Toxicity is just a massive domino effect

The Holy Father·10/12/2015, 7:19:01 AM·2 votes·458 views

I wouldn't consider myself any angry person, but I've probably been the maddest I've ever been while playing league, and that is how this entire thing starts. Player #1 has a bad few games in a row and is a little pissed off, and the next game they play, Player #2 makes a simple mistake and Player #1 really lets them know it. Player #2 is now mad and for the rest of the game plays increasingly worse. The next game Player #2 gets into, he flames Player #3 for taking his position during pick phase. Player #2 and Player #3 essentially throw the game because of how angry they are and the rest of their team is now mad. Domino effect where everyone they're mad at just gets mad and they just follow suit. A person is very rarely always toxic, unless they are, in which case they're probably just an asshole, but it's easy to see how one toxic player can just lead to a lot people being toxic. I've had more than a few occasions where someone would flame me and a friend, and then at the end of the game we would just stop playing league for the day because of how mad we are at that last game/person.

This is all under the assumption that people play worse when they're mad, which according to "Riot statistics", is true and honestly, probably is true. I recently uninstalled this game because my tolerance for the people that play this game has just gotten too low; I get a lot angrier a lot faster because at this point, I'm just expecting the toxicity or trolls. This is more than likely going to be a problem forever in this game as Riot has no way to just straight up change human psychology or behavior, and I'm sure a lot of people can just /mute everyone in their game or just know how to deal with it better than I do, but I can't think of a good solution that doesn't make me mad when somebody trolls, feeds, or is just in general toxic.

Just to throw in a few other things I enjoy about this game: (I do actually enjoy this game, just usually not the people that play it)

  1. Communication: People don't listen, they'll die and then blame you when you clearly either pinged them away from it or let them know in chat that they were headed to their death.
  2. Feeding: I don't really understand this one, but some people enjoy spending 20-60 minutes of their day trolling and intentionally giving the enemy kills. I understand the difference between someone making a mistake and dying because of it and people intentionally dying, but generally it's very easy to notice if someone is doing it intentionally or not.
  3. "It's just a game": It's true, League of Legends is just a game, but I didn't join a game so that you could intentionally play poorly because you don't care about the outcome of the game.
  4. Nobody wants to take the blame: I know when I've messed up even though I won't always admit to it, but a lot of people like to pin the blame for losing a teamfight or just dying in general, on somebody else. That's not a league specific issue, that's human nature, nobody likes pointing out they messed up.

Now, i'm by now means an amazing League of Legends player and I'll be honest, the highest rank I've climbed to is Silver 3, but I don't see myself climbing much higher due to everything I've just written.

tl;dr Toxicity is an issue, but that's just due to the way people behave, and there's no changing that.

2 Comments

Jamaree10/12/2015, 7:27:05 AM1 votes

Yup.

headlesslyte10/12/2015, 8:06:51 AM1 votes

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the thing lyte and his phd doesnt understand is when you remove every normal cooping method you get where lol is.

xbox pc play stay

every game you have ever played in a mutli player

have you ever been forced to sit in a 2040 min torture game? or ban for afk. what about the dodge penalty or a loss in ranked becuase of lobby trolls and meh break dat meta.... what about the in game harassment. NOT CHAT NO ONE IS ACTUALLY BOTHRED BY CHAT BE REAL ABOUT IT cs wars fail builds needlessly harassing via following to steal exp and last hits on any form of gold ect ect

the list goes on but the more you think about it the more youll see riots induced it and refused to admit they totally fucked up by being evolved to the length they are.

heres my personal favorite issue if you will.... lol will be remembered in all of gaming history... how much damage will it do to the gaming culture...

riots the attempt to bring the pc police into gaming

-_- if you havent try

dota or heros of the storm

my personal ranking was 1.~~ lol~~ 2. hots 3. dota

i didnt understand dota and i really like lol the reason ill only play heros now is becuase of this exact issue you are posting about

got a dick in your game? afk while it is not liked it doesn't equate to a perma ban like lol no lobbies to troll and thus no pointless lp loss

im tired need to get in bed for a appointment just know that dota and especially hots are run by companies that aren't pressuring their customers into anything

the stress doesnt run as high most games and over all the communities are better for it.

correct me if im worng but dota doest perma ban afks right? i dont play dota so i wouldnt know but as i siad above its frowned upon but any one their to have fun wont be the ones butt hurt by it

the most it bothers them is enough to make this comment in a monotone voice

"welp gg was fun gl again next game" zero anger tiny bit of frustration -_-

for blizzard to start banning you have to be a we are calling the fbi bad so its hardly a problem there since the community will run you out if you troll to much or stay to stupid they will stop bothering with you tell you feel like trying agian

edit in toxicity is a delusion that is akin to being poisoned threw the food you eat if riot stops the narrative pushing toxicity will naturally start dissipating and the players who werent being bothered with their own bad behavior would start having too. they push thebull shit narrative becuase those bad players get to blame something that isnt them selves who perform poorly or riot who regularly fucks up

hawaii alaska current ping less they fixed it lytes mmr bot that forced them to temporlly disable ranked as always the list goes on