Please Disable All-Chat in Ranked: Players Ruin Ranked Games to Play Victim

robinhhhood·5/3/2017, 7:05:37 AM·2 votes·748 views

Please Permanently Disable All Chat in Ranked Games: it serves no legitimate communicative purpose other than to facilitate psychological abuse on others by toxic players seeking to abuse the reporting system and spread lies claiming their own toxic contributions as victimization

As it stands, solo queue is legitimately unplayable.

During over 80% of my matches, Players have legitimately, flat-out stopped playing and/or, deliberately started making damaging gameplay decisions so they can deflect more blame onto others and try to gather "evidence" to report people.

Wikipedia defines this as, > Victim playing (also known as playing the victim or self-victimization) is the fabrication of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy or attention seeking. Where a person is known for regular victim playing, the person may be referred to as a professional victim

I am not making this up; this is a real tactic used by cyberbullies on this game.

I have rampantly been called toxic and/or autistic, and then campaigned to be reported for the following reasons so far:

  1. Being ganked by the enemy
  2. Having the enemy choose a counter pick
  3. Surviving a team fight
  4. Split pushing
  5. Taunting after a solo-kill
  6. Responding to a teammate
  7. Not responding to a teammate
  8. Mentioning absurd reports made by people in the past
  9. Mentioning toxic behavior
  10. Mentioning anything during a losing state of the match
  11. Defending myself against false claims
  12. Defending myself against verbal abuse

Am I missing something here because this seems like it is all completely natural parts of the game?

I enjoyed League of Legends during blind pick on the way to level 30 yet, as soon as I entered the ranked gameplay mode, I am being assaulted verbally and then reported for completely normal aspects of the game.

I don't understand why these players are deliberately sabotaging ranked matches and then trying to pass it off as themselves being victimized. I thought this was a fighting game...

Here are my proposed changes:

  1. Remove the distracting soldiers that fight in the lanes
  2. Remove gold/exp/stats
  3. Chat box now overlays entire screen with report buttons next to each avatar
  4. Game does not end until nine people select the same person to report
  5. If person reported is on your team you are deducted -20 lp and taken to a defeat screen
  6. If person reported is not on your team you are awarded +20 lp and taken to a victory screen
  7. ????

Or,

  1. Disable cross team chat forever in Ranked games and immediately squash League's culture of self-entitlement and victimization complexes.

Until then I can't see how Solo Queue is enjoyable by any self-respecting human being. I'm not even writing this for myself, as I have friends to duo with. I just think it's gross that we have to be associated with this kind of behaviour on a game-to-game basis.

Remember, playing League is not cool but, being good at League is.

6 Comments

Deep Terror Nami5/3/2017, 7:21:00 AM2 votes

If the issue is with how you are personally being affected by what's going on in all-chat, there is an option in your social settings that lets you toggle it off so that you don't have to mute the enemy. I prefer to just mute people individually as they out themselves as an annoyance, but if you want to turn off all-chat automatically you can do that too.

robinhhhood5/3/2017, 8:58:56 AM1 votes

At some point this game will be built for no one.

At some point only the few that still use this as their outlet to abuse others with self-victimization tactics will be the only benefactors of investments into this game.

I hate to say it, but SMITE is looking pretty damn good already, also the community has yet to be plagued by a swath of masochistic juveniles.