Final Thought: The dumbest PSA ever.

Hi.

How do you view your League of Legends experience. Are you having a hard time seeing what might be triggering disciplinary action against you?

Perhaps you will understand a bit better what is expected of those who join the League as Summoners by considering the following.

When you sign up to play the game, you are eventually asked to agree to the "Summoner's Code". A lot of time and effort has gone into this sort of guideline sheet which details how you each Summoner should interact with one another. Being apart of League of Legends is a lot like being in a friendship with it's community. This is true in any multiplayer game. A friendship is a form of relationship by literary definition.

When you are in a relationship with someone or a group of people, how you treat the relationship often dictates the length of the relationship, which can be either a solid bond or a fragile thread depending on how the relationship is approached.

If one of your friends or a member from your group constantly made things difficult for you to feel comfortable about being in the relationship, would you not feel it difficult to want to face that person? You might find yourself avoiding them where possible. Eventually, you may try to find ways to eliminate that person's presence from your life or from the group.

This is exactly what is symbolized and personified by League's tiers of punishment.

If you've ever wondered why the punishments seem gradual at first, and then escalate quickly to Permanently Banned, try likening it to the various stages of a relationship before separation becomes imminent:

1 Warning : 1 Heart-to-heart conversation : Verbal Warning

4 Game Chat Restriction : 1 Visiting Parents : 1 Written Write-up

14 Day Suspension : Weekend Vacation without you : 2 Write-up and suspension for X days.

1 Permanently Banned : 1 I'm breaking up with you. : You're fired. No unemployment.

Of course, there are several other types of relationships you can compare this to, and while not all will line up the way this was done for simplicity's sake, but the overall pattern is there.

If you've ever come close to losing your job, have ever let "that one" get away, and just so happen to be walking the Reform System's razor edge, remember that compromise is important. You may be right wrong. But if you appear to not care about your relationship to League of Legends (which really is it's community), League of Legends WILL consider this to be true and will let you know, just as any other party to any relationship will.

When you feel as though you are coming close to conflict with members of League of Legends, it is important to remember that League of Legends is all 100% people. On the other side of every computer screen is another person. Behind every champion is a designer, VFX Artist, an intern, a shout-caster, Technical Support aide, ... A HUMAN BEING with their own personal story. People who are apart of a group who care for the groups success will look out for the best interest of the group, right or wrong.

In the end, the relationship of the individual members of the group will attempt to remain pure, purging all other possible impurities if possible and necessary. Those who make things difficult just aren't cut out for life within the group. The same holds true for League of Legends.

DON'T ALLOW YOUR FEELINGS TO COME BEFORE YOUR FRIENDSHIP/RELATIONSHIP/CAREER/ACCOUNT.

ALWAYS TREAT LEAGUE OF LEGENDS AS AN UNDESERVED GIFT FOR YOU TO ENJOY AND SHARE WITH OTHERS.

... or you'll be out in the cold.

Peace! [katarina-love]