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Honor, Reports, and genuinely, generally, the worst gaming community to date.

BonkeyDolls·5/1/2018, 3:31:33 PM·3 votes·3,104 views

I've been a gamer for some time now, not a super serious one, more casually but have gone through the ranks in CS, Guild Wars, WoW... Never take it to the highest levels but besides the point. Point being, a community can make or break gaming experiences and while there are plenty of reasonable and good-natured players, the macho solo keyboard warriors overwhelm the game.
Rank, gets people, out of their minds. Countless games where someone thinks they're going to solo the game then blames everyone for their poor performance (just because the other team worked together... teamwork, its a thing.) I really doubt they'd ever do this, but, maybe being an honorable player, or one thats constantly reported, should have some bearing on who you're teamed with. Overall, I think its really in poor taste that I'm often honored by one or more team members for numerous reasons and play well for those close wins, only to queue up and find we have a "smurfing" once gold II top laner with the worst attitude ever, teamwork not in his vocab and what can only be hundreds of reports. The game is lost within 12 mins and was a total blowout.
Unfortunately, from what it seems, the reporting system doesn't actually curb any poor behavior. I get it, no way is there enough time to research it all, but maybe lessen the chances that someone with 500 reports gets teamed with accounts with 500 honors.
:/ Posted out of frustration I'm sure so many of the community can relate to. And whats with not playing out the full game? ff @ 15? I've come back from many games where we've got nothing but nexus towers, and had it happen to me as well. Isn't that what its all about? To stand in the face of a challenge and still put up a fight.. somehow everyone wants to start the game 6/0/0 and if not fed, S+ performance, doomed, all hope is lost, white flag. Have you ever played a sport? lol, I mean you can't just do that!

6 Comments

Ashe mage AD5/1/2018, 3:36:15 PM2 votes

Why's it so hard to get it.. don't fish for ranks lol.

Bıogen5/1/2018, 5:17:54 PM2 votes

How about a GTA 5-like system (the 'bad sport lobby') in which dishonorable people get taken out of the matchmaking player pool for a certain amount of time, so they can only start games with other dishonorable people. This will 'clean' the player pool, so that eventually more games will have less toxic, flaming, or trolling people in it. But you allow those bad sports to still play games, but just in a negative players pool so they can go annoy each other.

Kaioko5/1/2018, 4:27:36 PM1 votes

The only suggestion I'm finding from your post is to separate those who get reported from playing with those who do not. We've already done the analysis on this several times over including Riot commenting on it as to why this is not viable. You can research "desert island" system on the boards and you'll find all the data you need to understand why that's not a viable solution.

Ultimately I completely agree with you that this game from a player behavior standpoint has huge issues. Problem is though, we've had a really tough time trying to figure out how to fix it. The current reward system is actually one of the better fixes as now being dishonorable really screws up what champions you can get (and those players are typically constantly creating new accounts so they need access to that pool of champs).