If you have a permabanned account but haven't had a report or ban history on your new account in over a year, would a Rioter unban your permabanned account? My account is clean and I haven't had any punishment in over a year, so I'd like to get my old Season 2 account with Championship Riven on it back :(
No, sorry. They used to have a program where players could show they were reformed by leveling a new account to 20 so they'd get their account back, but it was scrapped because the success rate was abysmally low; nearly all of those players couldn't make it to 20 before being banned on their new account or they'd go right back to being toxic once they got their main account returned.
Probably not going to happen.
i would kinda like that... i have 3 or 4 permabanned accounts and about 7 acounts banned from being on GD
Probably not going to happen. HOWEVER, I will say, I like the idea of toxic players who reform getting their old accounts back. My guess is it would be extremely rare, since most toxic players never learn and only get worse and worse. But, if a player made a new account, got to level 30 and then played regularly for a full year without ever being punished even one time I think getting their old account back as a reward for reforming would be a nice "welcome back to the community" gift.
The problem I see is that how do you define "regularly"? How do you tell the difference between the reformed player and the douche bag who makes a new account and plays it one time a week and is stupidly over the top nice in that one game, while trolling his heart out on his OTHER new account where he is every bit as toxic as he ever was?
I like the idea of 'account redemption' for players who really do reform and work extremely hard over a long period of time to become good community members, but I see too many problems with actually implementing that system for it to become a reality.
1,000 seems excessive to me. I've been playing since season 1 and I have somewhere between 2k-3k games on my account. However, I could see something like a combined time and # of games played requirement.
I'm not against the idea. I've never been banned at all, but I do like the idea of account redemption for those who reform, I just see a lot of difficulties with implementing it. I'm totally for it, but I'm not sure that RIOT is going to be convinced to put something like that in when, in reality, probably under 1% of banned players would ever reform to the point of getting their accounts back.
My thought is, from RIOTs point of view it looks like: We put this in, it rewards the 1% of the 10% of our players who are banned and then truly reform, but to reward that .001% of our player base we're going to have to put up with 100% of those banned players who get banned and whine about getting their accounts back but don't deserve it. Plus those .001% of players now have a new account with over 500 games played on it, so why do they desperately need the old one anyway?
Witness the DarkLarvitar guy above who has had whopping 10 or 11s account banned!! and still thinks he deserves to get them back. I like the idea, but it'd be a headache for RIOT to deal with and I doubt you'd convince them the upside was worth it.
I think the biggest question is: Can you convince RIOT that putting a system like this in place would cause a significant number of players to truly reform who would NOT have reformed otherwise? If the answer is no, then, as much as I may agree with you that the idea is a nice one, it isn't going to happen.
