New player experience must be miserable....

RAINBOW GUMDROPS·9/14/2018, 10:55:51 PM·4 votes·4,040 views

So I made a new account because I got suspended, and wanted to play in the mean time. The account is now level 7, and I've been playing Blind pick ( as it's all that is available ) I'm noticing that every single game, I get a team of new players to league, and then me. Game starts and within 5 minutes or so, and 8 deaths from my team later, the other team admits to being plat/diamond smurfs, and my team get's absolutely obliterated. Now, I personally don't care, because it isn't my main account, but my teammates on the other hand, are miserable. They end up saying 'screw this' and quitting the game. I feel like the new player experience for someone brand new to League is extremely off putting. Just my two cents.

8 Comments

R107 Games9/14/2018, 11:06:40 PM4 votes

New player experience is something riot needs to improve

MrMaqpie9/14/2018, 11:40:14 PM2 votes

I mean this isn’t a riot problem this is the player base problem only way to solve this is make it so people can’t make smurf which probably isn’t going to happen

A Fish With Legs9/15/2018, 2:23:59 AM2 votes

Yeah, I agree that the "New Player Experience" is definitely something that needs to be looked over and worked on. The game itself already has a pretty big learning curve compared to other games, but the icing on the cake that turns off new players, from what I've seen, heard, and experienced is that the community itself.

The community is easily the main culprit for why the "New Player Experience" sucks in League, with the game's mechanics being the secondary reason. The League of Legends community has a reputation of being the most toxic gaming community in all of gaming. It's filled with people who are ready and able to insult others for not playing the way they want the other player to play (even in ARAM), there are people who are ready to tell others to kill themselves in the game for making one bad player, etc.

Riot should really take a more critical stand on their community to ensure that the community is open to everyone, especially new players. They've already done a somewhat okay job at the tutorial and trying to ease new players into the game, but the one thing that they barely put any effort into improving is improving the community's behavior.

The League community has earned the reputation of being the most toxic gaming community ever, and they will always retain that reputation. From what I've seen on these forums, people who get permanently banned have very little to no resistance in making a new account, and if they dumped time and money into their permanently banned account, they probably don't care if the new account gets banned because they don't have an intimate connection with the account, they can just make another one and continue being toxic.

The New Player Experience will never get any better until the community's attitude improves.