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To all my bronze comrades

Bish Please·2/5/2017, 1:20:18 PM·1 votes·338 views

Editorial

It's not easy out there, keep your head up and stay strong. What i'm going to write is my experience as the truth as a washed up player who maybe once was good. Is their a reason to be shamed as a bronze player? Does that really reflect your worth as a person?. I lived in NYC a few years ago, i was in the subway station on the way home, I lived in Far Rockaway, Queens at the time. It's the farthest point away from the city and late at night the trains go very very slow and you learn to have patience or the other option is to lose it. Anyway, walking to the train pad i saw 2 affluent young men from long island cornering a bum who was obviously insane. They were going to beat him for just living and the only person at that moment who was there was me, i mean it is NYC but i felt like i was the only man there. I was totally frozen, in the city you kind of just watch things and don't get involved and it was a behavior i learned from other people. I saw just how ugly people can really be to each other in that moment, 2 have's literally put the boots to the poor and defenseless. Finally 2 police came and broke it up, the other 2 guys were let go and the bum laying there bleeding while the cops radio for the ambulance.

That was some really serious stuff, I had never been a bully in my life and in fact I hated bullys. I never had been bullied myself, because I always fought bully's head on and would win most of the time. Knock 1 or 2 of them out and amazing they all stop talking.

I feel constantly cyber-bullied playing this game, the funny part is games were never intended to be this way. I grew up with nintendo in the 80's and it was just about fun. The reason i still play is most likely because of those experiences. I'm am an older man now 32, I have a family and a child and my play isn't what it used to be as I just don't have the focus with so much going on and I know my reflexes are what they used to be.

Should I really have to mute all every single game and instantly leave after game chat to avoid these people? I actually hate the players i play against as much as my team mates. Hate is a strong word but it leaves me no choice, nothing good ever comes out of in game chat.

The competitive nature of this game should draw some tension between players but its gone far beyond that, it's not light trash talk it's telling people to "kill yourself" and stuff like that. You see my generation can't relate. It wasn't like that for us.

So I know there are other disenfranchised players out there just trying to enjoy this game, we all cant be diamond players, thats why we have classes and some of us might not ever make it out of bronze, me personally I'm just fine where i am.

BUT

You have this incredible amount of cyber-bulling going on in games. It's really got to stop, so what if im bronze and so what if I am happy? It's akin in the league word to being "untouchable". It's basically systematic bigotry. Why does nobody stand up in games and try to help the guy getting bullied? Usually what happens is the poor guy gets ganged up on. I don't like this world we created, here in league and alot of players have turned away due to this yet we as a community will not change. I am guilty of this too, I have taken part in this attitude on others, it's so ugly and I am not proud of that.

I think it's time I lend out a hand to those who are under attack, their is a person on the other end who is just trying to find there place in happiness. I think if we can be at least mindful that a person sits on other end with feelings, we might be able to make a change we all want but nobody is willing to stand up for. Leave the cyber-bullying out of league.

3 Comments

Kei1432/5/2017, 1:33:59 PM2 votes

I've told the toxics that what they are saying isn't cool. They normally respond with STFU.

I've told the retaliation that they should stop fighting and focus on gameplay, and probably should mute the toxic. Sometimes it works, sometimes they continue flaming each other.

I've used divergence techniques such as the next 2 min game plan shot calling to try to focus them back on gameplay . sometimes it works some times it doesn't . especially in the bronze level where they have no idea how to wave control, but when the plan does work, it normally removes all toxicity in game in that moment.

Sometimes the flame war is beyond salvageable and end of the game, both the flamer and the retaliator get reported.

Bish Please2/5/2017, 2:55:09 PM1 votes

i just had a teammate tell the other team "gg ez". why i asked why he said that he replied my question doesnt matter i had the lowest damage and to stfu.