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Risking accounts worth hundreds of dollars if I don't want to endure torment

Clock Daddy·9/10/2016, 5:40:38 AM·1 votes·468 views

How is it acceptable for me to be forced to play a game with someone who decides to quit and cause a half hour - hour time period of grief upon me and 3 other players? Why are we not allowed to just quit and use our service/our investment meaningfully. I should not have to be FORCED to entrapped with what someone that is misusing the service to torment me as they wish. It's ridiculous that if I decide to stop playing that I'm risking hundreds of dollars invested in my account because I don't want to endure such a thing. Do we even own anything when we purchase anything from Riot Games and League of Legends? I feel like having such a poor handle of this for years demands even legal action be involved. This is what is inherently wrong with the handling of this game.

Smurf accounts are how these people continue to infect our community without fearing punishment. It also ruins the new player game experience. I suggest putting efforts towards eliminating the use of smurfs and finding a way to increase an accounts value. Benign uses of smurf include pro players wanted to avoid excess queue times. This needs to have a solution in it of itself and not be related to smurfs. Creating another queue for higher level players to join would solve this -- it would attempt to also balance "smurfs" of equal value into the normal stream of players. Creating a smurf account needs to be a thing of the past and punishments should be IP wide/some other method that creates a large gap between how easy it is to smurf and abuse this games services.

/endrant

8 Comments

Sarutobi9/10/2016, 5:51:18 AM4 votes

But they dont ban people for leaving game, at worse you just get a 20min queue wait.You dont risk losing your account, but then again you are breaking the rules when you leave a game. In the case of having a troll, or someone who is trying to intentionally lose you the game you have to remember this is a team game. While the person doing this is usually one person, you being able to leave is just giving the finger to the other people in your team. All of you dont deserve the person trolling/losing the game, but the other people on your team doesnt deserve you leaving because of one person.

Then this goes about being abused especially in rank play. What stopping another person from doing this so another person can take the lost? There is nothing they can do to stop something like this from happening. Mainly because you cannot predict when someone is going to troll or not. Granted some people will state it beforehand, others won't or they'd be more creative to try and not get punished.

In the case of Smurf sadly that too cannot be handled. This is something they should have seen coming, and probably should have either made a rule to have one account, or made it so you link your smurfs accounts to your main account.

Astôlfo9/10/2016, 5:45:16 AM2 votes

lolno.

You're not paying for anything other than RP, which you yourself agreed to buy and pay for. Also no, you do not own anything, including the account. There is nothing wrong. Quit complaining.

Xidphel9/10/2016, 4:03:01 PM2 votes

Your account isn't worth anything.

Gimpy899/10/2016, 6:16:33 PM2 votes

riot made smurfing easier by drastically lowering the exp to get to 30. bad call imo