The Actual Problem With The Game

Usually I don't post on the boards, but this has been bothering me for quite some time and the lack of discussion around it worries me, so here is my 2 cents. I have seen videos and discussions about how to make league better from a gameplay and balance perspective. What bothers me is that no one seems to be talking about the real issue with the game, and no it's not related to the actual game itself. It is related to the community, and I don't mean the people who get upset in chat and rage and flame and are toxic etc. There is a mute button for people like that who call names and are just rude. The real issue is the griefers, the trolls, the intentional feeders, and even the people "soft" intentionally feed(those ones who give off the impression they are trying but in reality aren't). I also have a problem with how many people just don't play to win in ranked, like what is the point of separating the game between a normal queue and a ranked queue, if everyone just treats ranked as if it is a normal game? That really ruins the experience for people playing ranked to climb the ladder and win. Riot hasn't addressed this or brought it up recently in any videos or ask riots, instead they always talk about new modes features and balance related things. The reason the game isn't fun for a lot of people is because of these problematic players, and before it gets said, no the punishment system in place doesn't do a good job of finding these players. I took a break from the game because of this exact reason over the summer, and since returning it appears to have only gotten worse. Of my past 10 games I would say roughly 6 or 7 of them have had either a griefer, a troll, somebody who soft inted to lose, or a player who is just playing a champion they have never played for the first time in ranked, . This in turn makes me not want to try to win myself because what's the point of doing so if I'm going get someone like this more often than not? I feel like the punishment system in place focuses to much on the negativity in chat, which can easily be ignored with a mute, and ignores the root of the issue. I believe if Riot were to handle these griefers/trolls/inters the negativity in chat would honestly go down significantly, because people get frustrated when they feel someone is giving less effort than them or is sabotaging their game. For players like myself, to not see anything brought up to even let us know that this is on Riot's radar for the future is very disheartening and makes me question if I want to continue playing this game much longer, because you can make the game as amazing in terms of features and balance as you want, but if the real core issue stays the same none of that will matter. Off the top of my head I had an idea of, if there is a chat restriction in the game for people who are too negative in chat, why can't there be a ranked restriction for players who grief, or troll, or intentionally feed, or just queue for ranked without the intention of winning? I feel like this would be a good way to dissuade players from doing these things or they would eventually lose the privilege to play ranked and climb the ladder. There are probably other solutions to this too, but we as a community would really like to know that this is something Riot acknowledges and sees and is actively looking for a solution to. Right now it seems as if it's not even something that is on their radar based on content they have released regarding the game. Please Riot either do something about this, or at least let us know you are looking into it, it really ruins the game for people like myself when others just sabotage the games.