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The gold system is what makes this game toxic.

WhiteTieNeko·1/29/2017, 2:55:48 AM·1 votes·1,082 views

Ok, before all, this is just my opinion.

I think that one of the sources of toxicity in most MOBA games is the gold "get money for killing and buy a lot of items" system.

This is the core of getting fed or feeding and this creates an advantange for the one getting fed thus giving a BIG disadvantage to the player who is low on gold therefore has less items and less power to battle the enemy.

Feeding (A.K.A. Giving money to the enemy) is one of the main reasons of toxic behaviour, generating insults and rage. Also its not fun when the enemy is insanely fed, because when that happens we hardly can win over the enemy.

But what if the gold system was changed or reworked?. what if you don't need to kill at all to gain any money thus not requiring it to buy items?

This will erradicate the "Feed or get Fed" problem and leaving players to battle with only their individual skill without any advantages nor disadvantages, not worrying for anyone to get an advantage (not taking in consideration general balance).

A good gold system would be something like the one on "Nexus Siege" game mode but at a slower pace, passively generating gold without the necessity to get kills or CS, and giving everyone the same amount of gold so there are no advantages or disadvantages leaving the game only to personal skill (and game balance but thats another problem).

Or maybe implement another system for the acquisition of item that doesn't involves "getting fed".

6 Comments

ScissorsNstuff1/29/2017, 2:59:45 AM3 votes

gold does not make you a dick feeding does not make you a dick

being a dick makes you a dick, they are that way because they are bad people who reveal their nature when under pressure

RivetAce1/29/2017, 2:58:30 AM1 votes

I personally think the gold system is great. What I don't like, however, is the stat system. Stats don't provide any option for outplays, for either attacker or defender.

All stats do is create a meta. The champions that best use the stats are OP. The ones that don't are trash. Look at Aatrox - once the items changed, he went from god-tier to trash-tier. (Well, the mobility creep didn't help him either.)

NiamhNyx1/29/2017, 3:00:02 AM1 votes

Thats not really a fun way to play. It always sounds good on paper, but in practice, its boring as hell.

MagicFlyingLlama1/29/2017, 3:12:35 AM1 votes

Every F2P PvP game has extreme toxicity regardless of what sort of in-match progression (or lack of) it has.

F2P games attract kids. PvP attracts kids.

Kids are toxic. Most of them are too young to be on the internet and have no control over themselves, no sportsmanship and zero respect for other people, usually a combination of age, bad parenting and bad exposure.

Truly Prideful1/29/2017, 3:16:48 AM1 votes

Early game champions that scale badly become pointless then because they can't actually build a real advantage with their early power. There is also no reward for being better than your opponent early on, all they need to do is not lose objectives and everything remains even. A system with no gold would be crappy to play as the regular game, maybe a game mode at best.