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

robinhhhood··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 Nami2 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.

robinhhhood1 votes

It's not just me personally, I have observed several cases of junglers getting harassed by duo partners trying to fabricate any piece of gameplay as a reportable offense.

Mind you that the players who were doing the accusing were actually the toxic ones, yet the outcome was reports on the innocent jungler. Muting was not the solution because, the jungler would not have been able to defend himself against false claims and blindly received reports.

If someone is not familiar with the pattern of victim playing, and can corroborate the jungler, then the duo is free to verbally abuse them and justify their ranked loss by falsely reporting their jungler.

Too many players are willing to sacrifice LP for a delusional report against a rando. If we take away their ability to campaign for reports, then it will cut them off at the source.

robinhhhood1 votes

It is observable even in the Diamond tier. During pro games, that I spectate on Twitch.TV, Diamond-Tier players will give up matches early and surrender at 20 minutes, all so they can blame and report a teammate for any reachable contributing factor.

Example: Diamond Teemo Stream

Case: Players deliberately force plays from behind and, when it fails they lash out at the Teemo streamer, call gg, call for reports

scazzman1 votes

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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.

in all honesty. the OP is right, allchat needs to go. at the VERY LEAST for ranked. there is a reason smite. hon, dota, and hots ALL don't allow you to communicate with the enemy team. in league, allchat in my experience consists of 50% "report player x" about 20% of these is a troll lying trying to get someone in trouble. 25% BMing the enemy team 20% flaming 10% trolls assisting the enemy team 5% actual friendly conversation

its not worth keeping around for that little 5%

scazzman1 votes

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in all honesty. the OP is right, allchat needs to go. at the VERY LEAST for ranked. there is a reason smite. hon, dota, and hots ALL don't allow you to communicate with the enemy team. in league, allchat in my experience consists of 50% "report player x" about 20% of these is a troll lying trying to get someone in trouble. 25% BMing the enemy team 20% flaming 10% trolls assisting the enemy team 5% actual friendly conversation

its not worth keeping around for that little 5%

im honestly not opposed to riot getting rid of chat altogether, pings are enough, and if riot wants to club penguin us to death. they might as well go the whole nine yards

robinhhhood1 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.

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