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What I've learned from my perma ban and general LoL experience

WithDad·12/4/2018, 2:16:46 PM·2 votes·2,537 views

This is my one and only post here and is long. Just want to get it off my chest. I apologize if it sounds anything other than genuine.

I'm a 35 year old lineman. Father of two and husband to the most beautiful woman in the galaxy. I own a home, a few vehicles, dogs, 401k, etc... I'm an adult. I work my butt off and enjoyed spending time playing LoL. I owned every champion and was working towards owning all the skins I could. I never played ranked because it didn't feel as fun. Maybe 30 ranked games in 3 years. Losing ranked actually had weight I had to carry and that's not relaxing and/or fun so I played unranked.

I also ran a YouTube and twitch channel where my kids would watch me play. They're not quite old enough yet to play themselves. We'd both be on separate cameras displayed on the screen and just... bonded. They'd laugh about the big blue guy being ugly (baron), or they'd tell me about the mean girl in class and I'd tell them to try and be nice to them because there could be a reason they're mean that my kids don't know about. They'd rush to do their chores so we could make a video. They loved it. Life lessons, dad jokes, and just a fun time.

My first suspension was legitimate. I was still new to LoL and I was trolling. I got on a losing streak and said f... well, I can't curse apparently, so I said "forget it" I'll just have fun. I ordered up 6 pairs of boots with Fizz and just went around ganking people. Funny thing was, I had a really good game! This was before they nerfed assassins. I was bad, got punished, lesson learned.

The second time I was suspended was near the end. So, 3 years later. I was in a game with a premade of 3 people. They all talked sh... trash. They all talked trash the entire game. I may have responded, I don't remember, but I was actually surprised when I logged in and saw my game chat caused me to be suspended. I laughed and thought "silly LoL bot, let me send an e-mail to the LoL gods so they can fix this". But, they sided with the trash talkers. I am an adamant "look at both sides" guy and logged in many times to read the chat logs to try and find the other side but there was nothing I could understand that caused me to be banned. I was fairly angry. I was on a stay at home vacation and just wanted to relax with no looming house work to be done. So...

My 3rd and final ban came only a week or so after the last. I was getting flamed again. I kept my mouth shut on the chat for most my games. I even googled a way to disable chat but muting everyone every game was tedious and I eventually stopped. We were losing and even though I was leading in deaths, I still had a fair amount, as did we all. However, I was called a... not sure if I can say what I was called but I was called a bunch of names. I did respond. I 'lol'd and asked how I was "bad name" and then was met with more cursing and name calling. Literally, the next game, permaban.

Lessons from League of Legends

_1. The game is toxic _ From the very beginning, "blind", it breeds anger. You have to call your lane before you can play and many people don't care, they still go where they want. All the way to ranked, where people will bully you and sling insults left and right. I found I was generally in a bad mood after I played this game. But it's like crack, you want to keep playing to chase the high of winning but when you lose, anger.

2. Don't speak You can literally be banned for anything said, and I don't use the word "literally" in any other way than Webster defined it. If possible, don't use the game chat. Don't even read the game chat (see 1).

3. Save your money I've spent thousands over the past 3 years on skins and champions that I have zero access to. Donate it to a good fund. My dad died of lymphoma he got from Agent Orange in Vietnam so I'll shamelessly plug Lymphoma and the NVF. You can also stick it in a savings account or spend it on friends and family.

4. Find another game There are dozens of similar games and millions of other games. If you find yourself getting angry often, log off and play something else. You'll find that people in other games can be a lot more friendly and mature than LoL. I've had complete strangers online spend 2 hours hanging out, donating, and helping me start up a new game. I was in awe at the level of friendliness.

5. Be nice Everywhere. The world is hateful. The news, the media, etc... It doesn't have to be in our games too. Just be friendly.

With that, I bid thee farewell. Good luck to all the noobs, platinums, and in-betweens!

28 Comments

Kei14312/4/2018, 3:02:25 PM7 votes

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I am an adamant "look at both sides" guy and logged in many times to read the chat logs to try and find the other side but there was nothing I could understand that caused me to be banned.

Let's have you look at understanding the system a bit more.

The behavioral system doesn't look at who is more at fault. If both players were arguing, then both would be at fault.

Typically, the system doesn't punished based on one game alone. Infact it looks at your behavioral history and see that you have a consistent history of acting out, and would punish you based on the many games you acted out based on your history.

The only exception to that is when you use hate speech or encourage others to harm themselves. That stuff isn't cool and if you've been punished for hate speech, then ... shame on you and I have no sympathy for you.

With that, I bid thee farewell. Good luck to all the noobs, platinums, and in-betweens!

But all that doesn't matter. If you choose to leave, then enjoy your future endeavors.

Jo0o12/4/2018, 3:22:31 PM4 votes

2 is only true if you frequently ignore 5. I chat constantly and have never had so much as a restriction.

Kaioko12/4/2018, 3:39:08 PM4 votes

I'm just going to focus on your points instead of arguing with the rest of your post which I highly disagree with:

1.) The game is toxic to some extent this much is true and that's unfortunately the result of it being a competitive game where your individual performance does not guarantee you a win. I would argue though that it is not ALWAYS toxic. I would also add that people should almost never play blind pick anymore and instead stick to draft which limits the role calling issues.

2.) I've used the in game chat function quite liberally for the past 8 years and have never receive a single punishment. You should not interact with toxic players this much is true, but talking with the rest of your team is perfectly fine. I personally find interacting with those being toxic so below me that I never have the urge, but if you cannot control yourself then you should mute them accordingly.

3.) Spend your money however you want if that's what makes you happy and you're being responsible. Dropping $20 for a skin every now and then when you spend so many hours on the game is really not that harmful.

4.) This is correct. There's no need to play 10 games of League in a row which honestly borderline unhealthy. While you can find another game you should focus on just doing something other than video games.

5.) Agreed

ModPeriscope12/4/2018, 3:58:15 PM3 votes

  1. I feel it only takes 1 or 2 negative players to give the perception that everyone in the match was toxic.

  2. That's simply not true. I'm sorry you didn't come here earlier seeking clarity on your punishment, but players usually get banned for consistent trends of insulting other players. I would say that if you had a punishment 1 week after a 2-week suspension, then your punishment came because it showed a lack of reform immediately after coming off a 2-week.

AscendingHope12/4/2018, 2:25:14 PM2 votes

Well at least you learned something :)

R107 Games12/4/2018, 2:32:15 PM2 votes

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husband to the most beautiful woman in the galaxy.

Fake news unless she looks like this: RekSai

2. Don't speak You can literally be banned for anything said, and I don't use the word "literally" in any other way than Webster defined it. If possible, don't use the game chat. Don't even read the game chat (see 1).

Kind of true because of this current strict chat moderation. anything that can be seen as negative could be grounds for a chat restriction or ban. And I mean even saying things like "i think we lost" "this lane is boring" "game is probably over" "stop dying"-- anything that can be seen as negative. Its truly tragic that riot has devolved the system to this.

3. Save your money I've spent thousands over the past 3 years on skins and champions that I have zero access to. Donate it to a good fund. My dad died of lymphoma he got from Agent Orange in Vietnam so I'll shamelessly plug Lymphoma and the NVF. You can also stick it in a savings account or spend it on friends and family.

I only agree to this on players that get banned often and make new accounts, or players that spend their money too casually(like buying 10 emotes or skins for champions they rarely play). Stop giving riot money for no reason.

4. Find another game There are dozens of similar games and millions of other games. If you find yourself getting angry often, log off and play something else. You'll find that people in other games can be a lot more friendly and mature than LoL. I've had complete strangers online spend 2 hours hanging out, donating, and helping me start up a new game. I was in awe at the level of friendliness.

Unfortunately there is no other game that has the same feel of League. I only play this game for now.

Hethalean12/4/2018, 2:39:18 PM1 votes

I'll just start off by I think you're off base on quite frankly most of what you're saying here to some degree or another, but I don't think it'll be fruitful to engage on that. However, I am responding for below for you and for others.

You mentioned you googled disabling chat. I'm not sure how you didn't find it / what term you searched, but it's pretty much the first result in google when you type "disable league chat".

Find your Config file in League Folder (Windows it's likely C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Config), there is a file called PersistedSettings.json (or just PersistedSettings if you don't have Show Common File Extensions on), ctrl+F after opening in a program like Notepad (preferable Notepad++ imo) to search for ChatScale. It'll be in the "name": "HUD" section, and turn it to -100. It should resemble below.

{ "name": "ChatScale", "value": "-100", }

This turns your chat window into a dot that you cannot see.

TheProfezzor12/4/2018, 6:44:07 PM1 votes

You went around trolling in game as fizz with only boots....umm....how old are you?

i agree that the game can be toxic....but I believe that is due to matchmaking being broken and not putting similar skilled players together. I have put a bunch of money into this game as well. At least a G, easy. If i get banned I won't come back. The difference is I can admit that I tend to flame when someone is playing disgustingly bad. It's not an excuse. It's my reaction, obviously not positive, I'm working on it, but it is what it is. I will deal with the ban if it comes.

Telephone Booth12/5/2018, 4:11:08 AM1 votes

Well the lessons you learned are weird. Ive never had a punishment and i disagree with a lot of what you said, particulary the exaggerations about what you can be banned for. If those things were true, I wouldve been banned long ago. i think you need to take a look back and maybe think a bit deeper about the reasons for your ban. Youll probably find its a bit more reasonable than you seem to think. Like you seem to think that you cant even fucking say fucking swear fucking words. Your ideas are very misleading and I wish people wouldnt just take it as fact, but sadly many will.