Boards›Player Behavior

Toxicity towards new player

LimitedBladeWork··3 votes·584 views

I recently played a normal game and was paired with a very toxic player. I didn't do so well because I am just starting to play the game again after a long break. After being abused all game through chat he also added me and a friend afterwards to continually harass me. I am not playing the game for the first time and can say I am an averaged skilled player but if i was new to the game and was trying to learn how would i go about doing that seeing that if you play anything other than bots you will be hit with death threats every time you lose lane? Just wondering how Riot is addressing this issue since its been 6 years since I started playing and have never seen any improvement in the community. I would like to invite friends to play the game but I cant because I know how bad it is getting started in the game. The toxicity is one thing but having to unlock all champion took me 6 years and same with rune pages. Well I hope some of these issues can be resolved but I don't really expect anything since its has been 6 years with no improvement but thought I would post this anyways.

17 Comments

Troll Armada4 votes

Never add them as friends.

Not only will this allow them to continue the abuse, but my own theory is that the chat protocol used by riot has leaks which expose your IP address at worst, and at best is used by their cheat programs to ascertain when you are in a game queue.

Gary B Enkelis2 votes

I don't know about the cheating / IP thing, but that's a good idea about adding them allowing them to continue the abuse. They were abusive before adding them so why would they change after adding them? I mean maybe you become best pals....

Troll Armada1 votes

{quoted}

I don't know about the cheating / IP thing, but that's a good idea about adding them allowing them to continue the abuse. They were abusive before adding them so why would they change after adding them? I mean maybe you become best pals....

As I recall, I can't remember now, but as I recall once you added them, they got all they needed to stalk you, and removing them later wouldn't help...

It's been a while since I examined this, and Riot may have plugged this hole, who knows...

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

I think the chat bugs out and you can still message people who remove you from their list, if you have a chat open with them on your client. I'm not certain, and it probably stops working if you ever reset the client... So like at least every patch.

I don't know, though. Just a guess.

Troll Armada1 votes

{quoted}

I think the chat bugs out and you can still message people who remove you from their list, if you have a chat open with them on your client. I'm not certain, and it probably stops working if you ever reset the client... So like at least every patch.

I don't know, though. Just a guess.

The thing is, I could go all the way down the rabbit hole on these things, but I force myself not to, I program enough during the day and I don't want to examine, disassemble , analyze this stuff on a game I'm trying to play for fun...

....I offer what I learn here so as to help others realize what's really going down, some people are intentional charlatans and will deny everything I post. They literally have a stake in denial and my posts are dangerous to their profits.

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

That's too bad you don't want to put resources into this, because it could help a lot of people if Riot doesn't know and becomes informed. If it's actually a problem and not a theory.

Actually I'm being just as lazy by not asking Riot if people can still chat when you remove them but keep their chat window open. Maybe someone sees it here.

Troll Armada1 votes

{quoted}

That's too bad you don't want to put resources into this, because it could help a lot of people if Riot doesn't know and becomes informed. If it's actually a problem and not a theory.

Actually I'm being just as lazy by not asking Riot if people can still chat when you remove them but keep their chat window open. Maybe someone sees it here.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

Riot is free to msg me privately and hire me as a consultant. I'm not working for freee.

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

[zombie-nunu-tears]

Troll Armada1 votes

{quoted}

[zombie-nunu-tears]

You don't seem to get it. Riot already has some very smart people working for it. Many much smarter than myself. The fact that these resources aren't applied meaningfully should tell you something about their priorities.

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

I don't know.

Troll Armada2 votes

{quoted}

I don't know.

clearly

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

Maybe you have the winning idea that nobody thought of?

Itankyou2 votes

I'm sorry you met human scum in this game.

Telephone Booth2 votes

Ya I have a friend I tried getting to play this game and he quit shortly after level 30 cuz of the flaming lol. Granted he was especially slow at learning the game. Then I went to his house and played a game on his computer and realized his mouse is just a huge piece of shit. I told him stop playing until u get a new mouse wtf dude how can u play on that?! Cool story I know, I'm bored at work.

TheEvilQueen1351 votes

I started two and a half years ago and rarely encountered toxic people when i started normals, most were new like me and my friend or like us they were playing with a friend that was more experienced. Guess i got lucky... but i do think playing with a friend while learning is both comforting when someone toxic is there and helpful to the learning experience

Cat in the Wild1 votes

I think riot is going to implement the blizzard chat replacement thing pretty soon, it's basically replaced whatever toxic words they use to something funny. I hope this will help a bit. But I do agree with you that it is hard for new players, or any players to have fun in all the games they played. There is almost always toxic players around, unless you have really good teammates that understand and help you report that person for his toxicity, otherwise, just mute him and focus on game. Too bad, people often just don't care enough about the community, and all they care is about winning the game. =/

If you really like to have fun, mute all the players, focus only on game, and communicate through pings.

vv7eZjd8Pj1 votes

then play normals only and mute

More from Player Behavior

The indefinite banning of Tyler1
Player Behavior4,799 comments
2,942
votes
14 day ban because playing Nunu Support with Smite is "stealing other people's roles"...?
Player Behavior1,525 comments
1,086
votes
Riot should add monthly status cards
Player Behavior241 comments
843
votes
Reminder that we haven't gotten our Summoner report cards yet :/
Player Behavior145 comments
619
votes
I'm not "triggered" by you throwing insults.
Player Behavior361 comments
548
votes
Black Alistar, King Rammus!!!!
Player Behavior462 comments
503
votes

More by LimitedBladeWork

If Zed Q's then W's in a line W swaps automatically.
Report a Bug1 comments
1
votes