Dear riot. (PBE player behavior)

Draven Idol·May 6, 2016·2 votes·423 views

When i applied for PBE (Probably 9-10 months ago) I was made to believe that only a selected amount of players are gonna be accepted, with the main focus being toxicity and player behavior.

After 10 months now, i finally found a friend that was willing to share his account with me so i could try out the new releases on PBE and holy hell.

The amount of toxic people i've seen on the PBE are times more toxic than what i've seen on the live servers in months.

I'm writing this after i finished a game where i had 4 man premade opponents (apparently korean) That all they did was spam emotes, laughs, bm, all chat verbal abuse. Stuff like "Are you still here?" "Run" "EZ" "owned bot against duo lol EZ" and all sorts of bming and negative attitude in all chat.

I wonder how people like this still hold their accounts (They weren't even testing anything knew, they ran thresh, ez, darius and hecarim) and all they did was bm, while people like me are still waiting for acceptance.

I know i'm not the best role model for a player (even though i rarely flame) but i'm pretty sure i haven't stooped that low yet.

This isn't the only time i've seen toxic people, i believe after 10 or so games on the PBE, only 1 game was toxicity free.

I'm sorry for the long rant but it's the only thing i could do after the frustrating experience i had with a server that was supposedly made to test stuff and have fun, and all i got was players that were 10 times worse than people on live.

Best regards.

4 Comments

SarutobiMay 6, 20161 votes

This is one reason why I stop using PBE. People barely use it to play/test new things unless it's a champion of skin. Hell I remember they made an announcement to test URF with the new champion and I'm pretty sure they barely even did that. People only use the PBE as a means to get free stuff. That's basically it. Also you can report these people. Some assume that because it's PBE Riot doesn't take reports seriously, but they do. If you see toxic people just do as you would normally do and report them!

ModWulf HelhammerMay 6, 20162 votes

Most of what I've done on my PBE is just testing the new stuff in a custom game against bots. Much cleaner there.

However, the other day I wanted to try out Taliyah in an actual game, so I went to blind pick....it's crazy the amount of toxicity there. Flaming, role stealing, AFKing, etc.. Now it could be because I was getting the bottom of the barrel in terms of match making, but it was still insane. Like, do people not realize that the main reason they have access is good behavior, and how strict Riot is enforcing it when access is supposed to be a reward for being good?

SarutobiMay 6, 20161 votes

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Most of what I've done on my PBE is just testing the new stuff in a custom game against bots. Much cleaner there.

However, the other day I wanted to try out Taliyah in an actual game, so I went to blind pick....it's crazy the amount of toxicity there. Flaming, role stealing, AFKing, etc.. Now it could be because I was getting the bottom of the barrel in terms of match making, but it was still insane. Like, do people not realize that the main reason they have access is good behavior, and how strict Riot is enforcing it when access is supposed to be a reward for being good?

Honestly some people just don't understand. Heck back when they had PBE locked a bunch of people complained on the forums about why they can't have access to it all because they wanted free stuff. People are just ungrateful. But like I said just report them. I would think any type of punishment on the PBE is an automatic lockout of the PBE!