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Verbal Abuse? Me? Whaaaaaat damnit.

Misticaltom·2/12/2015, 6:38:15 PM·1 votes·865 views

I'm rather sad right now. I'm playing games, trying to have me some fun. I'm not one who wishes to rage at his team. I don't mind if you miss your ult, ignore my words, or other such things. I don't want to come off as someone who dislikes you or want to argue with you.

Now, my last few games these past days have not been the greatest of games. But loses are loses, whatever.

What I don't like, is when the team decides that I'm at fault and decide to point out what I do wrong. Which causes me to want to argue and yada yada. I don't want to be putting people down, I don't like that.

When I received a message that I've been reported for verbal abuse, and the message from Riot tells me that it's ok to calm down and such, I get more depressed than warned. I'm thinking "I"ve never been reported for this before, and I never wanted to be reported for this. I don't want to argue or yell at people, but I'm constantly being reported for such by people? That's not cool!"

It's more hurtful that I'm being seen as Abusive than any other offense it could be saddled with, it really hurts.

I talk a lot. In all of my games I keep typing. Keep telling my team information I feel is useful. When my ult is up, when a summoner is up, when objectives are up, what I'm doing and what i think we need to do to win.

But instead, i'm being told to shut up. You're missing your X or your score is Y or you're not the boss of me, report this failure of a Champion who can't hit his Y for Verbal Abuse.

I'm just not happy, and I wanted to vent like I see others doing.

11 Comments

FHMarshy2/12/2015, 6:43:42 PM1 votes

:(

N00BC8K32/12/2015, 7:12:29 PM1 votes

Here's a cookie for the baby :(

Setije2/12/2015, 7:29:43 PM1 votes

i am the same way. its not like i care if someone does bad because every 5th game thats me. its a competition and a game. there will be a winner and a loser. if you are the loser w/e its a game have fun. But when you die and your adc goes "omg top nub" and you get ganked and die again "omg wth go kill yourself noob" then i have a problem with that and usually say something back that gets me in trouble. or when someone else is raging at someone whos 0 4 and i say dude calm down and then they flame at me and report me. thats why i have my ranked rewards gone, for sticking up for other people...

slippykitten2/12/2015, 7:33:16 PM1 votes

I report everyone i dont like for verbal abuse. Riot created an automated system to punish only verbally abusive players, so expect people to abuse it.

mvargus2/12/2015, 8:08:36 PM1 votes

I got reported after a 3 game series where my friends and I ended up continually matched with a S4 diamond rank player. I think the extent of what I said in the three games was a "not sporting" in game 2 when one of my teammates noted we had the S4 diamond on the other side. (none of us were above level 20) and a statement that "Blitz and I are new to the game" in the 3rd game after an argument over who was a "smurf" erupted in all chat. (blitz was running support to my Jinx for our team).

Now the conversation did get extremely salty during the game, and surprisingly the diamond player started a lot of it in the game 2 post-match by calling our side "noobs" and going off about how much fun it was to crush us. I suspect everyone involved got reported by the end of game 3. It was nasty, and the reports weren't exactly fair.

Sadly, that's going to happen. Players will use reports as a way to complain "I lost!" Many secretly blame the other players and the reporting system is seen as a way to punish their teammates for not playing well.

My best recommendation is to take a deep breath and then let this pass over you. Concentrate on the game. But do remember during games to only type facts. Don't allow anyone to misinterpret what was said.

Of course, things can go other ways. I know I use personal anecdotes, but they are easy for me to remember. Last night I joined a normal game where I think I was the only non level-30 on my side. At one point I made a bad play and nearly got killed. My team's Vayne saved me, but then typed. "That's the last time I save you Jinx." One of my teammates protested, but I responded. "No, I deserved it. I was where I should not have been." I don't know if that Vayne player and I will ever be friends, but my response defused the situation and prevented any escalation. However, not everyone would. As I said, one of my teammates protested the statement as "harsh" and in theory I could have reported it as "abuse". That's how fine a line you walk when typing to your teammates. In this case I agreed that I had made the mistake, and defused it, but not all players will.