I think I'm done with this game. {Read this, seriously}

Yes, I got banned. The first two games I understand, but the last one was uncalled for. The chat logs involved little to no toxicity, and I was being bashed because I suck at this game. sorry!

Anyways, the reason why I think I'm done with this game is that RIOT is poor at dealing with toxicity. You're willing to ban someone who has given years of his time and money into this game for what? a "happy" community? It doesn't matter what you do. League of Legends is a competitive, onine game and there is no stopping someone from saying how bad his or her teammates are. I know in California you guys are a bunch of snowflakes, but are you really going to ban a player simply off of chat logs? for being a bad player? Is that how you deal with things? I find it discrediting as a finance major to ban a primary source for capital gain.

What I would like to point out is how the penalty system has been getting more sensitive. a simple ban by one or two players can give someone a chat restriction. any games after that, even if they are a month or so away, you get a ban. I remember when I was on a chat restriction for over two-hundred games! That was roughly about 3 or 4 years ago. That punishment I was given may have been a weak penalty to you, but my attitude improved after those games. Why? I saw improvement simply because I used my five available chats for notifications, such as wards, what to do, who to protect, what objectives are next, who to target, etc.. After I was off of chat restriction, I acted like I still had it after a month or two.

Moreover, That leads me to my only request. What I've noticed about league is that it seems RIOT is looking for people to ban. Players are looking for players to ban. Players who aren't at a high rank, who annoy them, who feed, etc. People would report people for stealing a scuttler! Yes, I've seen that happen plenty of times. We've also all been the player to feed a lane because of lack of communication with the jungler. We've all blamed our support or ADC for being too passive or aggressive. Shit happens! Back to my point: I think that if I choose to mute someone in game, they shouldn't be allowed to read anything I send. If I were to push a little further, I'd want to have the option to take off chat completely. The Majority of bans are from in game conversations. If you gave people the option to turn of their chat logs or to double-end mute, there would be less reports, less traffic, less toxicity, and would start to remove the stigma that LoL is the most toxic community.

I don't believe anyone should be punished for playing a game meant for competition. I don't think anyone is ever truly toxic on purpose either. it's usually provoked by bad gameplay. One comment can change the attitude of the whole game. I would know, I tend to be on both ends of it. Nobody tries to carry toxicity over to another game. People can be tilted, People can be upset to the prior game, but I'd like to see a poll of people who purposely feed at minute one of a new game.

Finally, I just want to say that League of Legends has been my game since preseason of season 4. I have spent over 90 days total playing this game (over 5 years), I have invested more than a thousand into this game, and I wish I didn't see that ending soon. I love this game, I love the nature of the competition, I don't care if someone is toxic as much because I have a life. This game isn't my life, it's a pastime, and a new game is a new mindset. Preventing toxicity isn't easy, but I think that a player should decide whether they want to communicate with a player or not. All anyone really needs in a league game is pings, and chat is merely a bonus. Let the players who want to keep chat keep it, but for players such as myself, give me the option to turn my side of chat completely.

Thank you.

P.S. I'd like to see an argument saying that it's wrong for me to turn off MY CHAT and MY ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE with players when I could just use pings.