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Riot is the cause of all negativity in this game.

Morgana Ultimus·12/17/2018, 9:37:37 PM·8 votes·2,389 views

Riot games has had a problem with negativity since its inception. It seems to be the only game on the internet with such a problem. Yet the company fails to do any introspection.

Let's take a look at this for example. You can see in this match history a record number of losses in a row. Every single game I'm playing fairly well and my teammates get destroyed. Most of the players in these games are plat and diamond. I'm plat on my main account as well. This should be fairly decent MMR right?

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=morgana+ultimus

Wrong. 10 games of absolutely misery. Kids running it down mid. Kids not trying. Kids afking. You know, the classic League of Legends experience.

Let's assume for the sake of argument I'm the worst player in the world. Why does it take 10 games of miserable matches to get me into the "proper" mmr? Why is it acceptable for Riot's system to give me 10 absolutely miserable losses in a row?

Oh, but rest assured it is expected that despite being fucked in the ass by Riot's Matchmaking system (or lack of one) that you should have a positive attitude at all times! What a great game!

This how a normal person's attitude goes:

First loss: Ehh it happens. Maybe I could have helped bot a little more.

Second loss: some hard matches today I guess. I'm unlucky.

Third loss: Jesus what's going on today.

Fourth loss: What the actual fuck

Fifth loss: HERE WE GO AGAIN

Sixth loss: Why the fuck am I being punished by this dog shit company?

Seventh loss: HOLY SHIT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THIS COMPANY

Eighth loss: I don't even give a fuck anymore.

Ninth loss: w/e I'm afk this is a waste of my fucking time.

I'll admit this is pretty rare. I can't remember the last time I've had this many losses in a row. You know what else is rare? Me losing my patience. So if Riot games clearly fucks up hard nothing happens. If I lose my patience in one game out of hundreds I get some kind of punishment. Is it any wonder there's negativity on League of Legends? You provide a immensely negative experience for your players and then expect them to be happy.

There is literally no excuse for a 10 year old game to be sending people on 10 game losing streaks and when it does happen it's time for Riot to admit they've fucked up. There is a reason there is literally no other gaming company on the entire planet with negativity issues. It's time for some introspection.

20 Comments

Hotarµ12/17/2018, 9:45:52 PM10 votes

Third loss: Jesus what's going on today. Fourth loss: What the actual fuck

This is the point at which most people would take a break and try to cool off.

Eighth loss: I don't even give a fuck anymore. Ninth loss: w/e I'm afk this is a waste of my fucking time.

Again, take a break or change your mentality. The game isn't intentionally matching you with people who AFK, this isn't some conspiracy that all matches are designed to keep you at low ELOs.

Even so, when matched with feeders, AFKers, or ragers, you have no excuse to become toxic like them and make the situation even worse for the other players like yourself who want good games.

Don't fight fire with fire and you won't get burned.

CharDeeMcDenniz12/17/2018, 9:42:35 PM8 votes

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there is literally no other gaming company on the entire planet with negativity issues.

aaaaannnnndddd you lost me, this is just a crazy statement

KVbqbFsC8e12/17/2018, 9:47:15 PM6 votes

This seems like a massive overreaction considering those games are normals and not even Ranked.

Kei14312/17/2018, 10:30:37 PM4 votes

Probably by the 5th game you got so tilted that you can't make good decisions anymore.

Take a break my friend. It'll freshen you up so you can play at optimal levels again.

DrCyanide12/17/2018, 9:59:33 PM4 votes

Let's assume for the sake of argument I'm the worst player in the world. Why does it take 10 games of miserable matches to get me into the "proper" mmr? Why is it acceptable for Riot's system to give me 10 absolutely miserable losses in a row?

Looking at your OP.GG it looks like you had a 7 game win streak which was followed by a 9 game losing streak. I'm guessing the MMR system saw your meteoric rise and was like "OK, there's no way this guy is this good... is there?" and then proceeded to start making the matches harder for you to see if you actually were that good. MMR thinks it made a mistake which lead to the 7 game wins streak, so now it's trying to correct for that mistake. If it wasn't a mistaken, then the system would expect you to win.

Someone who knows about MMR and Elo more than I can chime in here if I've mixed something up.

PresBushDid71112/17/2018, 10:49:49 PM3 votes

Aye, Riot specifically has it out for you. That can be the only logical conclusion.

IanSilang12/18/2018, 3:31:06 AM3 votes

You should be playing ranked games if you want people to actually play to their actual rank because ranks don't matter in normals. Normals are usually to "test a champion's limits" (literally looks but isn't inting). Also, sometimes you are not even doing well in these games and op.gg puts your influence as 10th or last.

JerzeyDevil12/17/2018, 10:38:44 PM2 votes

Couldn't agree more OP. Scumbag and hypocritical company to put it nicely.

Telephone Booth12/18/2018, 12:47:09 AM1 votes

Just such a weird mindset imo to lose matches and then blame the game creators lol. Why are you mad at Riot? You think theyre matching you with people they KNOW will lose? How? What kind of algorithm predicts that kind of shit? Its not like your allies lose all their games, otherwise they wouldnt be in fuckin plat. So you think they grabbed your account specifically and said okay lets give this guy some mismatched teams so we can even out his win rate? I dont know... just seems like misdirected hostility.