I need to further explain how saturated low elo is with trolling and toxicity

Silent Teammate·8/17/2018, 5:51:30 PM·13 votes·2,391 views

Here is my recent thread where I explained how I was chat banned, and I also started detailing in sequential games how game changing trolling/griefing was taking over the gameplay experience. https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/MtWnjt3R-im-being-driven-mad-by-the-rampant-trolling-and-have-been-chat-restricted

This last game is really a perfect example of what it is like MORE THAN HALF THE TIME in low elo. https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2848140899/227270231?tab=overview

Darius 0/10/0 is griefing and being abusive to his team. Afk jg camp farms.

Katarina is abusive and tells the team to kill themselves

Kayn becomes demoralized (im guessing) and afk's on fountain halfway through the game.

There is no way to combat this with new-age positivity exercises or keeping that smile on when you play. This is a gutting of the gameplay - AND PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS - it is in more than half of the games at low elo.

Riot the only way to fight this TIDAL WAVE of negativity surrounding your game is to throw man hours at it. It means a shot at your bottom line, but imo your brand has suffered the last 2 seasons and the game now more represents demoralizing endurance than strategic pastime.

13 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon8/17/2018, 5:56:36 PM1 votes

It's not in over half of them though, and I can confirm it through personal experience.

And Riot is doing what they can to fix it. The problem is that given how League itself works, there's no real way to keep toxic people out.

disregardable8/17/2018, 6:38:03 PM1 votes

and you'll forget about this game next week.

mlm olo mlm8/18/2018, 3:44:35 AM1 votes

Just got out of a nexus blitz. 3 people in a single lane. None of them buy gold income. I manage to jungle and take the free cs and a tower. They manage to go 0-10 and don't get a tower.

There is no way to save that game. Just let us leave the game.

laugh0Rcry8/22/2018, 5:51:09 AM1 votes

bumped af. 100% true what OP is saying and it's causing more toxicity to develop and no amount of pretending this isn't what the issue is, will make it go away.

Silent Teammate8/22/2018, 7:09:41 PM1 votes

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Here is my recent thread where I explained how I was chat banned, and I also started detailing in sequential games how game changing trolling/griefing was taking over the gameplay experience. https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/MtWnjt3R-im-being-driven-mad-by-the-rampant-trolling-and-have-been-chat-restricted

This last game is really a perfect example of what it is like MORE THAN HALF THE TIME in low elo. https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2848140899/227270231?tab=overview

Darius 0/10/0 is griefing and being abusive to his team. Afk jg camp farms.

Katarina is abusive and tells the team to kill themselves

Kayn becomes demoralized (im guessing) and afk's on fountain halfway through the game.

There is no way to combat this with new-age positivity exercises or keeping that smile on when you play. This is a gutting of the gameplay - AND PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS - it is in more than half of the games at low elo.

Riot the only way to fight this TIDAL WAVE of negativity surrounding your game is to throw man hours at it. It means a shot at your bottom line, but imo your brand has suffered the last 2 seasons and the game now more represents demoralizing endurance than strategic pastime.

It continues to get worse. I wish there was a lawyer that could prove that Riot inconsistently upholds it's TOS and voids/refunds all commercial transactions. I would love to get my money back and give a huge FUCK YOU to this game forever.

BIFF8/22/2018, 7:19:41 PM1 votes

Yeah this post is pretty spot on.

The low Elo win condition for season 8 is: I hope their team tilts before mine does...

Its all RNG toxicity at this point. Who has the least toxic teammates wins.

If that isnt bad enough they just opened the gates to let some of their worst offenders back in the game.

Dweeebles8/22/2018, 11:38:39 PM1 votes

It just comes down to implementing harsher punishments. The less they allow it to happen the less it will happen. That is the only real solution.