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About Toxic players.

AIexis·4/16/2016, 2:00:55 AM·2 votes·855 views

Welcome to League of Legends, where toxicity spreads like the plague. Toxicity is a real issue in this game, and to be honest, 85% of my losses. Once someone is toxic on the team, I just mute them. But they start arguing with someone (I tell them to mute each others, but people love drama, of course.) And then they stop playing properly, and only argue, brings the whole team down.

As someone who's been playing league on pretty much every rank on the ladder, I can say that it's the same everywhere (Though low gold, plat and diamond is pretty insane, sometimes.) People insulting and threatening each others, quitting the game. The whole point of playing a game is to have fun, not rage quit.

My point is, toxicity is really a big issue. I feel like the punishment is not severe enough. There are definitely alot of improvements that could be done. Also, there used to be ribbons for positive player, which would get honored (People never really honor anymore, I'm positive, helpful, and always do my best to help others improve in my games, I usually get a teamwork or something once every 10 games) The system looks kinda dead, I haven't seen anyone granted a ribbon in the past 2-3 years. And I've only seen 2 people with ribbons in the past year, one of which is my friend that never plays anymore.

There's definitely something that could be done with the honor system, and the report system. Maybe even give more chances to get key fragments when you're a positive player or something.

3 Comments

Lothàrs Edge4/16/2016, 7:50:25 AM1 votes

Lol, and what will severe punishment teach them?

Do you care more about seeking your self-perceived justice or actual reformation?

This reminds me of capital punishment. I don't entirely disagree with it, but if we're going to argue that we want these people to behave better and act a certain way, sometimes severe punishments aren't the way to go, even if you want them to be punished. At that point it becomes more about satisfying your own desires. I won't lie, it's addicting reporting people who deserve to be reported. But it doesn't solve the issues at hand.

Fovere4/16/2016, 9:54:27 AM1 votes

If you're been here for any length of time, you would understand what "toxic" used to mean and how broadly the term has been expanded. Riot appears to have trouble setting boundaries for what is bad, or unpleasant, and what is punishable. It is one thing to try and keep people free from harassment, hate speech, excessive vulgarity/profanity, personal insults, etc. It's quite another to say any comment made that isn't "positive" is somehow actionable.

 You have a large population of immature players here and, age aside, everyone handles success and failure differently. Competitive games will bring out a lot of feelings of resentment, inadequacy, jealousy, etc. which will manifest themselves in behavior. The goal here should be to keep people from harassment, personal attacks, and -excessive- "bad manners," so as to not disrupt the gameplay/experience, not to adopt the unrealistic expectation of forcing every interaction to be an act of friendship and have people more focused on beating someone with a report rather than beating them in game.