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My latest suspension and my confusion on why I should even bother to be nicer

Great Muta·8/17/2016, 5:02:13 PM·2 votes·960 views

So, had my issues with toxicity last season. Asked riot if they could chat restrict me, they refused and there's no way to disable chat, because despite being the 5% of most toxic players in the game, it's still important that I have chat for some reason. I'm so toxic that I need to be able to chat. Go figure.

This season comes, I use DQ only and beat restriction. As usual, through blind pick games, I get in trouble again after a night of 3 troll supports in a row in blind pick. Took my 5-10 chat restriction as usual then I beat it. Again, more trolls. No loot even after restriction is completed because it is important to punish people post-humourously. A 25 game restriction. I beat it in 3 days, but the loot restriction goes on and on endlessly. I actually tried hard to be really nice, but people would do stuff that would cost me games and I let people have it.

Again, I have 5-10 games of being pretty decent by my standards. Could have been nicer sure, but I think I did okay for my standards.

Today, I had a really bad game. 0-6. We had a Sivir/Thresh combo that was so cancer. I'd go for one, the other would heal and they'd just keep repeating it. After 0-5, enemy Zed MIA's and nails me with no call made. I ask why no call was made. I just say fuck it, I'm done. I've lost and I'm just getting mad. Yasuo then of course gets on me, saying "I'm watching your lane, you suck". I ask him why he's watching me instead of playing and there's no answer. The whole team joins in to rip me apart and I just start farming until I die again and again.

At this point: The team won't quit, so the game can't end.

I'm already guaranteed at least 2 reports.

I don't want to play. 2 people on the team are pandering for reports, so why would I want to help them? The other team joins in on it as well, so I have at least 4 people abusing me.

I can't leave or I get leaverbustered.

If I feed, which I ended up doing, I'd get reported for feeding.

If I play, I help the people who are trying to get me suspended.

Why would I want to play?

The game ends, I say hey, time to move on, and I get suspended in champ select for the next game. I then immediately log into my other account and can play and still get loot. My chat log for the suspension only contains chat from this game, no others.

So my account suspension ends in 2 weeks. Here is the situation. I have 2 other accounts. I've hit my ranked goal. I have no chance of getting loot this season. I am uncomfortable with the current meta and the champ I really like, Shyvanna, is an absolute mess. In fact, it depresses me that she isn't as good anymore.

Why should I bother being nicer? One bad game means no loot. Ending restrictions still means no loot. I don't think the game is fun and even though I hit my goal ranked wise, I'm really not very good at the game. I don't think I can get a border at this point, which is all I really wanted. There is no reason for me to be nicer. One game is all it takes and anytime I've ever said or did something nice for someone, I've immediately regretted it.

And to anyone who says , "tot getting loot isn't a punishment it's just not getting a reward" - To me it is. I did my time and then I had to do more time.

65 Comments

elduris8/17/2016, 5:17:49 PM8 votes

[{quoted}](name=Great Muta,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=2kRQxQ52,comment-id=,timestamp=2016-08-17T17:02:13.443+0000) Why should I bother being nicer?

Because hopefully you are a reasonable human being that understands being rude to people gets you nowhere. If you have a problem with a person you're playing with, there's absolutely no reason to go in chat and berate them. Not everyone is going to have your same mindset or way of thinking and the sooner you understand that, the better.

If you don't want to play the game anymore, that's totally your choice. But don't drag other people down because you aren't having a good time.

Jo0o8/17/2016, 5:21:27 PM5 votes

I don't get the central question you've posed. Why bother being nicer? Because, if you were, you wouldn't be punished so much. Was that not obvious?

It's baffling to me that you can acknowledge that you have a "problem with toxicity", yet continue to engage in it. This is a VIDEO GAME. You don't need to take it upon yourself to punish others for their failure to perform to your standards, and if somebody else is giving you a hard time, you just need to ignore/mute them.

Riot shouldn't need to preemptively chat restrict you for you to figure out how to behave. Do you scream at people ahead of you in line at Starbucks when they take too long to order? Do you follow folks for miles on the highway while honking when they drive too slowly or cut you off?

A big part of maturity in life and in League is recognizing what matters and what doesn't, and letting the latter go. You presented us with a fairly long post detailing your thought process during a bad game, but NONE OF IT REALLY MATTERS. You had a bad game. You were going to lose. That's going to account for, on average, 50% of your experience in this game. You needed to accept that and move on. You failed to do so, and now are punished. Try handling your frustrations differently next time.

redniwediS8/17/2016, 5:14:37 PM3 votes

If you do not naturally understand why you should be nice to other people there are no amount of words that can explain it to you. I'm not saying there are no words that cannot convince you to do it, I'm saying you won't be able to understand it. It's not a problem with you or anything, it's just that we would only be able to show you instances where being nice helps you out, and you would be able to shoot them down with other examples every single time. You've made up your mind already, and until you change that there's no person in the world that can make you understand.

If you want to understand you're going to have to do some thinking on your own.

Randomonium8/17/2016, 6:25:45 PM2 votes

Well, I'd hope the threat of your account getting permanently banned would be motivation enough. After a 14 day ban the next punishment you receive is a permanent ban.

If you don't like people in game then why talk to them? Honestly I'd just /mute all at the beginning of the game and play like it's a single player game. Pings are the only communication you need.

Leaving a game should never be tolerated or people would just quit whenever they had a bad landing phase or when they wanted to troll someone. The only way I could see allowing leaves would be to cause the leaving player to receive no IP for the game and still lose LP but the rest of his team would not lose any LP.