Riot is losing players, and it doesnt seem to care.

Heliosvector·Sep 29, 2017·2 votes·1,979 views

I really dont get why riot does not punish players more often. Today, and on many occasions, I play a game, and one of the players rages and then decides to give up. In this case in particular, my adc at 8 mins gets killed by the jung and is at 3/2. He then says "k im done, have fun" and proceeds to just farm in lane and then go afk and "look at snapchat". This is all in chat yet he wont get punished. Even when I have flamed on occasion, I never got any recourse, infact I got honor and an upgrade in my logo. They need to be more like Dota and have low priority que hell for people that ruin ranked games for others. I wont be playing league anymore. I cant waste an hour each time to have it ruined by one person on the team because they dont feel like continuing when they dont steamroll.

12 Comments

La Belle SauvageSep 29, 20173 votes

Based on what data? I mean I'm sure they lose players on a daily basis but do they gain more? How do you know?

HeliosvectorSep 29, 20171 votes

I never said that they dont grow in a player base. What I am saying is that they allow this sort of behavior and do little or nothing about it.

Void NargacugaSep 29, 20173 votes

If you would look at this sub-section of the boards you will notice many threads about getting banned.

So Riot does do something about toxic behavior, you just don't get a notification every single time someone you reported gets punished.

HeliosvectorSep 29, 20171 votes

Still isnt enough. A few months ago, I was intentionally an ass refusing to play and just making anivia walls or just farming not fighting. not even a 2 hour ban for me.

Void NargacugaSep 29, 20173 votes

Punishment tiers are as follows:

Ten game chat restriction
Twenty-five game chat restriction
14 day ban
Permanent ban

Trolling, hate speech, and intentional feeding are a few things that will make you skip straight to the 14 day ban.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but they are working on improving the detection system for intentionally feeding and gameplay trolling.

Kei143Sep 30, 20173 votes

Riot has some leeway for people with "bad games".

Punishment is for those that are either severely out of line toxic or for the people that consistently ruin games.

ModPeriscopeSep 29, 20173 votes

Sorry you had that experience. Maybe try playing with some friends? That's the quick solution to this.

But really, it sounds like if that player went afk, he's gonna get punished. I mean, he got tilted at that k/d, what do you think is gonna happen when he actually has a bad game?

I don't think that they "don't care" as I feel like they've made improvements to the game at the benefit of players, like the loot system and rotating game modes, for example.

General Esdeath Sep 29, 20172 votes

ok bye!

GrievousFetusSep 29, 20171 votes

Because economically player retention is less cost intensive than new player creation, and Riot is going to subsist on whales it already has.

Why do you think ban evasion is so easy? Bans are a formality. Riot is banking on pre-existing players, if they do get banned, to come back to the game and start at the level 1 grind all over again.

Kei143Sep 30, 20172 votes

I don't know how much of new accounts they are banking on, seeing they are removing the runes / mastery limitations within a month and a half.

s pola gasaJan 31, 20181 votes

got 14days ban because wrote 2 indecent words. was honored for eveything in s7.

and

getting LEAVERS and AFKers in PLATINUM ranked. even TROLLES are usuall in PLATINUM. nice system.

ModPrandineJan 31, 2018

While Necromancy may be handy (and sometimes needed) in video games, it's not the case for old forum threads. Please avoid using such magic and be mindful of how old threads are before posting.

Feel free to contact us at the Moderation Discord or at Discuss the Boards for any questions, comments or concerns about this. Thank you and have a good day.