Alternative to banning accounts (just an idea)

Ralanr·Dec 8, 2015·2 votes·240 views

One of they biggest issues I see from banning accounts is that it hardly impedes a toxic player. They'll just make new accounts and make the leveling experience worse for new players. But what if instead of banning the account that has enough reports, the most played champion of that account is temporarily disabled for that account?

Now this probably won't be heavily effective against toxicity in the higher levels, but this may dissuade toxic players from grinding up from level one and making new players miserable in the process.

Really just a random idea. What do you all think?

12 Comments

ZielmannDec 8, 20152 votes

Forcing an already toxic player to use a champion they're possibly not actually good with is just going to make the experience miserable for everybody.

RalanrDec 8, 20151 votes

But isn't their a certain requirement to be met with a champion before playing them in ranked?

ZielmannDec 8, 20151 votes

No...

RalanrDec 8, 20151 votes

Really? Damn.

Whelp, that's one idea that doesn't work.

ZielmannDec 8, 20151 votes

Haha. Really though, I feel like whether it's ranked or not would be irrelevant. Not allowing somebody to play what is probably their best champion is only going to put that person's team on a disadvantage. And then the toxic player is probably going to not care about the game, or go in already frustrated that they can't play what they wanted to play. They're likely to start into the game already tilted because of it.

RalanrDec 8, 20151 votes

Isn't a toxic player always on tilt?

ZielmannDec 8, 20151 votes

Not necessarily, no. I think a lot of people just don't understand that their reaction to situations in-game are unacceptable. And even after a warning, they're basically selectively-blind to the fact that their behavior is wrong, so they continue without changing anything.

From back in the Tribunal days, I saw many instances where it appeared that the 'toxic' player was fine until a certain event in the game. Maybe they died. Maybe an ally died or did something dumb. Maybe dragon gets stolen. It wasn't until then that the player really goes off the rails.

SmokedAlmondsDec 8, 20151 votes

Its an interesting idea for sure. I think there would be the same concern with this as they have with just perma muting people. It will probably frustrate them further and cause them to be more toxic. It also doesn't really do much fix the problem you are wanting to because they could still create a new account to get that champion back.

RalanrDec 8, 20151 votes

Yeah but (and this is stupid now that I think about it) it would just be another grind. Really I think the punishments shouldn't motivate someone to just restart.

SmokedAlmondsDec 8, 20151 votes

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Yeah but (and this is stupid now that I think about it) it would just be another grind. Really I think the punishments shouldn't motivate someone to just restart.

Well, I dont think anyone wants them to restart. They want them to leave when they are perma banned. But since riot want to keep the game free to play there isn't really any effective way to keep them out. I wish I could see some numbers on how many perma banned players create new accounts. Obviously a lot do but I wonder if its anywhere near as many as we think do. IMO this was a much bigger deal before the systems' speed improved. 2 years ago it took significant longer to get punished at all, much less perma banned. Now many of those people who make new accounts probably wont even make it back to 30.

Colgate GatorDec 8, 20151 votes

And thus, they would get angsty and troll with other Champions as they demand their Champion back because "they earned it with their money" blah blah, but since that won't happen, they will keep trolling without further consequences.

Yeah, no.

KorilloDec 8, 20151 votes

They will continue to be toxic though, whether on the old account or the new account. Your recommendation does not solve the core issue.

At least banning the account sends a clear message. If they do decide to start another account, they risk getting it banned as well if they continue their behaviour.