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This game encourages toxic behavior.

Norwack·6/24/2015, 4:01:39 AM·20 votes·2,403 views

You know what's funny? How Riot goes out of their way to give chat restrictions and ban players for having a toxic attitude, when it's their fault this community is toxic. The core mechanics of this game are punishing and promote toxic behavior.

Before a game starts you get matched with trolls and such. There's always that one kid who says, "Top or feed" and is completely serious about it. If they don't get their way, they intentionally feed or just don't cooperate at all with the team which screws you over. Even better when that one kid instalocks when somebody else called the lane first, and then proceeds to completely get wrecked in their lane. If you dodge the game you get a short LeaverBuster penalty but if you start the game you already know you're starting it with toxic players who might make you lose.

You can be 18-2-7 carrying your team so hard, and still get completely wrecked because your bot lane fed. Imagine in Call of Duty if every time you killed someone you became stronger and your guns became more powerful, that's exactly the case with League. All it takes is 1-2 people to feed the enemy team to the point where losing is imminent. I don't mind losing but when you are winning your lane and see the rest of your team getting completely wrecked only 10 minutes in it's frustrating. This is a competitive game, people want to win and naturally get angry when their team doesn't cooperate right.

Now you're 20 minutes into a game and the enemy team already has 5 turrets while you have none. Their ADC and mid laner are fed so hard that if you try to engage them you'll get deleted. So naturally you try to surrender, but your surrender vote fails 1-4. Your whole team is getting smashed on to the point where coming back is already impossible but they insist on wasting another 20-30 minutes on a game that was a loss from the start. And now the enemy team is laughing at you in /all chat. How do you expect people to not get frustrated Riot? This happens all the time and is completely aggravating how you can't do anything about it.

Instead of fixing the core mechanics that cause the toxicity in the first place, Riot decides to just censor the community. News flash, when a player is chat restricted that makes it even harder for them to communicate with their team, only promoting toxic behavior. Chat restrictions and bans do not solve the problem of toxicity at all, in fact only making it worse. Times like these where it makes you wonder how League of Legends is the most popular game in the world with all of these apparent problems.

52 Comments

MadmanWithBox6/24/2015, 5:52:26 AM6 votes

  1. It's a mistake to assume that Riot does not care about intentional feeders. It's not unusual to forget that Riot punishes non-verbal, disruptive behavior as well as chat abuse, especially when you are the recipient of a chat restriction. Personally, I feel like it would provide useful clarity for Riot to inform us when they take disciplinary action against someone that we report.

  2. It is true that there is no context that makes it OK to be rude or mean in-chat. It's understandable to want to lash out in frustration, especially when you're stuck in a losing game with a griefer. But there's no reason for Riot to make an exception to this rule for circumstances. Just because Annoying Stranger #465 is doing a bad doesn't mean you get to do a bad, too.

Yes, it's frustrating. Yes, we hate it when random jerks waste our precious free time. But we're expected to handle it like adults and bite our tongues. Scream at your monitor and throw your keyboard if you have to, but taking your frustrations to chat is unacceptable. I would recommend finding a way to cope that does not actually make the situation worse.

Rysophage6/24/2015, 1:03:19 PM6 votes

This game makes you angry, and then bans you for getting angry LOL.

Sir Yamazuki6/24/2015, 9:06:15 PM4 votes

The game doesn't "encourage" anything, asking to change the game's mechanics will no longer make it LoL. Also, people rage no matter what type of game it is. Even PvE oriented games contain both trolls and the angry type of people. Getting frustrated and responding negatively has nothing to do with games and all to do with how humans are. So, of course punishing negative behavior while trying to encourage positive ones is the right thing to do. If you do not want to interact with humans, then you, and others who think the same way, need to stick to single player games; because no matter how much Riot changes the game, there will still be raging.

Laisenberg6/24/2015, 12:46:59 PM4 votes

So now I'm just auto locking and trolling in ranked after i got suspended 2 times. Trolling in queue is pretty fun too. Fun fact: if u afk or become toxic, u get punished. But if u just give up and go feed 2/20, nothing happens. You may even be able to chat restrict the players trying to win.

Eleshakai6/24/2015, 1:13:40 PM4 votes

Frustration does not lead to toxicity unless you have no respect for yourself.

Get some self respect and start acting like a decent person and frustration won't lead you to treat others like crap.

Arch Mage Magnus6/25/2015, 8:14:39 AM3 votes

How does 1 shit player beat 4 good ones?

He joins your team.

Supp Hero6/24/2015, 11:58:22 PM3 votes

This whole issue of feeders would be nonexistent if matchmaking took individual skill into account. Every time I see a real 'feeder' sometimes I'll look at their match history and see every game they went like 1/12/1 80 cs or some crap in EVERY GAME. Obviously matchmaking is not adjusting for this factor or they'd be matched against less skilled players, but the way Elo/MMR is calculated it takes far too long for it to adjust a player to where they should be - until then you get 10-50 games where it's a free for all of players with random skill and the noobs against good players getting destroyed.

NightAdder6/24/2015, 4:25:27 AM3 votes

Or players need to just chill out.

Karn Bishop6/25/2015, 2:26:41 AM2 votes

I've been with this game for years and i get the feeling that the game is on the starting point to its eventual death, I used to enjoy games but the amount of negative players and people who just do not connect have been rapidly increasing as of late to the point where a match is not fun, more to the point 30 min games used to be the norm and now its 1 hr with a toxic group raging at each other.

WyvernEgg6/25/2015, 1:55:31 AM1 votes

tl;dr