to post the reform card/tickets here so we can go over them with you. Sometimes mistakes are made, but as I said, Riot can manually review it and help if you didn't deserve it.

Im knawt a smurf1 votes

You take bits and pieces of what I say as opposed to the follow ups I put and you make an argument based on what you want to argue against.

"Metas come and go" not an actual response to what I said, it was a diss on the fact they're contradicting themselves with where they want to bring the new season.

I know full well their position, your passive aggression along with the rest of the community is noted, but you can't say "oh they should've worded their reasoning better" when the ACTIONS THEMSELVES resulted in a ban.

It's not the fact it's not interfering with the actual game, it's the fact they put money and effort in to something when they could invest it in to idk...a customer support line in order to respond to issues faster as opposed to an email that takes 24-48 hours to get a response from.

The tribunal was slow, but it was efficient. Consistency was based on what the players found as "offensive" or "toxic" not a robot looking for set phrases and words and banning based on that which, by the way, go ahead and be toxic 2 games in a row and let me know if you aren't punished for it at this point.

A ban being lifted in any sort of way goes against their "summoner's code" which...since you linked it to me you should be familiar with it. The fact they even allowed a player that was clearly toxic doesn't bother me because attitudes are human nature and this community needs to grow up and get a back bone, but when apparent boosters and, at the time, elo boosters were being allowed back in after that's where the contradiction sets in. Perma bans were handed out to ANY players who had separate IPs or suspicious account sharing activities on their account and is then justified by Riot as "boosting" or "3rd party content" and it was just a vague ban spam on thousands of accounts since their system included using Curse client in game, they fixed the issue with SOME players, but still undeservingly kept bans issued on accounts that some shared with their family or friends.

This community thrives on negativity yet denies it's existence within Riot and makes the excuse "they're not perfect, they could have worded it differently." THE COMMUNITY is understanding of what a human being is yet Riot only sees us as revenue and numbers. Wake up.

CrimsonCobra31 votes

You sound very bitter about this.

ChargeItDownMid4 votes

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Im knawt a smurf1 votes

Solo q isn't going to save Riot from their constant disrespect of the community. Eventually it's going to bite them in the ass. It takes a Reddit post for Riot to put their integrity in check, and it's happened multiple times. When a game on par with League of Legends comes out or even remotely close, people will quit this game faster than Riot banning you for saying "youre trash."

CrimsonCobra31 votes

They've been amazingly respectful. I've seen Riot listen to the community more in the past year than ever. However, it's absolutely true that if a game came out that was better than League I'd try it. Simultaneously, I already like Smite better, but none of my friends play it, and I'm not as invested in it as I am into League. So it would really need to be quite a bit better than League.

Shikigami3 votes

Jesus fking christ dude. Maybe you need a breather or something.

Marshbouy2 votes

Lmao. This was said in season 6 too, but would you look at that! the game is still going strong.

Im knawt a smurf1 votes

Tell that to the 3.5 minute queue times we had in season 6 when we had insta q's in seasons 4 and 5.

Marshbouy2 votes

Uh, new matchmaking caused that, not player base decline. In fact league had it's highest player count yet in season 6.

Im knawt a smurf1 votes

No their ACCOUNT base is the highest it's been. Hence why you never run in to new players when you create a new account. It's all smurfs and like-wise even when you play at lower elos. There's always that "smurf"

Requiemsfire2 votes

First there's complaints on balance, then there's complaints about the new ranked queue but then there's that guy that posts about how league is dying.

t4JxNr2gszz2 votes

I actually feel the opposite. league of legends is in a very healthy state aside from the slightly dealing too much damage assassins. Support items feel great and i can truely see most champions being somewhat useful these days!

Im knawt a smurf1 votes

"most" champions, yet when you don't pick a strong meta champion you get reported, which is apparently bannable these days according to Riot even when the summoner's code says not to report due to not picking the meta.

t4JxNr2gszz1 votes

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"most" champions, yet when you don't pick a strong meta champion you get reported, which is apparently bannable these days according to Riot even when the summoner's code says not to report due to not picking the meta.

I've never heard of anyone getting banned because they played a champion they wanted to play. If you are walking around intentionally dying, by running into a tower or the enemy team, then there is a problem. Sorry to hear your teammates are crabby babies who don't let others do what they want to

CrazFight 2 votes

Actually last season was the downfall, this season actually seems good tho.

Zen Fury2 votes

There's always posts like this at the start of every season. Yet the game is still here.

ZephyrDrake2 votes

oh look the same post that is made in every single season and yet League is still going as strong as ever... yep the game sure is going to die this season! yup yup

Sanctimonious1 votes

Stop overreacting. It's the same stuff as last season, and the season before. They're doing some stuff better, and other stuff is going down hill. I can't recall a period where it wasn't like this. (I'm a pre-season 3, late season 2 player.)

Im knawt a smurf1 votes

Im a beta tester, this game is turning in to World of Warcraft on the terms on play rate for a good amount of people I talk to. They are doing some stuff the same and adding in some ridiculous features in-game.

Sanctimonious1 votes

I haven't played WoW, so i don't really have much of a clue on that. Though i would have to agree that a lot of this stuff is ridiculous.

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