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I can't play this game anymore.

Evne·10/8/2017, 7:00:07 AM·2 votes·810 views

I've been playing this game since roughly Season 3 came out. It's been a game that I've loved, and I've loved watching it come the distances it came. I've never been good at this game, but it's always been fun regardless. The thing that I can't stand is the community; not as a whole but there is definitely some really bad apples. With work and my school schedule I can't play unless its super late at night. I only get a few hours to play usually and it seems like every match I get into is just full of the worst people I've ever played with mentality-wise. These people just get SO toxic and they tilt me just from seeing their team chat, I've tried /mute all every single match and it's ended up blocking out my ability to communicate with my team. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not innocent here, I just can't help myself. When someone gets into the chat and starts acting that hostile towards random people it just gets to me, and I wish I had the self control to just ignore it, and to just walk away from that by ignoring them but I don't. My last game I disconnected early and said some pretty terrible things, I can't take that back and honestly if I get banned it's only a loss of a lot of money and time, but its not undeserved. I guess I'm just making this discussion to vent, but I can't even seem to have fun playing this game anymore, and that makes me really sad. All my friends who I used to play with have moved on, and queuing by myself just seems to be so toxic for me.

I guess I kind of hope that if someone has had some similar experiences, maybe they can shed some light on ways I can improve on not being so easily "triggered" by them. As a veteran of the game, who's seen it change a WHOLE lot, this is probably the goodbye. I'll probably get perma'd for my behavior in my last match anyway, and incase anyone in that match sees this or just in general anyone whos been affected by it sees this, I apologize openly.

TL;DR - I suck at this game, and I don't have fun playing it anymore so I'm done.

8 Comments

General Esdeath 10/8/2017, 8:02:43 AM1 votes

Well goodluck in life and finding something fun then friend!

MadMad Sickness10/8/2017, 8:06:52 AM1 votes

Seems to me like that may be a personal issue. If you get stressed out with playing the game then you should disconnect from it for a little while.

You know, kudos to you for recognizing that there's a problem with your own behavior while reacting to someone else's behavior. The only thing I can tell you is that it helps to take a deep breath and not take things seriously.

Have more faith in the reporting system and report people who are toxic and just leave it up to the system to handle these instances. The biggest problem with the current system is that it relies on you reporting the match. If you don't report it, then it won't be flagged for review, and the people who harass you will get away with their negative behavior. Ontop of that, if you add to this behaviour then either your report won't be entirely authentic or you will also be punished. Also, the more actively you engage in self control the more others will follow you and your games won't be so full of it.

I also used to get worked up by those games, nowadays i just mute and report. You HAVE to recognize that you are reacting to these messages because you are aware of them.

If you mute them then they won't touch you, you will be completely unaware of them. Ignorance is bliss is true here, just feel comfortable in knowing that the toxicity cannot touch you if you are unaware of it. It may be a weird feeling at first but overtime you can get comfortable and even laugh at knowing that those toxic people are wasting their breath as they have no effect on you and their opinions don't matter to you.

Also, play something less serious and less stress inducing. Arams are particularly good at this as everyone sucks, because no one knows what they're doing.

sanshaoye10/8/2017, 9:37:40 AM1 votes

you're looking at this in the wrong light. if you're trying to win, it's an immensely uphill battle for you to enjoy the game because of players who are bent on ruining the game for others. if this is your (main) criteria for playing, then maybe quitting is a logical option. alternatively, you can join in the fun and troll other players. just don't chat and you won't face any consequences. in fact you will probably get to bait and report other players

x Royal Solo x10/8/2017, 4:49:25 PM1 votes

Later bro, enjoy the wide variety of less toxic games available.