This game is free to play. EVERYONE knows when someone is "permabanned" they just either 1) buy another account 2) create another account. This creates an environment where people have multiple smurf accounts. Get rid of permabanning and chat restrictions and just do a scaling ban system that starts at one day and doubles from there or start linking accounts to phone numbers to prevent the amount of smurfing going on in this game.
or 3) leave the game
They have already tried the scaling system before, but it simply doesn't work Enough is enough. If you can't respect the rules, riot doesn't want you to play their game Getting permabanned still means that you're losing your time, effort and money And multiple people do quit after being perma banned, which is what riot wants
Of course!
Everyone that pops into these boards claiming that they're done with the game after being banned are just lying! Everyone loves jumping right back into a game from scratch after losing all their content that often took hundreds or thousands of hours to accrue, and sometimes even cost money!
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It's a punishment, genius. It doesn't matter if they come back, if they're a VERY serious issue I think I remember Riot giving IP bans before. If not, they have to start a new account or leave the game and that's the punishment.
The ability to play on a new account doesn't negate the benefits of permabanning toxic players. If every single one of them did that, then it would at least be a minor punishment, taking away their unlocked skins, icons, champs, and so on. Any who don't do that are removed from the game and the problem is solved in at least those instances. Quite frankly, Riot and 99.994% of the playerbase (people without permabans, according to Riot's figures on this, which I see no reason to doubt) don't give one whit for how permabanned players feel about being ejected from the game for consistently appalling behavior. Most permabanned players stop playing the game. It's extremely rare for a permabanned player to be so oblivious and/or unbalanced that they accumulate multiple permabans on a series of accounts. Riot does not have the wherewithal to prevent that except when a highly-visible player (such as a popular streamer) engages in this behavior, in which case they may issue an ID ban (Riot employees manually ban any account that such a player is seen to use).
