This behavior needs to stop
Hold on stop, I'm sure you think this is another thread complaining about how people act in game. Well to the contrary, let me drop some truth on you.
It has become a fairly common opinion that the number one problem with league is the toxic community. People are always complaining more and more about the mean things that people say to them in game. Taken from these complaints, is Riot's mindset in which also believes that this is the number one problem with their game, which of course leads them on a crusade toward an unobtainable and idealistic world. The problem is that once you start drawing a line in the sand of what is okay and what is not, it never ends. It will always be pushed by anything that is borderline and did not make the cut. (Why is calling someone this okay but calling someone that is not?) First, the main points I'm trying to get across:
Riot - I absolutely respect what you are trying to do here with problem behavior. But you need to understand that in the world of online gaming, people messing with each other can never be, and should never be, changed. In your attempt to do so, you are fast approaching actions that will begin to drive the community away. What you have in place right now is plenty good enough (Language filters, ignore button, report button, etc).
**Players **- Let's just be honest here, a vast majority of us simply just do not care what some random jackass says online. We grew up in this environment, it's always existed, we've all done it at some point, and we forget about it the moment the next game starts or we walk away from our computer/console. We need to let Riot know that we don't care THAT much and to stop stressing out over it. Stop encouraging the emerging culture that is so easily offended that it ruins the game play experience.
MAIN POINT: The only outcomes that will come from chasing an impossible world (where everyone online is a complete carebear to one another) is one that is overly regulated, harshly / unfairly / inconsistently punished, and just as stressful as any other part of our lives. >> Grow a pair and stop caring about what people say online. You don't know them, its not personal. YOU should not let it effect YOU <<
Now lets talk about the WHY. My reasoning is as follows:
We need to take a look down the road and the possible outcomes of our actions and then compare them to the current environment. As the complainers get more and more support and nourishment from Riot and other players, they become the perfect metaphor of a spoiled whimpy child who continues to cry more and more over increasingly trivial matters. The only outcomes that can logically come from this is where Riot regulates so much that it feels like kindergarten all over again.
Next, let's look at the online gaming community. Is league really any different from other games? Every online game I've ever played (I'm 27 years old) has always had people giving each other a hard time. Quite frankly, I enjoy it. I'm sure theres a lot of people who do. If i get outplayed and some guy adds a "noob" on top of it, I smile and go "alright you bastard lets dance". I, like most people, take it for what it is.
Lastly and probably most importantly, this behavior will never change. No matter how much you try to regulate it, how much you try to control what people say or how they treat each other online, it will never change. The best you can do is put in the necessities and then just leave it be.
**TL:DR **People need to cool it on the complaining about behavior, the only thing you will accomplish is pushing Riot into holding everyones hand and treating you like school-child.
