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League community is making the game hard to play

nixons jowels·1/18/2017, 12:50:16 AM·3 votes·558 views

I'm sorry about this and i know this'll get lost but that doesn't really matter. I need to talk about something that has been happening with my experience with league. i apologize if this takes a while im trying to cover a lot.

I am not the brightest of people, in fact i have been diagnosed with minor mental retardation. so as you can imagine i'm a little slow with picking up on things and learning. i even spelled my summoner name wrong! (its jowls not jowels) But i'm not here to talk about that, it will just help you understand where im coming from. i was never really good at many things but a little over a year ago i found this game and i absolutely loved it, it was fairly easy to figure out and was so much fun. i loved the characters and their stories, and i just enjoyed playing. it took a while to get into but once i got it i hit the ground running, and thats a big deal with me, that doesnt happen very often. i mastered champions and found new ones, and once i got these new champions it would take me a good long while to figure them out, which i realized can be very aggravating for other players. and that's exactly what im here to talk about, in this game i try my hardest to be as supportive and as caring as possible to other players. i honestly think i've only ever said one bad thing to another player my entire league career. but i've realized that a very small percentage of players are trying to be nice, its about 1/14. and that really hurts, it's gotten to the point where i dont even like playing league, because everyone else is so mean to me no matter how well i do or what i say. i have gotten so many "kill yourself"s and "uninstall" that i cant even keep track, and im a decent player once i get the hang of things. it's gotten to the point where in a game when im not doing so well, my team AND the enemy team start berating me and i try to say im sorry and please be patient but it's terrible, and i try to surrender and get myself away from these people but they all say no so im stuck with them, and i cant quit or ill get reported and suspended. and sometimes i even get reported for intentional feeding when i really am trying my hardest. this is a constant thing with almost every game. and it's making me almost want to stop playing league of legends. i'd rather not do that, i've found something i'm good at and i love doing it but it's not really worth it when everyone else is telling me to kill myself and that im trash. and then there was a game a few days ago that was my breaking point, and is what brought me to the boards.

in a game where i was playing as thresh support and we were doing very well bot lane, throughout the whole game the enemy gangplank was constantly flaming his team in /all chat, saying things like "where the hell is the rest of my team" and "this nocturne sucks so much" and i thought that was pretty rude so eventually i told him he should be more supportive of his team, telling them they suck isn't gonna make them any better. and he asked "how will they know they're awful then?" and i said, maybe you should instead of just yelling at them give them tips to improve. at this point 3/5 of my team started yelling at me to shut up and even called me names, and then the enemy team started yelling at me, and i didnt understand why. and then the gangplank said something to me that just crushed me. "what? are you slow on purpose?" and so i said nothing, i played the game to completion and until we won, in total and utter desperation, i wish i could've left, for the entire rest of the game everyone wouldnt stop saying terrible things to me, and i think i did rather well. and when it ended it dawned on me.

no matter what i do, no matter what i say, i cant make this community nice.

so i guess the point of this is maybe a way to quit out of a hostile game and appeal to support staff to have the quit be excused and have the summoners be punished, i think that would be helpful. im not sure, im sorry this is so long i just feel like it needed to be said, i'm still debating whether or not to continue playing, oh well.

GLHF - a concerned summoner

4 Comments

deathgod51/18/2017, 1:30:38 AM4 votes

eventually we all have to deal with the assholes of this game if you have to deal with I personally keep up a few rules regarding identifying and handling the worst of our community.

Mute is holy There are assholes who won't stop being assholes, I mute them, no exceptions. There is no reasoning with them, as you can consider the personality they have taken on for this game is being a horrible person. If you don't know the league of legends mute function yet, learn how to, not having to see them talk helps a lot.

keep conversation level low I would suggest to generally not chat with negative people, they are not in the best state of mind, they are only flaming at that point. In case of the gankplank you mentioned for example: he is a high level bastard that decides to make other players feel bad because he feels bad.

if getting behind use sentences like: "sorry I am not playing well because the champion is new to me", never elaborate, if people are toxic still, mute them.

report them players like this gankplank you mentioned will get banned. Then they will be punished for being horrible. They will probably come to this board to complain for one last time in a way that is writen way more horrible then this post you made(which is actually well written). This way we remove the toxic players one at the time.