PSA: This isn't WoW, Warframe, or TERA

Important: If you don't play other competitive games, don't comment. Don't vote. This is for discussion between players who actually know what it's like in different games-- not players who are new to competitions or play nothing PvP besides League.

Just to list a few games where players have incentive to be polite to each other, and have little reason to be mad at anyone.

This is a competitive Player vs. Player game. Riot doesn't seem to understand that concept in regards to player interaction. They want to baby anyone with glass bones and paper skin as if the experience this game offers were the same as a Player vs. AI game. It's not.

Here, whether you win or lose can be decided by things other players do. And you can't redo a match. The interactions that coincide with that cannot be expected to match games that have no such hindrances to solo play.

There's a mute button for a reason. This isn't a game where some level 70 players is going to hand you his leftovers from 60 levels ago out of the kindness of his heart. It's a game where, like any other competitive game, a high ranked player will laugh in your face to make himself feel better about wasting time. Unless he's threatening you, your mother, your race, your religion, or your sex

--- don't bother reporting. All that does is reduce the number of paying customers keeping this company in business.

**Important: No, I've never been punished for "verbal abuse" or "harassment." I got Lord Mordekaiser from one free gift from Riot and Karma from the other. But it's incredibly unnerving how little Riot cares about players, to force them out of the game just for talking the way their type of game makes people talk. While players who ruin matches intentionally with their play go unpunished.