So whats the deal with people who intentionally feed?

Żoom·Feb 23, 2017·5 votes·1,525 views

About 1 out of 3 games I get the person who loses lane or thinks the teams gone down hill and starts yoloing and intentionally feeding. This happens too often now that I'm here actually writing a post about it. I get the messages about warnings for people who are verbally abusive, but what about people who legit go in 1v5's and purposely die? I'm aware how hard it is to prove, but if chat logs are saved and they're admitting right there they are feeding cause they don't care? I get too many of these games to hear that this system is working since if it was people would be scared to ruin the game for everyone else. I don't get to play much since I work a lot and this is just a terrible way to keep playing and quite honestly a huge waste of time whether we would have won or not since it just defeats the whole purpose of the game.

6 Comments

MUSHROOM MIDGETFeb 23, 20171 votes

i believe it is a side effect of matchmaking.

essentially in a matchmaking system if you win you get harder games and if you lose you get easier games. when you get frustrated and feel like the games are too hard for you, it is normal to want to lose a few so you can get to easier games.

what faster way to accomplish that than to intentionally feed?

i see the same kind of behaviour in overwatch, clash of clans, even chess. all matchmaking systems. i run into people in chess who make 1 move then resign. they are lowering their mmr so they can play easier games.

ŻoomFeb 23, 20171 votes

I think anyone knows matchmaking has its ups and downs, but still they should make something like GTA 5 did where intentionally feeders go into a cheaters or unsportsmanlike lobby where all them can gather and they have a game limit in the lower priority queue or a certain amount of wins. I personally was in the GTA 5 cheater lobby and it wasn't fun getting blown up by tanks every second I can assure you

MUSHROOM MIDGETFeb 23, 20171 votes

yeah they probably should. but like you said before it is usually hard to prove intentional feeding.

even if they start punishing the people who say right out what they are doing, (and i think they do when they can) all they will accomplish is to make people stop announcing it. if people want to lose they are going to find ways to lose. i really dont think there is any way to stop it. and matchmaking rewards losing.

as long as there is matchmaking you will get people trying to lose.

Ada WongFeb 23, 20173 votes

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i believe it is a side effect of matchmaking.

essentially in a matchmaking system if you win you get harder games and if you lose you get easier games. when you get frustrated and feel like the games are too hard for you, it is normal to want to lose a few so you can get to easier games.

what faster way to accomplish that than to intentionally feed?

i see the same kind of behaviour in overwatch, clash of clans, even chess. all matchmaking systems. i run into people in chess who make 1 move then resign. they are lowering their mmr so they can play easier games.

It is a side effect of Match-Making...

I tried 2 matches today (Both I went highly negative) because the idiot decided to be a douche run into my lane in both games with pings they were going in and not commit to the fight when fact is IF they stayed out the game would have went better, I think one problem not all problems is teaching junglers (HOW TO GANK) and (WHAT GANK MEANS) not just to run into lanes without using their brains and yelling (FLASH DOWN) I am so sick of this shit its not as bad if it happens mid game, but people are doing this before level 6 and off-setting peoples game-play very hard, and it angers me...

The same people followed me into a 3rd game after, and were using racist slurs in chat thankfully the game was forefeit because there was an afk on the enemy team.

Rank Means Nothing In Solo Queue

I don't give 2 cents if someone is Bronze or Challenger

What I give 2 cents about is if people (Think the same way) and act the same way without causing games to be thrown very early.

This doesn't only apply to League, but DOTA 2, and Over Watch ive ran into some pretty awful games in both where peeps don't think the same way which results in people yelling at each-other, or causing throws / tilt very early into a game in situations where you absolutely don't want it, not because you can't come back from such, But 4 other people on your team are just that stupid, and you don't got all day to explain to them (EXACTLY what they need to do) because you have to draw a map and show them where to go and what to do like seriously...

Other times its great, like yesterday in Over Watch, I ran into a pre-made team of 3 players won 2, lost 1 before everyone went to bed.

ŻoomFeb 24, 20171 votes

Sorry to hear that. This season my goal was to finally achieve gold 5 and actually play rankeds after a year of practicing and bronze took me a week to get out of from bronze 4 to silver 1. Now its taking me a month to stay in silver 4 because of continuous demotions. Bronze was nice to carry out of, but silver is impossible even as a duo. You try to communicate with the team and personally I get told "Focus tank" and can argue thats the wrong way of thinking but everyone's a know it all. Rarely you get teams who actually cooperate and listen since you're too busy trying to farm and get kills to win for your team a bit. They will call a baron in the middle of a game when everyones alive and its risky and just completely get cocky and throw. So hard to find good teams these days and from diamond peoples perspective its apparently more rough to win in silver elo than diamond since silver is either really new people or people who think they know it all. Such a shame