Could you imagine if sports players talked to each other the same way league players do
walks over to other team "My fucking team sucks" "good game, team can't fucking play"
someone misses ball "fuck just stop playing" "holy, kill yourself"
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One team wins over the other. The national anthem is interrupted by "GGEZ" screams.
"fuck just stop playing" "holy, kill yourself"
Sounds like Cristiano Ronaldo to me
Dont compare pro sports players to people who play sports casually. Whenever we used to play football just for fun, there was always banter, no one is gonna go over and shake their friends hand like they are in some pro league game, it's just a casual match.
Same for league (to an extent), in pro league (LCS) it's more easier to keep a pro enviorment, the players shake hands and work together because they are a team. In normal games it's like drafting a team on the school playground, you get random guys and just play no one cares about "the honor code" of sports when it's just a bunch of guys passing time playing a meaningless game.
have you ever seen kids play football?
"First time QB?"
"Never play Point Guard again."
"GG troll Second Basemen."
"Report Goalkeeper boosted."
OP clearly had no childhood and never did sports as well.
Sports players DO talk like this to each other. Have you ever played a sport?
didn't realize I was a professional league player
Video games aren't a sport.
They sort of do, but only to the other team :P
It can actually be really entertaining to watch- IE the Aqib Talib & Michael Crabtree scuffle from last year...
yea this happens a lot in sports. Getting into your opponents head is half the battle. happens all the time in basketball, football, and hockey. They just don't disrespect their own team, its targeted all towards the opposing players.
go play a game of pickup basketball.
Gordon Ramsey talks to his kitchen team the way LOL players talk to thier team.
To be fair, if you played soccer and one of your teammates started shooting the ball into your net (Feeding) i'm sure your team would not be stoked about it.
If they're randomly assigned together without ever having met each other before, or plan on meeting again, then...
Then yeah. I could totally imagine that.
Oh they do it in real life. Sometimes it involves the manager screaming at you until he turns purple and throwing staplers like a Touhou boss. Sometimes it involves random retail customers snapping like a dry twig and trying to jump the counter to gut you like a fish and bathe in your chest cavity in response to you being out of their favored brand of tobacco (anyone who works in retail can empathize).
And don't even get me started on mass shooters and domestic terrorists.
The main difference is in real life, people can actually try to commit real violence against you. We decided the best reaction to that was to arm everyone, including the psychopaths just seconds away from forever losing their shit.
how i imagine kids raging in chat
i had someone like that in my class once (without the "holy, kill yourself" part)
man, i have a question. I have a game with at least 4 Chinese players on both team. The enemy team call me black, African and flame me. Talked trash words to me. So, i said: chingchong, go back to China. And later only I got banned for 14 days. Do you think its fair?
What's even funnier is imagining these people facing off in real life. Sure there are some buff dudes but I picture a bunch of fat people or skinny, malnourished people raging at each other and it just makes me laugh so hard.
I played many sports from 2nd grade up until my senior year of high school and I have to say that it's not that different. I've been hazed, shit talked, and even beat up by my own teammates on different sports teams. Some of the students from my teams were suspended and kicked off the team for their behaviors. People are people, anywhere you go. It's not the game which dictates the behavior, it is the person.
When someone is not put under pressure, they usually will not exhibit unusual behaviors like these. In more casual video games, this is why the illusion exists that there is a "better" community -- but that simply is not true. If the casual game had a stimulus which could not be overcome via a pay to win barrier (anything that requires thought or skill), the behavior of a lot of players would change.. and some would probably quit.
Different individuals handle stress in different ways. While some are carefree and can readily accept their mistakes and defeat, others have a much more difficult time letting it go. In players who have trouble coping with inability to succeed, this either leads to motivation to improve or outright frustration.. which often is vented on others.
I'm not here to say I'm some PhD in Psychology, but I do indeed believe that the type of game that League of Legends is, is a major factor in causing these behaviors (but not the fact that it's a video game in itself). Competitive games cause stress, it doesn't matter if it is an online video game, or a sport in real life.
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They often do in the non-professional circuit, plenty of people are forced out of teams due to the bullying that goes on.
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If a player intentionally throws and trolls games they are kicked out and banned form the club, quick fucking smart, no exceptions, either that or beaten to a pulp in the locker rooms, both even.
Don't compare a game that rewards anonymous trolls, feeders and trolling to a organized team sport though, doesn't really work out.
Compare it more to a bunch of ice heads locked in a room with ear busting music all trying to play 1 chord on a single guitar.
This player called someone a child, he tried to get it repealed, and they permabanned him for it.