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Riot is not banning you to force you to buy their products multiple times.

Marshbouy·1/8/2017, 1:50:15 AM·8 votes·990 views

Yes they are banning you for money, but it's not in the way that you expect. (they also are banning you for moral reasons but that's a larger gray area) A very large portion of the playerbase is not a fan of toxicity in the game, so if they had to choose between a moderated game and an unmoderated game, they would choose the moderated one. For example (made up numbers) LoL does not moderate, Smite does. A person who is new to MOBAs tries out league and runs into games where 8/9 people are toxic. This really puts them off the game but they like the MOBA style so they try Smite instead. They learn that Smite only has 2/9 people being toxic because of their moderation. This is unacceptable to Riot because they just lost a possible customer.

What some people of questionable intelligence think is that Riot bans you to force you to pay for the same content twice, this is just simply not true. They might say "Riot bans too many people too frequently", but if you play the game you know this isn't true. Way more people should be punished then currently are. Mistakes do happen. People who shouldn't be banned end up being banned. Of course they aren't even forcing you to pay for the same content. All they are doing is forcing you do adhere to basic rules in order to play their game.

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flibitydoo1/8/2017, 4:11:10 AM4 votes

One of the things that Riot Tryndamere (the ceo of Riot Games) has actually made a post/video about cyberbullying and he cares GREATLY about removing cyberbullying from the game.

and toxicity leads into that. He doesn't want it in his games He doesn't want players getting provoked to killing themselves which would blackmark his game as "a game that drives people to suicide/school shootings". No sane businessman would want that, no sane human would want that.

it's a pvp game, but the pvp should only be done by gameplay, not by words

Zenturian1/8/2017, 9:12:02 PM2 votes

It's not to "force you," but they know you'll likely rebuy things multiple times if you're toxic and really enjoy the game. It's a decision Riot is knowningly making with profit in mind. Follow the money instead of your White Knight "honor."

This Is Your Dad1/8/2017, 2:13:09 AM2 votes

I've been mean before, never got perma'd. I don't tell people to kill themselves though, or that their mother should have aborted them. I think that really helps my chances of not getting banned on "accident".

ModRito Wuks8/28/2017, 6:26:42 AM1 votes

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LordGeovanni1/8/2017, 8:16:05 PM1 votes

The same people who arent a fan of toxicity are highly toxic no body threathens to report more than toxic players but full reports never seem to have the full game chat context game play context considered or punish every toxic person in the particular game you shouldnt let toxic people slide because no one reported them if your stance is to clean up the game

Colton1471/8/2017, 7:05:54 AM1 votes

I definitely agree with the OP, as well as the second post. :)

I try to remain 100% positive in everything; very rarely would I become angry, but I really only become angry at someone who is bullying someone else - I protect the person being bullied.

During that time, so far, I have still been very respectful, yet still defending, so I do not get in trouble.

SourDeezNutts1/10/2017, 9:27:45 PM1 votes

they sure as hell dont mind keeping all the money you spent on their game after you get perma banned..... bunch of crooks. and cyber bullying would have to go on for longer than a 25 min game where you can mute someone.