RIOT is adding Toxicity with new Borders

II AfLiXn II·11/12/2015, 5:12:24 PM·3 votes·625 views

I think we can all safely assume that at one point (or multiple points) we have all been flamed by that one guy/girl for being a "Bronze" "Silver" or "Gold" player. It usually goes like this: Ahri : "GG If only our WW jungle ganked more, WW you're so bad, no wonder you're in Silver scrub"

Now replace silver with "Bronze", "Gold", "Plat" etc. and I guarantee you its been said about you as a player at some point. With the introduction of Borders that show what tier you are in for a specific division I can see this happening even more but with a subtle change, and most likely more frequently.

Ahri : "GG If only our WW jungle ganked more, WW you're so bad, no wonder you're in Silver 4 scrub. Jeez all tier 4's suck" And the Ahri is just a Silver 3 etc...

I've worked wayyyy to hard to get to Plat, albeit "Plat 5" but I don't want people flaming me for it.. Also it's taken me 3 years to get to this point and now my sense of accomplishment feels cheated.

It's going to add more toxicity to the game and I feel that RIOT needs to understand this. Why can't people just get an icon for being in a specific tier for a division. I don't need my Plat 5 tier to be advertised to every player prior to entering a match. It's just going to make people flame.

Please up vote this if you feel the same way!

3 Comments

UberAffe11/12/2015, 5:17:35 PM1 votes

sorry but I cant see anyone paying enough attention/remembering to the tier you are in to use it in their toxic ranting. At worst all it would do is change what the toxic phrase is, not how often they say it.

ThePartyLeader11/12/2015, 5:18:00 PM1 votes

Never have seen this. I have had people call each other bronze but not due to borders. And why should a plat 1 be punished by having the same border as a plat 5? The mmr and skill differences between the 5s and 1s is vastly different from my experience. Plus I would think that doing this helps ranked because people have a reason to play more than just getting a 5 in there division.