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Community Behaviour

Kaliska·1/17/2017, 4:56:40 AM·3 votes·579 views

> * "You Need To Kill Yourself."

  • "You Bought Veigar So I Can Tell You Have Autism."
  • "Go Cut Yourself."
  • "I Hope You Get Cancer."

Four of the many things that have been said to others or myself in a game. Many people that I know who play league, struggle with self harm, depression, or suicide. Many of these people also have people close to them who are struggling with physical disabilities or cancer.

Now I understand that League of Legends is a frustrating game, I myself often get frustrated but what I don't understand, is why some people use these terms. How does it benefit you? Does it make you feel better about yourself when you tell someone to kill themselves? League for me is an escape, where I can forget about the bad things in life and for many others it is the same. Yet people have to bring these hurtful words into an amazing game, it substantially changes a teams ability when there is a negative player harassing someone, even if it isn't you who is being targeted. It brings not only the victim but the whole team down.

Should something be done? Should players who do struggle with self harm or mental illness' be forced to stop playing the game because the community pushes them to relapse? Should riot educate the community better about verbal abuse or harassment?

Simply because I do not think it should be tolerated and I have played league for four years and I have not seen a change in the league of legends community I would like something to be done if possible.

5 Comments

Methanier1/17/2017, 6:30:22 AM2 votes

Of all the games I've played that had online aspects I feel league is bar far and above the most toxic community I've ever been a part of. The big problem is like Anti Teemo said. The worst proponents of toxicity usually have multiple accounts. The fact the game is free makes having access to multiple accounts extremely easy. Granted many people do spend hundreds of dollars on RP for skins and what have you. The account itself cost nothing to start. I think this is why some don't even care if they get an account banned. I have a friend whom I won't name who's had two accounts banned now, and trust me he hasn't learned. I feel that the only solution for players that don't learn after the first ban should be an IP ban but riot won't do this.

You can't even give someone constructive criticism in this community. If you make even the slightest remark towards someones gameplay it starts the toxic train. I've been in game that we were playing terribly early but because no one said a word or negative comment and just played the game we were able to come back and at least make it a competitive game and not a complete stomp. There truly does need to be more beyond what is currently being done for toxic players, what exactly that is though is hard to say. I've been playing this game for about 5 years now, but it's starting to get to the point where I'm not having fun anymore due to the frequency of toxic players.

WoonStruck1/17/2017, 6:33:28 AM2 votes

I know this is more of an exception, rather than a rule, but from all of the games between gold and diamond I've been in, rarely is anybody toxic. They're all pretty accommodating overall.

When I queue for normals/flex with my bronze/silver friends on a smurf, its a whole other world. I do not envy the average player's community experience.

Magical Player1/17/2017, 5:50:30 AM1 votes

Uhh league already does things about that

This Is Your Dad1/17/2017, 6:20:07 AM1 votes

The only thing that would actually stop them is an ip address trace and knock on the door but.... it's just not feasible to do this. The only thing you really can do is make them start a new account from scratch or buy one from account sellers. I will also add that I find toxic people to have the most "smurf accounts" because then when they get a ban they hop over to another account and troll again. So the reason many players appear toxic is the toxic people have multiple accounts... at least in my experience.