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Whats the Point?

MidnightGlaceon·2/12/2018, 3:32:46 PM·1 votes·321 views

I've been playing league for a long ass time now, and it was the first MOBA I ever played. I fell in love with the game in my early levels and ended up spending a lot of time and money on the game, alone and with friends. However, the game has always been plagued with flamers, and people who genuinely ruin the experience. I've always tried to mute flamers and ignore them to the best of my ability, but after 5 long years of playing this game I'm really considering giving up for good.

As I understand it, there's a new system for dealing with bad behaviour and a lot of people who regularly reply to these posts on the boards claim it works as intended. I simply don't see how this can be the case. In my experience every second game has at least one person that flames the entire way through, usually unprovoked. I regularly see people being flamed in the most disgusting manner for the most idiotic reasons (for example, just two days ago in an ARAM a gold LuLu player made rape threats against a friend of mine because my friends heal didn't save them). This has lead to my own problems with behaviour, as some of the disgusting comments of seen have really riled me up despite my best efforts.

This just isn't good enough. And the excuses that people like to post on here, such as 'stop focusing on what players type and just mute them' isn't good enough. No one should be threatened with violence or rape, no one should experience misogyny or racism or homophobia because of a MOBA. And no one should be made feel like its their responsibility to put up with this kind of crap either. League needs to do better.

4 Comments

Jo0o2/12/2018, 4:02:18 PM4 votes

The "working as intended" angle is because the system is essentially reactive. There's no way to predict who is going to make a disgusting threat like that, but it absolutely is something that the system would aggressively punish after the fact.

Ultimately, I think the culprit is a combination of a MOBA's tendency to provoke aggressive chat and the Free-To-Play model. Riot provides realistic, scaling punishments for abuse of other players, as well as decent rewards for good behavior, and overall I'm a fan of the system on paper. In practice, folks who get toxic in chat, given the penalties for doing so and the rewards for keeping your cool, are idiots. It's hard to make a behavioral system idiot-proof, just as the real-world law systems in most countries don't prevent idiots from breaking the law.

Edit: I say "ultimately" too much.

Syradanuirgis2/12/2018, 7:18:59 PM3 votes

I have 2 suggestions for you

  1. Mute them
  2. Grow a pair of balls
Kaioko2/12/2018, 7:32:25 PM2 votes

"League needs to do better." And what exactly is your suggestion to do so? They've implemented a report system, a mute system, a queue delay system, an IFS, and so much more. They have moderators who spend days reviewing punishments that get escalated to two weeks and permanent, they have a whole section of the forum dedicated to player behavior.

The only thing you've done is come on here and complained without offering a valid solution. At the end of the day people are people and if you're going to play in a competitive environment online, you need to accept that these types of comments are going to be made. League will try to minimize the amount, but they will never be able to do so completely.