Toxic players in League of Legends, Depression, Anxiety, etc.

excuse me um ily·Jan 4, 2015·7 votes·2,720 views

So I've been noticing more and more toxic players in game lately, and I really really am disappointed by this. There is so much toxicity and arguments that start when there's someone who isn't that good or when someone makes a mistake. I'm not saying that I'm never one of these people, but I'm saying we could all improve as a community to become better c: There are a lot of people going through a very hard time in life right now, and adding onto it would be rather selfish. We probably wouldn't even realize We're adding negative things, or care, but if it was turned back onto US we would. I have personally gone through depression and anxiety and even though it seems like a small deal, it can cut you down and make you want to kill yourself. Some people are really sensitive. I just wanted to bring this to people's attention! I love you all and have a happy new year!

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Poptart EvelynnJan 4, 20154 votes

I'm not sure how to explain it but I'll attempt to. It's that people feel they are better than what they are and believe they can be pro. They have a false dream to get paid to play video games. So when they can't get up to the higher ranks they get emotional over the game as if everyone is holding them back from going pro. They get sad/depressed go tilt then take that emotions out on the other players. They waste all their precious time on League and when they can't get there it's like invested time that they just cant let go.

excuse me um ilyJan 4, 20151 votes

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I'm not sure how to explain it but I'll attempt to. It's that people feel they are better than what they are and believe they can be pro. They have a false dream to get paid to play video games. So when they can't get up to the higher ranks they get emotional over the game as if everyone is holding them back from going pro. They get sad/depressed go tilt then take that emotions out on the other players.

nono I mean many people are depressed from life itself or are suicidal, but I see what you mean!

Poptart EvelynnJan 4, 20151 votes

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nono I mean many people are depressed from life itself or are suicidal, but I see what you mean!

And league is part of that reason.

excuse me um ilyJan 4, 20151 votes

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And league is part of that reason.

Yeah I guess some people get suicidal from league (like one of the pros on one of the teams but I forgot his name). Which is why I want people to remember to be nicer to people, even if it's just one game where you say something or you compliment a friend or something. Anything. Really, it would be nice.

ImHerVoiceJan 4, 20152 votes

thats cute, that you're explaining your own mentality for the rest of us to try and relate to.

Many years ago I had my chance to go pro. 2 different times Once with halo. Once with league.

I turned both down because I'm taking care of my entire family myself. =]

Pro players are all selfish pricks and anything they say is just publicity. You don't see pros donating to charity often do you? No. you Don't. you see them PLAYING charity games. But is that really money out of their pocket? or just a higher organizition. Pros these days are a bunch of overpaid losers who aren't even good at the games they play. They're pampered beyond all recoginition on top of usually having a very poor work ethic that doesn't actually improve their play at all.

I'm upset how degraded the gaming community has become over the past 15 years/ broodwar was a real community.

LaMaLiCkErJan 4, 20152 votes

you should right science fiction, youre damn good at it

ImHerVoiceJan 4, 20151 votes

pats head*

20748556DEL1Jan 4, 20153 votes

This game is a goverment psy op. A social experiment.

Look at the name "Riot". Riots occur when people are mad about how things are going and they go into the streets to smash stuff up. The game is a form of pacifying people from Rioting. Instead of venting in the streets they do it in this game. Look at the Riot fist animation. A fist smashing your computer screen. That's telling of the intended anger this game is inciting.

The very core mechanics of the game are what cause the community to be hate filled.

What game punishes you for your allies' mistakes? What I mean by that is if you're playing league and your ally feeds kills, he has just made the game harder/more difficult/less fun for you.

If your ally in CoD TF2 or other games die, the enemy doesn't start to get snowballed stats. You don't mind if they don't do well because it doesn't affect your gameplay. You're as good as you play and the other team won't get better stats if you team doesn't do well.

If your team is feeding you can completely outplay the other team in skill but it won't matter because they still have the gold/level/dragon buff lead.

No other game puts that amount of pressure on your own team. Sure there are mechanics that work similar but not the same permanent snowball stat increase.

Yulen XoshxiusJan 4, 20152 votes

I play this partially due to depression, so I find the irony in settling here. However, I tend to laugh more about the trolls than get upset. I watch a lot of penguinz0 and daithe who I use as rolemodels on how to react to unpleasureable behaviours.

excuse me um ilyJan 4, 20152 votes

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I play this partially due to depression, so I find the irony in settling here. However, I tend to laugh more about the trolls than get upset. I watch a lot of penguinz0 and daithe who I use as rolemodels on how to react to unpleasureable behaviours.

I wish everyone could be strong like you! *(and a great mindset

Yulen XoshxiusJan 4, 20151 votes

I am not, if people can hit my weakspots I can have real problems, but on the computer I don't have to worry about that so I hide here. The same anonymitty that makes these people feel like misbehaving makes me feel safer here, granted I do not abuse that. I feel like people troll because they have their own problems somewhere along the line. The community of trolls makes them stressed and infects them, real life problems, etc. But they handle it differently is all. I doubt that most of these trolls would behave like this in real life to people's faces, although there are exceptions.

excuse me um ilyJan 4, 20151 votes

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I am not, if people can hit my weakspots I can have real problems, but on the computer I don't have to worry about that so I hide here. The same anonymitty that makes these people feel like misbehaving makes me feel safer here, granted I do not abuse that. I feel like people troll because they have their own problems somewhere along the line. The community of trolls makes them stressed and infects them, real life problems, etc. But they handle it differently is all. I doubt that most of these trolls would behave like this in real life to people's faces, although there are exceptions.

I think you're right c: I know what you mean.. I have certain triggers that only sometimes people can hit. The negativity I'm talking about is in general not making anyone's lives any better, and really the community doesn't need people who constantly act that way. (I mean the ones that are always toxic, not just once in a while)