idea to deal with a large portion of the toxic community.

Moist Alcoholic·Apr 12, 2017·2 votes·521 views

what if riot charged you to play on a monthly bases to have access to ranked? it would still be a "free" game, as other games are considered "free", despite having extra features for those who pay monthly.

this would remove a large portion of toxic and griefing players from ranked for one reason who wants to pay money to go griefing? trolls troll because its free 9/10 times.

additionally, this would increase riots revenue. which would allow for more servers = less ping in places. this would also make ranked players communicate more and continuously try to improve. unfortunately if you give someone advice in this game the majority of reciprocates will flame you/ignore you. players in solo-queue, from bronze-gold all think their way is always right.

TLDR: monthly fee for access to ranked =

less trolling/toxicity
more communication
a higher amount of lust to improve and accept constructive critism
more server rooms which = a better gaming experience for many players.

downsides: ranked queue's would increase in duration due to less players queued up (doubt any charge in bronze/silver/gold) considering the massive amount of people in these brackets

i know this much. id be willing to be pay $20/month to have access to ranked if it meant a better ranked community and improved servers.

10 Comments

Kr1sysApr 12, 20177 votes

Since I've played this game, I've heard of good ideas, ok ideas, and bad ideas.

I think I need to add another tier way below bad ideas to fit this one in.

Moist AlcoholicApr 12, 20171 votes

how about instead of just claiming its an awful idea, explain why. i think $20/month for those benefits is worth it. and again, many games give extra features for being pay 2 play.

franchise7676Apr 12, 20174 votes

i wouldnt play neither would 90% of player base. load times would be hours long and the game would die. meanwhile overwatch smite etc would flourish.

Moist AlcoholicApr 12, 20171 votes

perhaps offer a pay to play ranked ladder and a free to play one? and it would certainly barely affect bronze/silver/gold queue times. i can see high plat+ games being impacted.

franchise7676Apr 12, 20174 votes

no one is going to pay when you have a bunch of free games to choose.

Moist AlcoholicApr 12, 20171 votes

i think a lot of people would pay to reduce the amount of toxic people in their ranked games. theyd get all those positives i listed. definitely worth $20/month to a lot of people. whats $20, 2 hours of work at minimal wage (atleast here), for 30 days of substancially less trolls, better servers, and a more communicative team

ShadòwApr 12, 20172 votes

this would more result in ranked being full of toxic people.

Moist AlcoholicApr 12, 20171 votes

itd be less trolls in f2p ranked and less in p2p ranked, (some trolls would pay the $20 and see how long they can troll b4 ban) the f2p ranked would have a higher toxic player/non-toxic player ratio. but that number is currently so high. i play for atleast 20games/day on average, and i gotta say i mute ATLEAST 50 people per day. (enemy and allied players) for their toxic behavior.

ShadòwApr 12, 20173 votes

most toxicity comes from people flaming their teammates for performing bad.

when people would have to pay for ranked bad teammates would just piss them off even more. it would just increase toxicity apart from just being BS because many people would just quit the game.

so what you have left is basically a paid Ranked Queue with either 30min Queues or worse matchmaking that is either the same toxic shit or even worse while Riot is losing their playerbase.

apart from the fact that i can't see how forcing payment would reduce toxicity. there are enough paid competitive games that are just as toxic.

there are just so many thing wrong with this idea, like already being said, this would fit into a new tier below bad ideas.