Banned? Create a new account. Total BS

Sgt Pepper 420·8/5/2018, 8:47:07 PM·2 votes·1,429 views

RIOT please - set something up like DOTA2 where your account has to be hooked up to Steam... or have a Credit Card attached to the account. Make it so that there is an actual pain associated with a ban. 6 games straight in ranked play I end up with people who are flat trolling, deliberately feeding if they see at 5 minutes that they aren't going to be able to solo-carry, rage quit after initiating surrender votes, etc. It is so easy to create a new account and then these trolls outnumber real players at the entry level to the game and in low level ranked play. I suspect part of why you are not getting as many new players is because of this. If you create a system that forces people to link a phone number/credit card/steam account/etc and that person gets banned, it becomes MUCH harder for them to ruin the experience for other people. If someone wants to go through the trouble of getting a new phone number and credit card number just to troll, well, there is enough hassle involved that they are only going to be able to do it so often.

I even see one guy in post game chat saying the following things:

TROLL RIVEN: Be sure to report me and thank Riot for doing nothing with it

[ME]: thanx riven. got demoted because of you

TROLL RIVEN: never have been, been this way since i started playing

[ME]: and honestly we all deserved tilt proof except for riven

TROLL RIVEN: not cause me TROLL RIVEN: pyke and yi died enough for both teams TROLL RIVEN: PLS do have fun spending your ytime on me TROLL RIVEN: I fed the other day TROLL RIVEN: hard

OTHER PLAYER: This Riven honeslty thinks shes not gonna be banned

TROLL RIVEN: i have never been TROLL RIVEN: ever

OTHER PLAYER: i wish i can see the look on your face

TROLL RIVEN: in my 4 yrs of playing

OTHER PLAYER: when reality hits you hard

TROLL RIVEN: have fun TROLL RIVEN: wasting your time on me

3 Comments

disregardable8/5/2018, 9:03:43 PM8 votes

I don't own a phone, and most parents aren't going to just give their teenagers their credit cards to set up some gaming account. Riot's business model is literally, "have as many people playing as possible", which doesn't work with barriers to entry.

Eltacito8/5/2018, 11:02:28 PM1 votes

League in south korea does require a korean social security number. Maybe something similar will be implemented else where sooner or later.

Festing8/6/2018, 9:29:27 AM1 votes

Rito encourages duplicate accounts because chances are you're dumb enough to spend money on them after being permabanned. And it has everything to do with profits.