I'm just going to keep posting these until riot says they're doing something about it

Auteyus·May 10, 2014·10 votes·328 views

19/20 of my games (gold 3) feature a troll on one or both teams. AFK, Intentional feeding, or raging so hard at their teammates. Its inexcusable. Tribunal IS NOT WORKING. Fix this. It is stressful playing this game with these kinds of people in the community. I play games for fun, not to be tortured by the socially-inept. I am seriously thinking about trying out other MOBAs to see if they deal with their community better.

17 Comments

ManchetteMay 10, 20143 votes

This does in fact seem to be a serious issue, and having it addressed would be able to at least give us some assurance as to what is going on in the EUW.

RhytoMay 11, 20142 votes

I think in general the Tribunal has been set in recess.

JackYAquaMay 10, 20142 votes

I'm actually gonna upvote this, because I can relate.
I've been reporting people non-stop and it just feels like I get at least one troll/rager/afk in every single one of my games.
I don't know if it has something to do with the tribunal, but it just makes the game less fun :(
Now I'm spamming ARAMs with a friend, at least I can get my daily win that way.

Nameless VoiceMay 10, 20142 votes

I don't know about the other regions, but on EUW the Tribunal has been in recess (aka down) for months, and now toxic players just laugh and say nothing will happen to them because the Tribunal is gone.

Presumably all the reports are still being tracked, but even before the Tribunal went down, most of the cases in there were for games 5+ months old, and this huge downtime is just making an even larger time gap between offences and potential punishments.

Sir ArmaMalumMay 10, 20142 votes

I'm in Gold III right now and not having this issue. Granted there's always the occasional one, but 90% or so of my games have been run of the mill ranked games. i.e. normal brief rages at mistakes, maybe some guy trying to trashtalk and failing hilariously, nothing too major. Haven't had an intentional feeder in I think 10 games or so.

RhytoMay 11, 20141 votes

I was on the tribunal and a player was reported for being a bot who just fed 0-29-0 and never spoke throughout the match and apparently just walked in the lane to their death. It does beg the question if it was intentional or a bot.

Sir ArmaMalumMay 11, 20141 votes

I'm not saying intentionally feeding doesn't happen, just that my experience is inconsistent with that of the OP, to give an even ground on the subject.

RhytoMay 11, 20141 votes

I didn't mean to bring ground on this, sorry for doing so.

Sir ArmaMalumMay 11, 20141 votes

ah np, I misinterpreted, my bad

Lady LuckMay 10, 20142 votes

Since you want to have fun, try playing normals. According to Lyte the toxicity is a lot worse in ranked than normals (and my anecdotal evidence agrees with him.)

I play exclusively normals (and ARAMs) because negativity ruins games for me. I'd rather lose with a positive or neutral team than win with a negative one.

MackleDogeMay 10, 20141 votes

I was actually just playing an ARAM or two before eating since my friends aren't on and I didn't want to risk some toxicity. Both games were really fun (and one was actually a pretty intense game) and both teams were having fun joking back and forth despite the first game having an AFK. Alternate game modes often get looked over by a lot of people that play ranked, but messing around and having some fun playing them is the most sure fire way I've found to avoid tilting and keep yourself positive.

RhytoMay 11, 20141 votes

Playing in ranked is pretty much set up for those who are ready for relentless text (or for those who use it) to mute players in order to possibly win or lose a game. I sympathize your losses but the reality is that while this game is competitive ranked or not it is impossible to have a flawless streak of games where players are all nice to each other as it really depends on the player's mood as to how their performance is. I mean we can't have login Q&As of how your mood is in order to play the game so that your issues will not hurt other player's experience. If there was such a method to further the decrease the toxicity of the community I'm sure Riot would've already provided such a solution.

MackleDogeMay 11, 20141 votes

O.o...that's cool...not sure how that relates at all to what I said but..still cool?

RhytoMay 11, 20141 votes

Eh, I was trying to point out that regardless of his posting this issue is not easily solved because of the human mind.

MackleDogeMay 11, 20141 votes

Why did you reply to me then? Should have just put it as a comment lol

RhytoMay 11, 20141 votes

Haha, my bad....^^;

Hyrum GraffMay 13, 20141 votes

Subjectively, I haven't seem seeing any more of this recently. My recommendation is to try out Team Builder! I've found it tends to have far less toxicity than normals, which in turn are less toxic than ranked.