Open letter to LOL - Please Do Something About the Player Base Behavior

Leggins1·11/12/2016, 7:57:15 PM·7 votes·1,229 views

I have had an account in one form or another since season 1. I have come and gone 2 or 3 times over the years due to various life events, however, one thing is becoming abundantly clear. That is, that moderation of the player base is severely lacking and as a result more than 50% of games include a game ruining player influence, and its getting worse.

To be clear, I am not a high elo player, I am a father, who plays a game or two a couple nights a week after my kid is in bed or taking a nap. This means that I don't have the opportunity to play many games and it is important to me that the games I do get to play are enjoyable. Some might say but "Leggins1 the player base is too large to moderate", and that may well be true, however, I have to believe that there is a better way to manage the player base. I am not blameless, and have probably have done things punishable via the rules, however, there are no meaningful punishments so why not join in. I am not referring to someone leaving champion select or even the incredibly toxic AFK, I am referring to player behavior in game. Language is worse, intentional feeding is worse, slurs are worse, etiquette is worse, everything is worse from a play experience perspective when compared to even a year ago. This leads me to believe that the punishment system for behavior is ineffectual. I understand things happen, people have a bad day, but the punishment potential has to make players think twice before raging, and right now it simply does not.

Win or lose, LOL is a great game I enjoy, but i feel like unless i queue a 5 man its a roll of the dice. Fully 50% of the time, even after a win, I regret spending what little free time i have playing LOL, because of the player experience. I have spoken to many friends who play the game, and it is a growing concern. Please make an honest evaluation of how you moderate and hand out punishment. It sure feels like profits trump a quality experience...

14 Comments

Ada Wong11/12/2016, 8:53:12 PM2 votes

I agree new season is awful...

Many games where junglers are (Intentionally Throwing Games) happened 3 games yesterday and 1 today.

Second game of the day, the (ADC) Comes mid after other players fed my lane giving him an advantage stays there for over 60 seconds farming creeps pushing lane and intentionally throwing off game play ruining the entire frgging game, everyone just runs around and feeds then...

Naturally players want to argue with me I just /mute all and go about the game seems like players would at least try to win or do something rather than feed early on but they don't care run around the jungle feeding kills and trying to kill people there );.

Unstoppable Monk11/12/2016, 10:58:23 PM1 votes

Are you talking about the ranked or normal queues?

It seems like you're better off trying out organized 5s instead of randoms, tbh.

ShinkoMinori11/13/2016, 1:27:09 AM1 votes

since season 1 and you are silver?

PlanetWarwick11/13/2016, 1:47:43 AM1 votes

Alright, listen up there's always retards who are and will be retards You can't just always expect to get teammates who aren't tilted and won't flame you. If you want, /mute them or just don't play the game

Best MasterYl NA11/15/2016, 1:45:01 PM1 votes

use the mute button, if we ban every rager in the game there will be like half the player base left