Multiple Accounts is an Issue that Needs to be Addressed (solution proposed)

HalcyonDweller··1 votes·487 views

Premise: toxic players just make new accounts so they can continue to play even if their account gets banned.

Example: Last night I played a game with 3 friends, our fifth player, given to us by matchmaking, was a Jinx. One of my friends played Kennen support, and did not do well. The Jinx player became upset because Kennen was feeding, and became increasingly toxic and defeatist. They trash talked and tried to surrender at 20. When the rest of the team voted no, they afk'd at fountain and just harassed us in chat for the rest of the game. I tried to point out that they would have more fun if they were getting kills and fighting in teamfights (we were doing quite a good job holding out 4v5, and with Jinx we would have stood a very good chance of a comeback). When Jinx responded with more harassment, I asked them to stop harassing us and that we would report them.

They responded with, "I don't care, I have 4 accounts."

If we want to improve the player experience we ought to stop toxic players from being able to just continue playing on a different account. Players can completely circumvent the reform system by creating extra accounts.

Proposed solution: Block MAC or IP addresses associated with banned accounts.

In layman's terms: Every device which communicates over the internet us required to have a unique identifier which is stored on the device and cannot be changed. This tag is used to identify the device during communications, a lot like IP addresses. My suggestion is that RIOT implements bans to affect devices, not just accounts.

It should be possible to program the League of Legends servers to check login requests against a blacklist which could be comprised of all the MAC addresses of banned accounts' most recent devices (either their computers or even their network routers and switches). If the servers reject any computer (or any computer on a router's network) that a banned account has used (for the duration of that ban) then that player would not be able to re-enter matches and continue to impact other players' game experience.

These are my thoughts on the issue, I won't claim to know everything, or be the best at anything. I just love League and want it to remain fun for all of us to enjoy. What are your thoughts on the issue?

EDITS:

1: I am aware that college networks could be an issue for locking out all devices on a router, so obviously to implement this under those circumstances it would need to block only the computer's MAC addresses, and not the network devices.

2: I am also aware that there are some ways around MAC address blocking, but since they are complicated and rather difficult / memory intensive I believe that this would still work to prevent the majority of the player-base from taking advantage of multiple accounts.

16 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer2 votes

I'm pretty sure they have done something along those lines before. Incarnation was completely permabanned before they let him back in, and he showed that he reformed

HalcyonDweller1 votes

So that player I played with could get locked out of league just like I am asking about?

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

Not entirely sure. I think it might be possible, but only for the worst of the worst

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Alright, well that is a small relief. Thank you :)

D Bag1 votes

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Alright, well that is a small relief. Thank you :)

4 =/= 5

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Live2LetDie2 votes

Multiple accounts are fun:) you can try new things on an alt

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Honestly for that purpose I totally agree with you. It is only a problem when players abuse their extra accounts to get away with continuing toxic behavior.

D Bag2 votes

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Example: Last night I played a game with 4 friends, our fifth player, given to us by matchmaking, was a Jinx. One of my friends played Kennen support, and did not do well. The Jinx player became upset because Kennen was feeding, and became increasingly toxic and defeatist. They trash talked and tried to surrender at 20. When the rest of the team voted no**, they afk'd at fountain and just harassed us in chat for the rest of the game.** I tried to point out that they would have more fun if they were getting kills and fighting in teamfights (we were doing quite a good job holding out 4v5, and with Jinx we would have stood a very good chance of a comeback). When Jinx responded with more harassment, I asked them to stop harassing us and that we would report them.

You were 4-man premade...Who are "they"? infact "I played a game with 4 friends" 1 + 4 = 5 man pre-made

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HalcyonDweller1 votes

3 friends. That was a typo, there were 4 of us.

D Bag1 votes

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3 friends. That was a typo, there were 4 of us.

So Jinx and one of your premade friend harassing you guys? "they afk'd at fountain and just harassed us in chat for the rest of the game."

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D Bag1 votes

Oh so now you downvoted me for corrected your mistakes lol. What a salty kid.

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HalcyonDweller1 votes

Downvoted because you're being a grammar nazi, as proven by your later comment. You're being a smartass. Nobody likes a smartass. The words I chose for the post were effective enough to communicate my point across.

AntiFlash1 votes

Mute button, there are also legitimate reasons for having a secondary account.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

Mute button does nothing to deal with afk-ers ruining the game. First off, what legitimate reasons? Secondly, multiple accounts isn't the main issue here, the issue is toxic players getting around the reform system and just logging back into a different account to continue ruining players' experiences even after they've been banned.

andooo1 votes

I've seen a system similar to this from another game. These both happen:

  1. perma account ban
  2. 1 to 3 month ban of ip address or hardware id (your computer)

So then people get banned, think about what they're done for 3 months, and then can come back and make new accounts, if they please. I think that's the compromise you're looking for.

HalcyonDweller1 votes

This would be perfect! Thank you for the suggestion, I will reference this when I submit the question to RIOT Support.

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