People who repeatedly spam the surrender button should be permabanned

Lost R·May 20, 2018·1 votes·1,163 views

This defeatist culture that has been growing rapidly in the community got out of hand years ago. Now it's getting even worse. Not a single game goes by now without at least three different people spamming the surrender vote as soon as it becomes available, no matter the state of the game. It's encouraging people to just give up before the game even has a chance to begin, and now you have throngs of people who have outright fetishized surrendering.

I am beyond sick and tired of seeing people salivating over just the thought of surrendering, craving it every second of every day, pining for it as their grandest ambition in life. It needs to be punished, because this growing culture of defeatism is sabotaging not just entire divisions, but entire populations.

13 Comments

Has No TeamMay 20, 20184 votes

Actually there is a timer for the purpose of it not being spammable. The person is allowed to assert that they think it's unwinnable/lost. This is the same as your right to hit no. Easy day.

Lost RMay 20, 20181 votes

Everyone says every game is unwinnable every second of every minute of every day, and then manufactures a situation that allows the enemy to run roughshod over them.

It needs to be punished, because nobody seems to be actually playing the game anymore.

Has No TeamMay 20, 20182 votes

Then maybe you should mute everyone.... Hit no to surrender and make them want to back you instead of hitting the surr option every three minutes.

Lost RMay 20, 20181 votes

Everyone already mutes everyone. I have no obligation to mimic such petty bullshit.

I lead by example by ironclad determination, but aside from being a gravely overworked support, what I've discovered in this community is a subculture where the express purpose is to experience the despair of failure. Like I said, there are salivating masses that crave the moment they can surrender; it is their only goal and ambition. There is no negotiating with "people" like that.

Has No TeamMay 20, 20182 votes

Okay... So take this "ironclad determination" and learn to play a role where you can carry then. Take the game in to your hands and make your team follow you... Or keep playing Lulu.... Up to you but still i think you're doing yourself a great disservice playing support if this is how you feel.

Lost RMay 20, 20181 votes

I have. I've had several hundred games sabotaged in the past because the person who is autofilled as the support autotilts themselves and sabotages the game while screaming obscenities that are guaranteed to get themselves permabanned. Because getting permabanned in their eyes is infinitely favorable to being support for even a microsecond.

Has No TeamMay 20, 20182 votes

Then play a different game ?

Edit: Not trolling but it seems there is no answer for your issue aside from this.

Lost RMay 20, 20181 votes

I have, and I do. I spent half a year away from the game because at some point, less than half of the players on each team were actually playing. The rest were just sitting in the fountain complaining about how shit the game is. I came back last month and the situation has only gotten worse.

I actually enjoy the game, but this ultra-defeatist movement is actively trying to bring the game down with their obsession with feeling as much despair as possible.

WukongMainMay 20, 20183 votes

or they just played so many games they know that no matter how hard they fight against the snowball defeat will occur in the next 20 minutes. so they want to ff before the next 20 minutes happens so they can get into the next game sooner and actually have a chance of winning.

Lost RMay 20, 20181 votes

Or they can actually play the fucking game for once in their life, rather than kick the can repeatedly down the road and waste months of their lives waiting for that one game where they can live out their Yasuo-based power fantasies.

VindicatorOFTheyMay 20, 20183 votes

The surrender has 3 min cooldown .. it cant be spammed xd

WukongMainMay 20, 20182 votes

honestly. i blame the snowballyness of league of legends in recent years. nobody wants to play vs champions that can kill their entire health bar before they can even take out 25% of theirs.

Lost RMay 20, 20181 votes

The community's only response to assassins is, has ever been and will only ever be to try and beat them down in a straight up slugfest, which doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work. Hell, there have been several dozen threads in the past few weeks trying to get rid of crowd control from supports outright because they ruin assassins so goddamn much.

But that's what you get from a community that doesn't actually think about the game's mechanics and base all their decisions on groupthink and misreading statistics they don't understand.