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Ranked game restrictions are a tad severe

mMs8HLdw9w··3 votes·693 views

Originally posted this in GD, but figured it would be of more value here. Anyways:

Before I start, let me preface this by saying it's a fantastic idea. Restricting people's ranked game mode access because they were toxic/afk'ed/etc does help, it definitely has cut down quite a bit of the trolls in ranked. However, there are a few huge, glaring flaws that make it in actuality a horrible system.

You have to win your games. The lowest ranked game mode restrictions I've ever seen is 35. Let's just be reasonable and assume a 50% winrate. That's 70 normal mode games you have to play before you can play ranked again.

Well, whatever, 70 games isn't that bad, right? Wrong. They can only be normal 5X5 Draft mode normals. Nothing else counts. You want to do ARAM? Nope. You want to do Dominion? Nope. How about testing out the new gamemode, Black Market Brawlers which is draft in the style you ban? Still no. Well, how about teambuilder? lol no.

None of these gamemodes count towards removing the restrictions? Why? Why must I be forced to play ~70 games of DRAFT mode only? I understand that's the setup ranked has, but my IRL friends and I LOVE the Teambuilder system, and for as hard as you guys (Riot) tried to push that system, you would think you would allow it to reduce the number of ranked restriction games.

Chat restrictions are already handled like this. Whether you win or lose, as long as you complete a game, bam, there's one chat restriction done. So why not ranked restrictions? I'm all for leaving the winning component in there, after all it gives you something to try for; the more games you win, the faster you'll be back in ranked. But at least make it where I have a tiny bit of freedom to choose the gamemode I want to play.

Any/all suggestions/feedback are welcome

7 Comments

KayVaugn1 votes

I know you said this but it's the ranked format. You got punished for being toxic in ranked, you have to play the ranked formatted gamemode because you were toxic in ranked. It's as simple as that really. Any non SR (Summoners Rift) Gamemodes are also much quicker so that's not really a punishment now is it? The moral of the story is to not be toxic.

mMs8HLdw9w1 votes

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KayVaugn1 votes

I don't know what exactly you did or said to get the restriction, but since you have said nothing about it I'm going to assume that you agree that you deserve it. Now getting ranked restriction means that you can't play with your friends because they don't want to play draft, then you won't want to have to deal with this again and hopefully you will make a note not to be toxic in ranked again so you don't have to go through this hassle again. I could be wrong and you could not care much at all, but if you do care then this is a sign to reform your toxic ways so that you don't have to deal with this again. The reform system works.

Dreadlocks1 votes

The system works to an extent.. The problem i have is that it seems to focus too much on text. (Verbal abuse) or AFKing w.e So what about the people that troll games? Intentional feed, Intentionally throw games. Their is so much that is missed. Not only does the toxic troll get stuck into staying in a game he doesnt want to be in, but he makes it hell for every1 else, and then does what he can to get ppl to get angry and say things that are reportable. I'm not saying people should or shouldn't cuss out a troll. Alls im saying is, the troll (for-long he/she isnt verbally abusing someone) will always be safe in the end game lobby.

TheSaltyScourge1 votes

Stop being toxic.

RickySpanìsh 1 votes

personally i must say :

this week i played 3 ranked games , won those and wrote almost nothing to anyone

then i went to play some champs i never play like bard/thresh/lee sin in teambuilder and blind pick on friday , i had some really bad games and though i was saying " guys i'm rly sorry . i never use this champ , iknow i'm useless this match "

i woke up on saturday morning to find out i have 75 chat restricted games and 35 draft to win before return to ranked

" why the fk should i be banned from ranked for playing bad in normals ? " was my first thought

actually its the third time, once i was banned even though i had just received the green flag for being " a real teamplayer"

i don't really get how this system works, for me there is noone to weight out the reports, you get banned only when you reach a certain amount of reports (from anyone,being them your teammates or enemies ) and noone is gonna watch how you actually performed in your last games or how the other players did , noone is gonna watch if you are like honored 70 times and reported 15 and weight this up. if there is a tribunal is just people watching " oh these guys had been reported a lot in the last 2 days, lets see how many for what and then clik on " ban button " ...

i like playing league but this year i must say i'am really unsatisfied both with the ban system and with the matchmaking

ps : matchmaking thing is about how many games i found myself matched with plats/diamonds player though being a silver 5, i'm actually fine with it as i like the challenge, but in many of these games where i may have plat in my team or vs , there is always some unranked player ( in my team or vs ) that has the worst game of his life ( like 0-13-0 or 4-22-3 or similar KDA ). personally i think the game should be enjoyable even for them and so matchmaking is kinda crap right now. i also happened to find myself in a 5 solo queue team vs premades of 3/4 people ( even obvious teams ,like 4 having same nick ) many times, and i don't get why this should happen since riot states that the game is presumed to match a premade with another premade...

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