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Possible System to reform Permabanned Players and get them their accounts back

Jíro·9/28/2019, 12:47:33 AM·1 votes·2,611 views

So i tweeted riot support asking if anything like this was in the works. There isnt and i feel there should be. There are many players who have had their main accounts permanently banned due to toxic behaviors, such as myself. Those with banned accounts have lost lots of money, playtime, and achievments with the loss of their accounts. I believe permanent bans with no chance of recovery to be harsh. I believe that riot should develope a system where those with permabanned accounts can get a special provisionary account that is monitored by riot and is on probationary status with restrictions set against toxicity and etc.. (Restrictions against what they were permabanned for). You should be able to use these accounts to play out over a certain period of time, say a year, and have them represent you reforming as a player and person for the better and proving you need an account permaban removed. It would make a lot of sense for those who lost their accounts to both have a chance to reform as a person or face consequences and to possibly acquire their accounts again. Does anyone else like this idea? If so lets have rioters see this. Please message me if youd like anymore ideas. Lets work towards reforming players and getting their accounts back.

19 Comments

Imperial Pandaa9/28/2019, 12:53:53 AM6 votes

So, we know of at least 2 separate unban experiments have been done by Riot.

The first we were told was a complete failure basically. Like 5% of the people actually proved to reform once the accounts were given back.

The second, we never got an official response/report, but we have seen some people who claimed to have been unbanned punished again.

So why should we support a 3rd experiment?

Hotarµ9/28/2019, 12:55:02 AM4 votes

So i tweeted riot support asking if anything like this was in the works. There isnt and i feel there should be.

The reason there isn't anything in development regarding permabanned players is because of the two previous unban experiments held on NA.

(both times) A select group of players on NA were chosen to have their punishment status reduced from a permanent ban to a 14-day suspension. The first experiment resulted in a high failure rate (70-90%+) and the other never had it's results released (most players including myself assume it to be a failure for this reason.)

As of right now, Riot just doesn't have a reason to revert those correctly placed punishments.

Does anyone else like this idea?

It would be nice to have my old account back, but there has to be real consequences when it comes to the rules.

Arngrim319/29/2019, 2:30:21 AM4 votes

Enough with the "possible reform systems" already. You got permabanned and there is no way around it. Quit trying ask riot to implement dumb systems to unban toxic players who have been banned for obvious reasons. Riot gave you many warnings of what would happen if you continue the negative behavior and many players chose to ignore them and got permabanned for it. This is what happends when you don't listen, deal with it. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

KFCeytron9/28/2019, 1:56:56 AM2 votes

Riot has no interest in pouring resources into helping permabanned players. Why should they, after what those players did? They want those players to quit the game entirely and never return, hence the permabans.

Tele II9/28/2019, 1:48:40 AM2 votes

Lol at first I was amazed that someone actually cared about other permabanned player's accounts being restored to them. Then I got to the part where you have a permabanned account. Of course. Its always only people who have been permabanned and want their account back.

ShyImagoghnar9/28/2019, 1:50:18 AM1 votes

you get multiple chances to reform every season

afaik, punishment progress gets reset every season. at least, it seems like it. i've gotten 2 chat-based 14-day bans back to back in 2 different seasons twice

between season 7 and season 8, and between season 8 and season 9

GatekeeperTDS9/28/2019, 3:54:40 AM1 votes

There isnt and i feel there should be.

No there shouldn't. Punishments have to be punishments or they're not effective. Every experiment done in this vein before has failed. Failed hard. For the few permabanned players who have actually reformed, their recourse is to start a new account.

Riot has stated multiple times that they are not interested in finding more ways for pemabanned players to continue playing - they want them to stop playing. They had chances. I don't want them back in my goddamn games.

Lost R9/28/2019, 10:02:11 PM1 votes

Because it didn't work in the past and won't work now. If people didn't want their accounts banned, they shouldn't have been such incorrigible, unrepentant, Hell-bound motherfuckers.