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Help me understand.

Lunyris·2/4/2016, 9:39:26 PM·6 votes·1,174 views

I'm just having a hard time grasping the concept of why some people are so rude and angry to others in game??? I play arams a lot, and some normal games sometime, i rarely play ranked games (because god forbid you are a human being and make a mistake in a ranked game, you might as well have murdered your teammate's families). I have NEVER EVER reported someone for "being bad" and I think it is a ridiculous practice to begin with. It is rare that I see a fellow teammate try and help someone improve. Instead, I see people making their teammates feel bad in all chat, or the enemy team doing the same. It just really pisses me off. I have reported someone in at LEAST 1 of every 5 games if not more for being toxic and rude, and its frustrating. What i also find irritating is that people rarely tell these toxic people in game to stop. I know it's usually a lost cause and people will just be assholes if they want to be assholes and it can't always be helped, but its just shitty. If i see a teammate getting told they are bad or stupid or a "%%%got" or whatever, I almost always talk to them after the game simply because I know how frustrating it is to be talked to that way. I play League because I enjoy playing it, and playing with people that act like that makes me not enjoy the game.

My point in posting this is just to ask people to be nice and more helpful. I understand that some people are just gonna be assholes no matter what and that's just how life works, But it ruins the game for people. If you see someone being toxic to a fellow teammate, tell them to stop or try to help your teammate in a constructive way. Tell your teammates they are doing a good job more often, be a positive asset to your team instead of being mean to them. Remind your teammate (or yourself) that there is a mute button. If you are playing with someone that isn't very good or is new to the game and doesn't know what they are doing, add them and offer to play with them and help them improve. It'll make the game more enjoyable for you, for them, and for their future team. What a great way to make new friends too????

I don't mean to sound like an overprotective mom, but seriously it's not that hard to be nice to other people. There is a PERSON. ANOTHER HUMAN BEING on the other side of that screen. We've all had bad games, we've all been new at this, we've all been told we are bad or a noob or whatever, but we do not have to keep that going. Let's just be nice to each other and help each other. Be more receptive of constructive criticism. Listen to your team. And don't let toxic people continue to be toxic. Report them, tell them to please stop, mute them. Don't be toxic back to them, don't tell the other team in all chat they "our yi is an asshole", just politely tell them to please stop and if they don't then mute them and continue to have a good game.

19 Comments

Twiggles2/4/2016, 9:51:54 PM3 votes

I saw "Help me understand" in the Player Behavior board with no up or down votes yet.

I went in prepared for my zest for life to once again steadily drain from my body as I read yet another rage fueled perma ban thread.

I came out the other side very pleasantly surprised. League needs more players like you.

Feel free to add me if you're looking for more friends to play with. Me and my buddies are always looking for more friendly people. :D

(I probably won't accept your request immediately if you send one. I'm on a break at work right now and plan to spend a good portion of my immediate home time pre-loading Xcom 2.)

Malhammers2/4/2016, 9:44:03 PM2 votes

I hate how people (yes you) think this game is any different from any other online game you have ever played. CoD, WoW, etc all have racial slurring, toxic, berating players but, for some reason, this game's community is "soooo much different". Its not. Stop acting like it is.

Phenyxs2/4/2016, 11:45:30 PM2 votes

I feel what your saying and have posted similar post in regards to this. I do struggle with the toxic attitude In game play and have yet to understand why it has gotten worse over the years. it is something that riot needs to address better. But also players who are not toxic need to mute or tune them out. I have been in cases where I got so frustrated it to my game play away. One time was where this person started in the lobby and followed thru into the game. I muted him. My problem is when you don't respond to there behavior but get threatened with " I am reporting you ". I say go ahead I did nothing to you or the team and end it. I do get concerned about the threating of reports because if it goes thru then what? I did nothing wrong. And you don't get the chance to explain or reply to the notice. So I bear with it. So far it turns out to be talk and toxic behavior to get under your skin You make a statement about " tell them to stop or try to help your teammate in a constructive way". I have done that and 99% of the time it doesn't work. I will be playing and I have caught people riding another player as a tag team theme. I at some point would chime in and say ENOUGH. STOP NOW PLEASE. 10 min later they want to get in to it with me. LMAO. It is up to them to work with you or against you. I ran into several people who will tell you they are banned on other accounts and in game you can still see why. Riot post a in game note while lobby is loading on how behavior changes in last year and so on. But you don't see is the reports of the repeat offenders. Hard to keep that in count with new accounts made all the time. get banned they come back more aggressive and worse in a new account. Part of a FREE game. Being said, Riot has a report process in place and use it. I didn't for the longest time and now I do if I feel it is a worthy cause and hope the report is taken serious and looked at. I have been reported one time my whole time playing this game and it went thru and I was shocked and laughed. I remember what it was- a person playing ekko and mid game I looked and he kept dying. I play ekko in rank a lot and I asked him first time if he was OK. nothing in return. 2 people said after all he is doing is using his Q. I waited and again I asked if he was new to Ekko I can give you some tips. Nothing in return for a response. I dropped it and we lost in ARAM. I left. Loading next game a report comes thru. All it said was we all have bad days and so on and I had to accept it or not continue to play. I did. I didn't go to riot to challenge it sense I knew what I said and so on. So reporting is a option as well as mute them and what I do now is if I play rank I try to team up with one or more friends I know will be a good game win or loose. So being said I as well offer you to friend me if you want. I will accept and game on. GL..

GRVet3ran0sS2/4/2016, 10:18:26 PM1 votes

When you behave like an autistic person ingame, the flamer cant say something nice to you.

Wickedfates2/5/2016, 3:09:38 AM1 votes

right..... preach

runandscream2/5/2016, 1:00:35 AM1 votes

I hear you. Honestly though, I rarely have those kind of people in my games. There was one person who said "Thresh, you're trash!" All I said was "thank you" and that was the end of it.

If you want to play nice fun games, come and play with me and my friends.

No flash no life2/5/2016, 1:14:07 AM1 votes

Just my opinion, which I've stated in other posts. This community isn't that much different from other gamining communities, but it acts much more toxic, sensitive, and trolly because of the following:

  1. Winning isn't considered the objective. Victory isn't rewardining enough, and defeat induces insignificant consequences. It's important to have fun, but ppl value fun over winning in this game. In other games winning makes the game fun, but not this game.

  2. A teammate's mistake makes the entire team suffer. People aren't treating their opponents as enemies; they're treating their teammates as enemies because their teammates are the real culprits that make their lives (in the game) hard.

Troll Armada2/5/2016, 1:22:26 AM1 votes

This is your generation at work. Most of the values of this generation are shallow values designed only to cover a person's outward appearance to others.

Here, where you remain anonymous, this generations vile underbelly is exposed for what it really is. A bunch of mean spirited, selfish, vicious kids.

I can only hope to have passed away prior to this generations maturation into adulthood.

Malhammers2/4/2016, 9:48:17 PM1 votes

You didn't directly say its any different, but you sure implied it based off of your 3 paragraph novel on the subject. This is a game played over the internet by a bunch of anonymous players. As long as that is the case then this game, along with all other internet-capable games, will have this issue. Its not even worth discussing in my opinion as there is no solution to it and will ALWAYS be a proble. Thats all.