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League promotes selfish behavior and punishes the average players

Beerboots·6/27/2018, 7:30:53 AM·3 votes·1,227 views

I'm a generally non-toxic player. I never start crap with anyone, ever. I don't believe in getting on someone's case for playing badly, annoying though it may be. I encourage good plays and good teamwork. I do also however, react to players who are toxic towards me. This is the same behavior I would apply to work, home, parties, wherever... If someone starts picking on you or bullying you in real life you cannot afford to sit there and take it - your dignity and self esteem are at stake.

In league however, you are expected to be some kind of Jesus and just take it all on the chin. Report the toxic behavior and hope to see something done about it, which for you equates to a notification basically saying 'something was done about it'. Great, super satisfying. There's no escaping it though, you must remain in that game and continue to try and help your abusers have a good time by working with them to win the game no matter what...

This is nothing less than laziness on the part of Riot. Here, lets put a judgement bot to work and upload our cheap moral justification about being responsible for your own actions no matter what - just report and move on. Forget situational context and actual justice, we've got a business to run! Forget looking at a players track history to determine whether there's a pattern of negative behavior, let's just take all the bad words they said in a single game (without context) and equate that to a two week account suspension.

For me that's a no go. I've spent thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars on your game which i'm ashamed to admit, but it's my truth. If i'm going to waste half my life on your product, I expect a little more effort to go into the fairness part of your punishment system. On that note, thanks for the temp ban, it may serve as enough motivation for me quit your life leeching hobby once and for all. Time to go put my energy into some place where it is valued and appreciated since Riot sure doesn't give a damn.

Peace out scrubs

4 Comments

Kei1436/27/2018, 9:46:41 AM4 votes

Two things that jump into my mind right away when reading this:

  1. You don't need to sit and take it, there's a mute button which prevents you from any further harm. In an office setting it would be like you can close the sound proof door to your office and you can focus on your work. You don't need to keep the door open so he can freely enter and harass you.

  2. The system does work, you getting a 2 week ban is the best example of the system working. Though it does do a horrible job in letting people know that someone got punished, as you are only shown a punishment notification when the game you reported them in is shown in the reform card. The reform only shows you 1-5 recent games as examples of unacceptable behavior, so if your report happened before that criteria, you would never be notified.

Btw...

looking at a players track history to determine whether there's a pattern of negative behavior

This is largely how the system works right now. The exception is for hate speech, racism, homophobia and encouraging others to be harmed, which are part of the zero tolerance system and is indeed a word filter.

Zipotosaurus Rex6/27/2018, 9:07:50 AM3 votes

This is 100% true, and the poster does make good arguments and good points. I dont understand the downvotes. Its true that league's banning system barely works.

Aneirin6/27/2018, 9:29:17 PM1 votes

This is the same behavior I would apply to work, home, parties, wherever

Because real life doesn't have a mute button that instantly fixes the problem. League does.

you cannot afford to sit there and take it - your dignity and self esteem are at stake.

You don't have to just take it, you can mute them straight away. There's nothing at stake in a video game.

hi ìm groot6/27/2018, 9:32:42 PM1 votes

Yep, totally accurate. But big companies like riot know they'll be targeted eventually if they don't do some kind of 0 tolerance policy so they do it to avoid ever having to take any heat for something that happens in their game. It's a joke, but its business.