Programmers: FIX your BROKEN GAME with ONE BUTTON

IndianBilly··2 votes·1,096 views

SO tired of being ranked on a point system in which we are PUNISHED for other player's actions... i.e... AFK, no map awareness, refusal to play a role, no teamwork, etc...

Why is it an insistent punishment to rank players in a manner in which our game-play cannot outweigh that of ONE derogatory player on the team? IS THERE ANY DESIRE TO FIX THIS BROKEN SYSTEM - OR JUST CONTINUE ON WITH THE SAME CRAPPY EXPERIENCE WHEN 98% GAMES HAVE AN AFKER IN THEM?

So tired of the "report" screen in which very little is done- actions are punished OCCASIONALLY but not for any length to make it CORRECTIVE. You can boast all you want about how "the tribunal" corrects so many actions of others-- we ALL KNOW IT IS BS.

It is 2016 now, why do your programmers not add ONE SIMPLE BUTTON TO FIX THIS GAME ONCE AND FOR ALL?

On your "report"/stat screen- why not add one more little button next to each player's name. Instead of people "reporting" to an obviously automated system that does NOTHING UNLESS YOU TYPE THE CORRECT WORDS IN THE REPORT, simply give each player the option to fix this game, FOR THEMSELVES ONCE AND FOR ALL.

The button simply says: "Do NOT MATCH ME with THIS PLAYER EVER AGAIN." This would IMMEDIATELY start weeding out the problem players by not matching the offending player WITH the player that clicked the button. If this results in longer queue times, so be it. Everyone would feel better knowing that the guy that just said "ADC OR FEED" will NEVER be matched up with them again. IT will result in longer queue times for BOTH Players- but the constantly offending player will have a list of people that will not match with them ever again that is INFINITELY longer than a "non-offending" player. This one little simple button would have your game COMPLETELY fixed within 30 days. The bad toxic players would no longer be able to get a queue. I would gladly wait 3 minutes or even 6 minutes for a game if I know for a fact that I will not be running into any toxic players I have previously screened out of match-making.

There is honestly NO REASON that this button does not already exist- unless you are simply too scared to admit that there is so many toxic players on here that you are trying to protect them; Are they simply the MAJORITY of your player base?

26 Comments

ModUlanopo12 votes

People would abuse this to wreck matchmaking.

IndianBilly1 votes

Please explain how? If MILLIONS OF people play this game- how would removing 5 wreck matchmaking? For that matter, please explain how removing 1000 over the course of 1 year would wreck matchmaking....

ModUlanopo8 votes

Because math. Not only could it be used to prevent yourself from being matched with people you can't beat, it would slow down matchmaking. If all ten players have 1,000 people they can't be matched with, that's 10,000 people who have been excluded. Yeah, they could still assemble a game, but that's a ton of checking, which takes time.

frigginmurlocs1 votes

You seem to be under the assumption that people would only use this on players that AFK,whenin reality, players would use this to avoid being matched with anyone that does poorly, skewing the odds to be in favor of them recieving more skilled teammates

DeynaTaggerung1 votes

Also people could chose to not play against good players so they wouldn't get rekt

IndianBilly1 votes

Everyone that has commented so far seems to have this fairy-tale idea that MMR would get wrecked. IT IS NOT AS SENSITIVE AS YOU THINK IT IS. IF SOMEONE IS BLOCKED- IT WOULD JUST FIND ANOTHER PLAYER OF THE SAME CALIBER. QUIT ACTING LIKE THIS PIECE OF SHIT MATCH MAKING SYSTEM IS ADVANCED ENOUGH TO RUN THE WORLD> GET A CLUE.

Twiggles6 votes

98% OF GAMES HAVE AN AFKER IN THEM

This statistic stinks like crap. Probably because you just pulled it out of your ass.

However, I like the idea of a 'do not match me with this player' option. I think the ignore list should be made to do that already, to be honest.

Rebellions3 votes

98% of games have an afker

Where the fuck did you learn statistics? out of 20 games in the past 7 days I had an AFK in ONE of them, that is 5% of my games, and in reality, it hardly ever happens that 20th game either. In my experience someone AFK's for one of three reasons (generally speaking)

  1. They're a very sore loser and they now perceive the game to be a complete waste of time.
  2. they have poor internet and it shorted out
  3. Their team treats them worse than their own garbage for not performing to whatever standards they had set in their head.

If you are experiencing an unusually high number of AFKs in your games I would look to your own behavior first because you really cannot be surprised when you repeatedly tell someone to go hang themselves and they just quit the game because they're just not dealing with your bullshit today.

Now that is not saying the person who afk'd is in the right, far from it. However it also does not make you right and justify whatever you told them to make said person quit to begin with.

Now why am I being accusatory here? Because it's blisteringly obvious that you typed this up in a fit of rage and it gives a very poor impression of how you normally are. I would suggest calming the fuck down and then either making a new post or editing this one.

It is really funny how everyone who I've ever heard scream about how many of their games have trolls in them normally turn out to be either toxic or just be willfully blind to their own lack of ability at the game.

IndianBilly1 votes

I guarantee you if you did not have an afker on your team- the other team did. Did you keep track of that statistic?

Rebellions1 votes

Ok taking that into account, that brings it up to 3/20 games, changing it to 15% of all games. Point being, it happens very rarely unless you are one of those people who constantly harass your teammates, then yes it would be so much higher than 15% for you personally because nobody wants to play with a dickhead. By the way, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt by saying you wrote this up in a fit of rage, if this is you when your calm and how you take someone disagreeing with your points, it only reinforces my speculation that you are indeed a prick to people in game.

IndianBilly1 votes

If you only have 3/20 games in which there was ONE afker- then this is exactly why riot's ranking system is bullshit. I have an afker in AT MINIMUM EVERY OTHER GAME- the other games there is ALWAYS ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE. You aren't being very honest- AFK is a MASSIVE problem, unless of course- I repeatedly have such bad luck in groups? HARDLY THINK SO... NEXT.

Rebellions1 votes

Luck has nothing to do with it. As I have stated several times, if you are one of those people who are overly negative and a complete jackass to everyone around you, they are not going to stay and play with you. Sure it's against the rules to do it, but if everyone gets on each others case all the time because of that one fucking guy who starts shit the second a game doesn't look like it's going to be a complete roflstomp there are plenty of people who will just quit playing because that one guy made the match stop being fun and start being one of the most stressful endeavors of their life. If this is truly how you act when you are calm as you claim you are then guess what? You not realizing you are a toxic person, doesn't make you any less of a toxic person. It really was 3/20 games and guess what, I've played around 8 more games since my last comment. Not. A. Single. AFK. In ANY of those ten. Your dealing in absolutes using words such as "Always" is far-fetched at best, and utter lunacy at worst.

You are attacking everybody who comes here with a differing opinion. You want less AFK's in your game, rather than go crying to daddy Riot to fix it for you, why don't you just start being nice to people in game instead. You'll find they leave far less if you aren't an asshole.

God I just can't seem to keep my accusations in check but the empirical evidence from everything I've heard thus far towards you not being a very pleasant individual to deal with is too staggering to discount.

IndianBilly1 votes

It has nothing to do with my being an asshole. You're quite egotistical for writing that- or just a general asshole yourself. Bronze CONSTANTLY get afkers- they by starting items and they go afk. It just happened again and we lost TWENTY POINTS- AS IF IT WERE OUR FAULT FOR LOSING.

You should have all of your facts together- if you INSIST that Bronze is such a great place to play then go down there. Work your way back up. Don't whine ONCE about an afker. I know it can't be done. Just like your post, done.

Zarnotox2 votes

Well let's see, LoL has 27 million players every day (http://www.riotgames.com/our-games) that means every day there are at least 2.7 million games played.

now I'll assume you meant 9.8% of the games has an afk'er, this results in at least 270.000 afk'ers.

Now before your "NEVER MATCH ME WITH THIS PLAYER AGAIN" has any noticeable effect you would have to.. let's say 1/3?..of those afk'ers "buttoned" this means you still have to play 90.000 games.

Let's say every game takes 1 hour to play, that are 90.000 hours needed to get your result, and let's assume you play 24/24 7/7, then you will need 90000/24 (=3750) days to "fix" league of legends.

Good luck summoner!

IndianBilly1 votes

That's exactly my point- it wouldn't fix it for the person clicking the button- it would fix it for the person having the button clicked AGAINST them... thank you for making my point exactly!

XLC2 votes

Also, programmer here (not for riot mind you), but a system to do this would be hard to do without some unwanted repercussions

This is honestly like adding a second matchmaking system. This can have the following effects.

  • Increase in time between matches.
  • Probable increase in server lag (depends on how it's made)
  • Constant abuse from players (Oh please, as if people won't use this just to take away every other 'good' player.)
IndianBilly1 votes

increase in match times is totally fine. If people do not want to have a wait, then don't use the button. That simple. It would not be an abuse by taking away bad players- for each bad player that is taken away, the system would simply match you with the same caliber of player, just not that specific one.

RyotProfanity1 votes

This is the best suggestion I've ever read, but I know that it won't be applied.

DeynaTaggerung1 votes

The thing is, I've hardly ever been matched with the same person twice. It really doesn't happen all that often since there's so many players queuing up. All it would do would identify players people wouldn't want to play with again, which is what the report button does anyways(I'm not even going to bother with your belief that doesn't work, it does).

IndianBilly1 votes

The reporting system doesn't work that way. I have played with the same guy 8 times in the last week- and have reported him every time. So don't pretend to know something about the report button that isn't true when I have experienced it first-hand. Unless of course, the report button is broken just for me- like so many of the other issues? I think it comes down to the fact that people with intelligence do not play this unbalanced, crappy game. Good luck to you!

DeynaTaggerung1 votes

Oh I know the report button doesn't stop you from being matched up with the same person twice. However your system of having people you can't play with ever again would be very cluttered and mostly unnecessarily

DeynaTaggerung1 votes

Oh I know the report button doesn't stop you from being matched up with the same person twice. However your system of having people you can't play with ever again would be very cluttered and mostly unnecessarily

OH MAN NOT GOOD1 votes

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IndianBilly1 votes

I've waited 10 minutes between matches before- and ONE DAY I GOT THE SAME PERSON 4 TIMES IN A ROW. Save your BS- the only reason it seems like I'm the only one having this problem... is because the people that are fed up don't even bother coming to these boards. I'm wondering why I'm even wasting my time here anymore. In fact, I won't anymore... this game is for people that have nothing better do than watch a system cheat and assign groups with a 50% chance of winning, even though the match is ALWAYS HORRIBLY LOP-SIDED.

ShaftyMegee1 votes

I would like the button. Though there are millions of people who play league.... I don't think this would help much at all.

Oh and assholes would probably make it a game to press that button for every time they are matched with.

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