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An unusual request

LilYonsan·12/1/2013, 6:22:26 PM·6 votes·568 views

Hello Riot. I'm not entirely sure if you read many of the posts on this board anymore, but I still post on it to hopefully add some ideas to your already vast collection of ideas. This one, however is a little off track.

Lately, I've been reading some disturbing stories about video game addiction and how some activist groups are thinking that perhaps regulating online video games is a step to curb what they view as just a different form of drug addiction.

I cannot deny, sometimes I want to do nothing else than play video games all day, and while I wouldn't necessarily argue that video games can be an addiction, I would also worry about people REGULATING how much I play video games.

That's why I'm suggesting that riot take the first step into curbing a problem. I suggest that riot add an optional feature in league of legends that allows a person to moderate how much time they spend a day/week or month playing league of legends. I suggesting adding a feature that, essentially allows oneself to ban themselves from league temporarily each day.

For example, this feature would allow a person to set a customized limit. example: No more than five games a day or no more than three hours spent on it a day. Something along those lines.

Also, perhaps adding a time filter on there, so that a person could only play between the hours of eight and eleven at night. Something along those lines.

The reason I suggest this is because I think it would really bring some interesting notoriety to riot, which is an already famous company, and might even be the first step in a chain of companies adopting any such regulations. Not only that, but that would allow video gamers to regulate how much time they spend on a game a day, and would keep the control with the player, not with a government body, which would be less concerned of personal playing of a video game, and more concerned over the broad spectrum (read: worse regulations).

For the time being, this is merely a suggestion, but I hope this idea gains enough traction that riot finally decides to implement something for the greater good of their player-base. I've always known riot to be a very down to earth company, and I've come to respect that feature of them more than anything else. I hope that someone takes the time to read this and passes it on. Until then, thank you for your time.

8 Comments

ArkRaven00012/2/2013, 2:42:13 AM3 votes

I think this is a great idea, it would certainly help us college students from being too tempted to play this game. A small sort of block would be a gentle reminder that someone should be writing a paper, not playing a game.

TaintedTaint12/1/2013, 6:44:31 PM2 votes

Windows based computers, and Xbox Live have these same features, and I myself am a parent of children old enough to play games, and I LOVE this feature. I even have a parent password where I can extend their play time if I feel they deserve it (chores and such). I GREATLY approve this message, and would love to see something like this happen.

Rhyto12/2/2013, 6:10:13 PM1 votes

I'm a high school student and this wouldn't be such a bad idea especially since this is a free to play game plus I haven't been able to play much at all due to many projects so I approve of this.

Fazuzu12/3/2013, 6:30:49 AM1 votes

doing that would only make their idea to regulate it seem more reasonable, since after all, the game makers and players would agree that it needs to be regulated with a feature like that. that's the excuse that would be used. and after that's been done, we're one step closer to sopa 2.0. and more of a need for more 'darknets'. with ISP's bending over to demands, or even volunteering sometimes at least when it comes to 'piracy', I don't want to allow anything to be gotten away with that could eventually lead to legal ISP level censorship of everything that goes through our connection. That's the end game, even if it takes another ten or even 15 or 20 years, the more we let people do with the internet, the worst it gets each time down the road. like with everything you let people get away with. People can moderate themselves, or their parents can.