Im not sure its possible to justify a permanent account ban when you could just permaban the chat function. people pay money for skins. ban account means no skins. taking peoples money and not delivering aint right. neither is flaming, but you can only flame if you have a chat function. so dont remove the entire account. just remove abused game feature.
Simply put, permanent chat bans were tested and found to not work.
Because people salty enough to earn a permanent ban may resort to other methods if they can't express their generic futile rage through chat.
Oh sure, people say 'I wouldn't' but they usually say that after they've been permabanned.
They tried that already with infinitely stacking chat restrictions. Players just used their limited chat to keep flaming.
Full out chat ban would likely result in people saying "hey, I suck at support, I'm going to swap roles with you" and there'd be nothing they could do about it. Even if you allow champion select chat, someone will "accidently" lock in a champion that is better at a role and have the chat banned player go a different role.
As others have said, it's a recipe for other, worse problems.
Toxic players do not deserve to enjoy the privilege of playing League. If they lose $10,000, so be it. That's entirely their fault.
Back with the Old Tribunal, people would stack up thousands of games worth of chat restrictions, essentially perma muting accounts. When people did this, they were more likely to feed and to troll instead of being toxic in chat.
because you don't buy the skins to own, you pay riot for the using rights of a skin, like movies or bowling shoes. and riot has tried indefinitely stacking chat bans, and when people couldnt chat they griefed instead.
If you can't behave like a decent human being in a video game, you really don't deserve to even play that game.
Because people that have been perma banned don't deserve to play the game and will just intentionally feed. I've had a perma ban the system is completely fair
valid point but riot just doesnt want those people to play their game i suppose
people pay money for skins. ban account means no skins.
People also click through without reading the terms and agreements that state they give Riot consent to remove or block their account at any time.
You buy a toy (skin) your Break the toy by using it wrong (breaking the summoners Code) you can't play with your toy anymore (Ban). If people can't Flame through Chat they Start Ping spamming or trolling. Also Flame destroys other peoples game experience so you are getting punished. Taking Chat away is more of a stopping further Flame than a punishment
because then you'll make a new account and buy more skins/etc which equals a higher profit for them :3
You can flame with pings, intentional feeding, report system, etc. At some point, some people just don't deserve to play the game. And they were given MORE than enough warning. It was their fault they lost skins and runes
They basically used to. Riot claims it didn't really work.
the purpose of a permaban is to stop them from playing the game, and not continue playing.
i.e, make them frustrated enough to have them leave LoL.
Easy solution. Just dont flame.
