Calm down, it is just a game.

Kikirino·10/30/2014, 4:24:25 PM·75 votes·21,330 views

"Just a game? 5 stages, $2 million cash prize. This isn't game."

So... when did my Gold 2 match become Worlds? I won so I want my $2 million Riot and you can just mail me the 5 stages. I expect an Email by the end of the work week.

Enemy top laner lost his lane so his team raged at him and told us to 'fkg push fkg mid'. We told them to calm down because it is just a game. We all have had players lose. In fact, every single game has a loser. Stop getting pissed about it. It will not help them play better. It will not make you more likely to win. Also, it is just a game. I am not saying that because it is okay to be bad or anything. I am saying it because you should not get so mad about someone losing. It is a game. You are not playing Worlds. There is not $2 million on the line. Calm your ass.

EDIT: I feel as if I could have worded my post better as some people are reading it as no one should take the game serious or I am attempting to devalue your experience. That is not what I meant at all. My entire point is that it is a game and someone doing badly in a game is never a reason to get pissed and rage at them. That is my point. I play ranked. I want to climb. I want to do better. I hate losing. But one thing I hate more than losing is seeing a team group up to attack someone that is playing poorly. I have played matches in which I dominated and I felt bad because I had the honor of reading /all chat hate towards the player I was beating. I have had matches in which I played like trash and got the blunt end of the hate stick.

It sucks. Both being the victim and being a spectator. It is a game and losing in a game is never a valid reason to verbally attack someone.

156 Comments

Pendragon10/30/2014, 6:28:56 PM69 votes

We could just secretly inject well-executed AI bots into random pvp games (as full 5 teams of course) that are designed to keep all players at a 65-70% win rate.

They would have normal player names like xKiller911x and do normal player things like not buy boots by level 10.

Jack Peterson10/30/2014, 6:21:08 PM13 votes

How i climbed from b4 to gold.

Not giving a fuck and trying to win without raging.

Potatofaktman10/30/2014, 5:40:49 PM12 votes

So many people forget that it's just a game, I mean I guess it's somewhat understandable in ranked(not really) but when it happens in normals I just don't know what to say :/

Joe Dredd10/30/2014, 5:35:00 PM11 votes

It's because ragers are mega nerds who fear their e-dick will shrink if they lose a match.

Drunk Rummate10/30/2014, 6:18:29 PM9 votes

play football in your back yard with some friends

"omg super bowl gets 100 million viewers you can't say this is just a game"

no man. it's just a game. and there are people of varying intensities playing with you because it's the internet. get over it.

SarahElle10/31/2014, 12:10:48 AM7 votes

**Its not "just a game", however it is "a game"! **

I enjoy league win or lose. Sometimes I play awesome, sometimes I am the best person on the team, and others are making the worst plays , plays even I wouldn't make. Sometimes I'm so awful I feel like I just stated playing again my first day.

I think the thing to point out is, yes there are people who take it seriously and we need to respect that. We should encourage them and wish them luck, in hopes they become the top players they want to be. For some people, league is the only thing that makes their day worth it all.

HOWEVER, we do NOT need to respect being called a million names plus one because we are having a bad game, or losing, because we happen to be with team mates that are serious LOL'ers. That is never right. Raging at the team only ensures your loss. In the games I have seen, ragers only made those who were doing badly play worse. In games where there were jovial, happy and constructive people, many times the team pulled through for the win.

Your team is not your enemy. They are playing a game , same as you. **Just because they don't take it as seriously as you does not mean they want to lose. **Winning is better than losing, weather you play games for fun or not. Just remember that next time you come across a team mate doing badly. Try to be a team mate, not the jerk that makes the game unplayable.

I understand in ranked. I do not have the need to be numero uno in the league world. I don't want to climb any ladders, or be on tv or whatever. I want to play this game that I love, spend time with family and friends, tend the garden, maybe go shopping and get the chores done, and come right back to playing league. It is truly an enjoyable part of my day, and I am fully addicted. So I do not do ranked, ever! **I do have to agree and say that if you are in ranked and have no care or desire for competition and do not take the game as a serious , heavy game, and don't care if its win or lose, then do not do ranked! **

Stay in normals and all the other fun game modes. I wish hexakill were perm. I wish to see that urf mode too, and probably wish it were perm. But even there , there are people who are too angry and too serious! So , to go with my last point , **normals and other game modes are not ranked mode! People come to play a game that is fun, as games are generally meant to be fun. Win or lose it is fun. If you want serious competition, go to ranked! **

But remember, no matter what, there is no excuse to be a jerk. We are only human.

((As for people who intentionally ruin the game, and yes I understand and have seen MANY, just mute report and move on. No use getting your self in trouble because you decided to hit the enter key. Just remember, you can always play again, and your next game will rock!))

Anyone want to play sometime, I am usuallyin ARAM. Super exciting stuff, and fair warning, I am mediocre with most champs, really bad with a few, and if I am lucky, totally kick*** with a couple!

YoungFishFillet10/30/2014, 6:47:26 PM5 votes

This is the best poat I have ever seen. I dont understand why people take this so seriously. It is just a game. Peoplen should try going outside

TenSlashTen10/30/2014, 8:43:48 PM5 votes

you dont get it because you obviously have a shitload of time to waste. But for those of us with a real life.

Yes its a game. But we log on to have fun. And some idiot ruining that fun/wasting our time. Is tilting. Simple to understand, if you';re a working joe like any average human being with an actual life. Then you hate wasting time. It's probably the worst thing anyone can do to you.. Is WASTE...YOUR...TIME... Understand?

THere, now you understand why most people get upset. think outside the box instead of being one of those retards that types "its just a game" in passive agressive tone just to troll the other player as you mute them.

This new generation of gamers.. make me sick..."its just a game"...Rofl..What a joke.

If its not important to you unistall and never play again. The rest of us who care and want to improve will stay and have our "just a game."

Forest Gem10/30/2014, 6:16:34 PM5 votes

Most of these people forget what fun is. I played Hexakill yesterday with a champ I just bought and our Swain decided to complain about us on all chat and kept picking on me in particular, especially after I reminded him that it's just a game. Didn't help that he was flaming me for feeding when Jinx died three more times than I did. I reported him for verbal abuse. He was really pissed about losing, too.

The Mormonator10/30/2014, 6:21:34 PM4 votes

I have no problem with someone getting angry if our team isn't making intelligent decisions, just because it's a game doesn't excuse people from being bad and making poor decisions in a ranked game.

darkdill10/31/2014, 6:44:42 PM1 votes

Why is it whenever I hear those "just a game" words that I want to kick the ass of the player who said it?

Not that I have done so to date...

Byakuya Kuchiki10/31/2014, 10:36:29 PM1 votes

If youre playing ranked its not just a game get it through your thick skull