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Will The Game Always Be This Toxic?

Drug Enthusiast·8/3/2016, 8:51:14 PM·2 votes·1,967 views

After giving into peer pressure and finally playing the game, I played a few Co-op vs AI games and won them easily. The teams were cooperative and friendly towards me, and I found it to be a nice turn of events after hearing how toxic the community was.

I decided to play against some other people to see what was up, and right off the bat, things went downhill. Someone instantly picked and locked Draven, without even calling it out, which I though was unfair to some other players. My internet decided to go out for a solid 10 minutes, and when I came back in, he relentlessly followed my around, stealing any creeps I was trying to get, whether it be lane or jungle creeps. I told him to stop taking my creeps, to which he replied "Maybe you shouldn't have DC'd, retard". The ashe decided to give her two cents as well, calling me a braindead moron for my internet going out, and the Draven told me to kill myself multiple times, and to delete my account and uninstall.

I really don't want to play this game if the community will be this toxic towards new players who just want to figure out how the game works, so to save myself some trouble, is the game always going to be this toxic, and will it get worse the more I play?

TL;DR - Toxic people bullied me in game because I was new

57 Comments

Gaxoo8/4/2016, 12:52:21 AM2 votes

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yeeeeeeeeeesssssss.

I Go Pew Pew Pew8/3/2016, 9:05:59 PM1 votes

It will be toxic as long as they continue trying to solve it the way they are.

On a side note, are you a pharmacist?

redniwediS8/3/2016, 9:14:14 PM1 votes

The game's not toxic, it simply floats along in a toxic sea known as the internet. Until internet culture changes, particularly regarding competition, League will be toxic.

Zaryelle8/3/2016, 9:52:39 PM1 votes

The generation of people playing it now are toxic in real life as well, they just hide it well.. In one of my IT classes I'm taking for an extra certification (I've already graduated, so the majority of the other people are 4-5 years younger than me) there are kids in the back watching twitch they all play LoL too and they constantly use the expressions kill yourself and salty in every day conversations.. I seriously want to punch some of them in the face, I only told 1 of them I play LoL because I would dread playing with any of them.

Whenever one of them gets a bad score on a test or something they'll say you might as well kill yourself now... funny the first time until they use it all the freaking time, hard to believe some of these people flaming in LoL are actually 18+. These kids are barely passing and all they do in class is watch Twitch and some even play LoL in class, eventually the teacher had to block Twitch from our network because he's also the admin and it is super distracting if you sit near/behind them.

I've also heard of a lot of game stores where they have LoL installed on public computers and lots of kids will gather (around ages 9-13) and play LoL and trash talk saying things like 'this Draven is terribad' out loud, and I thought it was hilarious until I actually saw it for myself in real life one day.

ItsOrval8/3/2016, 10:23:18 PM1 votes

Yes. Because when your Sivir ADC is making the same plays again and again dying each time, it will piss you off

oSEXYPLATYPUSo8/3/2016, 10:26:29 PM1 votes

as long as there are assclowns on the internet who thinks its ok to be a bunch of assclowns there will always be toxicity.

Communist Toast8/3/2016, 10:59:01 PM1 votes

I can probably easily say that the majority of low level people are high level players playing on extra accounts if they A--got banned or B--just bored.

either way most probably don't care if their extra account gets banned, so flaming is crazy at the low levels

ScorpioDK8/3/2016, 11:29:06 PM1 votes

The game has the potential to make the nicest person toxic if they give even a slight damn about winning, so yes. Some people don't play just to click around and "have fun" in the same sense you do.

So yes, every single game where competition is present will always have an element of toxicity. The developers focus on punishing people without trying to reduce the factors that make people pissed and "toxic". They have been doing that forever and its never going to work. For one thing, unless you divorce players from failings of their team and place the rank entirely on their performance, there will be angry players.

No way around it. In reality even the people crying toxic are often doing it just to get someone else in trouble. Their way of being toxic without being toxic.

I hadn't played league in a long time but boy did the games I have played show me why I left. Sometimes things are just out of your control and the matches are a massive waste of time. Very annoying. I don't care what other players say but clearly others do. I can't say I understand why they care but I care what happens in the match and that part is what pisses people off.

Going to be glad when I get the new GPU and go back to a game like rainbow six or something. btw that is a situation where its not as easy to be angry at teammates. Because its a fps and you can't see what other players are doing as much. Its also not as dependent on them to win. matches aren't as long etc. In league its a whole other story.

End of the day, you stepped into a complicated situation. Just have to realize what those people say doesn't mean anything. If they say you suck, try to get better. show them wrong.

1wolfpack8/3/2016, 9:05:13 PM1 votes

not every game will be that toxic. however this game will always have toxic players.

so you can quit or try to not be so sensitive. p.s. you can always mute ur team mates and opponents. makes life easier.

goodluck buddy

Desolas Arterius8/5/2016, 11:24:09 PM1 votes

Unfortunately, toxicity will always exist so long as people are around.

However, you don't really have to worry about it. Yes Bronze/Silver is known for crazy amounts of toxic players, but if you're having trouble dealing with them I'd suggest playing with friends who are patient and fun to play with. I myself dont play unless I'm playing with my fiance and our best friend. It's more fun that way and helps us ignore the occasional toxic players we come across.

If you don't want to play with friends, I'd suggest muting the flamers as soon as they start up. Responding gives them the satisfaction they're looking for. Don't even reply "Muted" in those cases. Just must them and carry on learning the game.

If you have a situation like the Draven case again, just do your best on your own terms and try to ignore him. Report him afterwards with an "Unsportsmanlike Behavior" report or something similar. If he normally does this then he'll be banned fairly quick.

But problem players cannot be changed until everyone uses the report function properly.

TLDR: really recommend playing with friends to curb the toxicity while you learn the game.

Nightmist Dark8/4/2016, 1:10:50 AM1 votes

As long as there are humans playing, toxicity won't ever leave.

Winterkill8/4/2016, 4:51:45 AM1 votes

Yes unfortunately it does. Riot is giving me the impression that they do not really care about quality games . . . but more quantity of games. A single player that feeds the entire game and you try to offer them helpful advice, can ruin the entire game for everyone else. This player is toxic, insults you, and just doesn't care about the game. There are many players that just que into matches to grief and create the disturbance. There are many players that just want to flame, insults, feed, attack, and not take ownership. It gets old when you have to mute every single person every game. It gets old when there is no function in the game to remove or hide chat. Riot is creating a negative environment and it feels like they are doing nothing about it.

welovegag8/4/2016, 7:44:30 AM1 votes

The game will continuously be that toxic unless rito decided to stop all the kids from playing once and for all. Tbh, i started to feel like its another cod kid rage playground now.

VoidStaresBack8/5/2016, 6:12:32 PM1 votes

Kind of. Honestly, the Draven player was probably a Tyler 1 wannabe, so he's somewhat of an anomaly.

Honestly, I've found that the best way to play league is to get a group of friends and play together. It's a lot more fun, you can play exactly as serious as you want to, and nobody's going to flame you when you mess up (the enemy team might flame you if you're kicking their asses, but that's their problem and just means you're doing fantastic XD). You said that you gave into peer pressure to play this game, why not play with some of the people who encouraged you to join in the first place?

If you don't find a group to play with, hit me up sometime and we can play a few rounds!

Ýisus8/3/2016, 11:01:27 PM

I have an even more important question. Why are Millennials so sensitive? What happens when a real life friend dies? Your fiancee cheats on you? Your parents die? Your boss tells you that you are a "_______" <---- Enter whatever derogatory term you wish. What happens when "life happens"????

If anyone can seriously get sensitive over a video game, I feel very sorry for how you will react when life hits you. because it is no longer 0's and 1's.