Players toxicity is getting insane nowadays...
I feel like I get 2+ persons toxic from either my teams or enemy team every game... Riot is slacking on punishing people it seems..
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Utilize the mute feature, it's quite simple
people are only punished if you report
also the majority of humans are trash talkers/bad people so its impossible to get rid of them all despite banning tons.
The toxicity stems from simple Gambler's Fallacy. People put so much in and get very little in return, but every now and then, they will get a win that means a little something and it fuels the urge to continue playing. The problem with this is that the ranked system punishes extended playing for the vast majority of players. If the game had a ranked system similar to Hearthstone, much more of the player base would be in their correct ranks, either higher or lower.
Instead, you can be Bronze 3, watch a youtube video and get some tips, play a little better, win maybe 3-4 games in a row, and BAM. Now the game thinks you're smurfing and suddenly, rather than playing with Bronze 3 ish players, you're playing with Silver 3. You aren't as good as they are yet, you just happened to win a few games, and now you are being punished for playing better. You go on a lose streak because you aren't as good as they are, which affects your MMR much faster and much harder than a few wins, and now you are playing with Iron 1/ Bronze 4. Aka elo hell. It happens at all ranks and skill levels. That loss affects you psychologically. You've put so much time in and earned nothing. In fact, you've lost something. You have to make it up. AKA Gambler's Fallacy.
You keep playing and over the years you get more and more toxic. Even as you improve and climb. You become salty and bitter because of the adversity the game throws at you. Next thing you know, you get banned. You stop playing for a few months but, one lonely day, you return out of boredom. You level to 30, or maybe you already had a smurf that was there, and you do your placements. Wait, whats this, the game is easier? You placed higher than you were before? After all those years? You realize your MMR was destroyed so bad from just a small circumstance of events like winning a few games in a row and then losing to better players.
Shit, now you're Gold after just 10 placement games. It felt so easy. You got rewarded a little. Your addiction comes roaring back. Rinse and repeat. This is what Riot wants because it keeps you coming back. Hearthstone has to release fancy adventures, new sets of hundreds of cards, implement multiple ways to play the game etc just to keep people coming back because people achieve their real ranks in a matter of days rather than months or years like League. They have to "reset" ranks every month just because good players are able to climb so quickly.
If Riot had this for League, well, there probably wouldn't even be a player base because it wouldn't capture their attention well enough. So, Riot does what the Pharmaceutical companies did in the mid 2000s and get everyone addicted - in that case to opioid medications - but now people are catching on, legislation is passed, and the problem will begin to subside as it is counteracted. But, what is the counteraction to League's rank system? It isn't inherently unethical or a big deal, so nobody cares other than the player base. The only solution is to either stop playing ranked or play by their rules.
Maybe it's just bad luck.
For example, I encounter very few trolls in my game (apart from toxic people). But then, one day, in every single game I played there was someone obviously trolling or inting.
It's been a week now, and it hasn't happened again.
And same, sometimes I'll see toxic people for 10 games in a row. And then, in the next 10 games, nobody flames, no matter how poorly me or a teammate does.
But then again, I am still new to the game, so I can't tell if people were less toxic in the previous seasons for instance.
But anyway, you know what everybody says : just mute at the first sign of toxicity, and if it really bothers you a lot just /mute all when the game starts.
Thats because the problem isn't punishment. Punishment is only applied to chat, not play. Instead of the other way around.
I couldn't give less of a fuck if someone flames. I have a mute button.
However I care a LOT if they are intentionally/unintentionally costing us the game.
Some will say 'its just a game', I agree, but go play normals if you want to fuck around.
Player sensitivity is a plague these days. Everyone needs to be lobotomized for you people to be fully satisfied?
Agree, i got my account banned. due to this influx of toxic behavior and honestly i feel it was probably for the best.
I've played well since better till about yesterday , and i've noticed and even posted several times that the community has become more and more toxic, and a lot of it was due to riots recent system adjustment in season 8 where they took out the old quint system
This new system makes it super easy for people to make smurf accounts that are used for massive trolling ( throw away accounts) are a real issue that riot seems to not take into account to the recent rise of toxicity. Because now players purposely have throw away accounts to troll , with out any threat to their main accounts. How many accounts do you see suddenly show up games that run it down a lane, or int just rage quit and afk out. only to after game info search and see them with a mastery and lvl lower then 30 .
Yea after awhile they get banned but after how many games? 10,20 , 50? games? how many games do they ruin for others? or get others to get penalized because they fell for this trap of purposely toxic player?
When you try to bring this up with riot, riot just says " there is nothing we can do, but we will look into the chat and see what the other players did" but we know they don't this lets the toxic players get what they wanted and get away with it.
if by chance riot does ban them after so many games, those players will just decide to make a new account spend a week lvling it back up and bam . back to trolling with no real punishment handed out.
That’s weird my games are the exact opposite and are toxic free