This game and its unique, easily offended playerbase.

UnbeatablePlayer·8/4/2016, 1:55:01 AM·4 votes·969 views

I've played several games in my life, but I have never really seen a company handle punishments the way riot handles them. But primarily, I've never seen such an easily offended playerbase. It's like tumblr was made into a game. You could literally tell someone that they need to play more careful, and they'd say muted. Muted is like a universal response to everything you don't wanna hear. ( I guess that's what the feature was made for ). But there are so many threads on these boards complaining about x champion mains, adcs who ask their supports for things, and super independent supports who don't need no adc. Like, you'd think asking your support to exhaust properly would be fine in any other community, but if you ask them in league, you get reported, muted, and the support in question would proceed to tell you that they know how to play. tl;dr I'm just triggered by how easily people get triggered in this game. It's a giant ass trigger chain.

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Deep Terror Nami8/4/2016, 2:11:34 AM9 votes

Is the LoL player base more easily offended than elsewhere?

Or is Riot the only company to actually try to give them tools to deal with the problems of toxic behavior?

(It's the second one. The player base is the same group of people from every other game.)

Fifilona8/4/2016, 2:23:14 AM4 votes

I have literally muted 2 people. Its very rare that someone is annoying enough to make me mute them but its not about being offended when I do. Its about being too distracted by the person to play well. I will still support the crap out of the person that I muted especially if I feel like its the best way to win the game. I just don't want to hear them runs their mouth anymore because I realize it is affecting my game play.

The most recent person i muted was randomly running into the enemy bot as if they had a huge lag spike and lost control of their champ and feeding them kills except they didn't have a lag spike they just had some really horrible positioning/clicking issues. After dying each time they started complaining and blaming in the chat just nonsense like "why did you make me 1v2 them?" or "what are you doing?" etc I tried to be nice I didn't say what are you doing walking past the minion wave into melee range of a full health thresh and Caitlin i just said lets play more safe until they did it again and i asked them to please stop feeding and just farm the minions and that was about the end of the world for this person it was all "don't tell me what to do I'll afk" etc. We had 1 good play after that because the enemy tried to turret dive this adc. I managed to just barely keep her alive and they both died we both lived and this person says "wtf you ks me too" and about 4 other lines that I didn't read because enough is enough.

Its hard enough to play bot lane with a stranger you might not have any synergy with but one that is feeding kills and then yelling at you and you have no synergy with its almost impossible. We did win that game tho. I muted them and made plays with the rest of the team. They went off on their own and found some safe farm to catch up on. I still supported them when they grouped up with the team or near me.

I play to win but it's hard to win with someone distracting you in chat with their negative nonsense. I did see our top lane yelling at them about their positioning and flaming later in the chat so apparently they were still running their mouth later but it no longer affected me. Its not about being sensitive or easily offended its about not wanting to be distracted by someone running their mouth typing in chat rather than playing the game. I play to win not to bare witness to someones temper tantrum/need for attention. So yea when I mute, I mute to win not because my feelings got hurt.

GULAG 4 U8/4/2016, 2:02:08 AM2 votes

Get this thing on the front page already, gg

KVbqbFsC8e8/4/2016, 2:10:56 AM2 votes

Could not agree more. As much as people love to talk about how toxic this community is, they fail to mention how ridiculously oversensitive it is.

Lord Droverson8/4/2016, 4:16:16 AM1 votes

Personally, I think the problem doesn't lie in the community's "sensitivity". I think the issue is the lack of positivity within the game. Meaning, a person is quick to complain about a failed exhaust, instead of noticing the succesful play earlier (and not even commenting on it).

People notice mistakes and rarely say anything positive. So of course players are on the defensive. Heck, your support isn't going to take the statement "exhaust properly" very well because that is a condescending statement. Did you say anything nice before that? Did you take ownership of your mistakes? Did you say something like, "well get em next time" or anything uplifting?

Heck, what does "play more careful" even mean? A more constructive statement is, "dont worry (champion), we got this. Just try to farm as best as you can. It's ok to leave the tower if you need to".

LatetotheRace8/4/2016, 4:29:44 AM1 votes

In what game are people not "easily offended." In pretty much every mmo ANYTHING, people either get offended, block/report you and move on, or start an all out firefight. This is effectively no different. The only thing special here is that you're likely getting punished for your sins.