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Bordable·6/29/2017, 6:28:28 AM·2 votes·277 views

After what happened yesterday, i completely lost my will to play this game, hell, i can't even look at it without feeling depressed.

I'm a pretty old player, started playing by the end of season 2, at the time Nautilus was created, i think? I've took a pause from it for about seven months, and then returned about a month ago, slowly learning about everything that have changed.

Sure, it was pretty tough at first, but i managed to get through and relearn how play the game, it was pretty nice, once again i've started enjoying it.

Time passed, and not too long ago, i've decided to try and start playing rankeds again.

First two games, won, i was pretty happy about myself. Next one was lost, but that's okay, it happens to everyone.

My fourth game left me with real suicidal thoughts.

Picked Vi jungle and like always, tried to do my best. Died a few times at start, but turned it around by doing a few ganks and helping out others.

We were currently doing dragon, when i screwed up my smite, enemy Graves flashed in, smited the dragon and ulted me, not only stealing the infernal dragon from us but also insta-killing me.

I instantly saw a nice wall of flame slowly appearing on the chat.

Now, don't get me wrong, i'm usualy a pretty agressive person myself, but at least i won't be flaming you unless you start first. Yeah, it did get me in trouble a few times in the past.

But this time, something strange happened inside of me.

I wasn't angry.

I didn't started swearing and/or verbaly assaulting the guy back, i wasn't passive agressive, i didn't do anything, i simply said: "I'll leave it without a comment"

Through entire game i remained docile and level-headed, not letting anything tilt me or throw me off, despite my team's best effort to do so.

But here's the thing, when it's just a single guy flaming you, you can always just mute him and brush it off, it's not like his opinion is everything that matters.

But not when it's more than that, when it's the majority of your team.

Seeing everyone constantly spam in chat that you should kill yourself, that you're uselles, worthless, pathetic and should uninstall this game, over and over and over for the next 20 minutes do have an impact on you.

...And it was a pretty hard impact at that.

I was extremely depressed, i really did my best, and often my team would blame me for things i haven't even done, or their own mistakes.

(If the entire enemy team have an advantage over you, and is currently storming their way towards you, it is not a good idea to start making Baron. But hey, it's my fault because i didn't helped making Baron as i stayed back and tried warding bushes.)

And when hearing from 3-4 different people about how you should kill yourself...

...You do start getting some bad ideas.

I don't know if i would've done it, i don't want to know myself, but thankfully my friends were online so i could talk to them and feel a bit better.

That night i haven't slept till 1:30 am, constantly thinking back to the match and wondering whenever i could've done something differently.

And the magic of this entire story?

I've reported two most toxic players on my team, which have happened to be Vayne and Orianna.

I was 100% sure they are going to be penalized.

They weren't.

Despite being verbaly assaulted whole game long and being brought to depression, they're just going to leave the game and go ruin someone's else life like that.

I basicaly lost any will to play this game, and i don't believe anymore that this game even have some sense of justice in it.

3 Comments

deathgod56/29/2017, 6:36:08 AM1 votes

A few things:

  1. The penalize system usually doesn't give out a signal when a player get's punished.

  2. Genuinely sorry this happened to you, I feel that some people forget that they are actually talking to people the moment they enter the game.

  3. Although they try to have "justice", there are people who can slip through the cracks for extremely long times, this especially goes for trolling and afking. Flamers usually get banned after a few weeks when they really start flaming.

  4. If you generally just feel bad about a game you should stop playing it. However I would suggest playing with mute all on first.

Coopa1236/29/2017, 10:20:48 AM1 votes

But here's the thing, when it's just a single guy flaming you, you can always just mute him and brush it off, it's not like his opinion is everything that matters. But not when it's more than that, when it's the majority of your team.

What?

It's not like there is just one mute option per game. If you have multiple people flaming you you could just mute multiple people. I absolutely do not understand your rationale

And when hearing from 3-4 different people about how you should kill yourself... ...You do start getting some bad ideas.

Muting them might have been a good idea, no?

I don't know if i would've done it, i don't want to know myself, but thankfully my friends were online so i could talk to them and feel a bit better.

Alright. You seem to have serious issues if the words of random strangers on the internet make you concider commiting suicide. It's time for you to step away from the game and find something else. You're supposed to play video games for fun, to relax or to forget about real world issues. If someone in my team flames I mute him and continue to enjoy the game. If multiple people flame I mute them and continue to enjoy the game. You can't seem to do that so I'd suggest that you seriously think about finding something else to do in your free time

That night i haven't slept till 1:30 am, constantly thinking back to the match and wondering whenever i could've done something differently.

Could have muted them ..

I was 100% sure they are going to be penalized. They weren't.

You don't know that