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New Player Experience

John II7·3/21/2016, 6:47:58 AM·1 votes·449 views

Up to this point, the player experience has been varied, with the majority of the community being toxic it seems. The lower levels, lets say 1-12, everyone is still learning to play and people don't get upset. The minority are the "smurfs" who are just trying to level up as quickly as possible and get to 30 or ranked or whatever they are trying to do.

Now that I am a little higher in level, the toxicity has increased ten fold and the language is abhorrent. I'm sorry I am not a smurf or a pro at this game, but that does not excuse you from calling me or anyone else retarded, autistic, possessing autism, stupid, etc. Yes, I mute them and report them. Oo, and according to these pro players, unless I am smurfing, I am not allowed to play in Mid, Top, Or Adc as I have to leave the carry positions to the smurfs, so they can carry.

But honestly, it feels like my reports have no weight. Nothing seems to be done, and I block a player because of their behavior, just to be matched with them later on. What is the point of blocking them if I continue to get matched with them? Not once, has anyone said a nice thing so far. I have yet to meet a player that has offered to teach/tell me hints, suggestions, how to play better etc. All everyone seems to care about is getting back to 30, get through the games as quickly as possible. Anyone that stands in their way, even their own team mates are a nuisance.

As for me, I am slowly grinding away so I can get one champ. Another problem for another day, champs are way too expensive. Yes there are quite a few 450 champs, but the decent ones are 4800 or more. And maybe I am slow, play around 5-10 games a day, but it is taking me forever to get to 4800. All for one champ, haven't even looked at runes yet.

1 Comments

Okiee Dokie3/21/2016, 7:56:39 PM1 votes

I agree with all of this, the toxicity has increased 10 fold like OP says since i have reached ranked games. These guys don't seem to realize berating and making fun of their teammates doesn't help at all and whats even more disturbing is the sheep on the team that follow suit. It's sad when one person is so toxic they entire team becomes toxic. as soon as this starts happening i just assume it's a loss even if it starts in the first 5 minutes and i haven't been wrong yet. 13 games in to ranked game play and haven't found one team that didn't have someone that was toxic. Not looking forward to continuing but i like the game and I'm hoping to find a group of people to play with who are not toxic. Until then i will continue to play and hopefully get better as i go ignoring the toxicity the best i can.