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feeders, afks, and ranked

Cthulhu Ryleh·4/27/2016, 8:11:15 AM·2 votes·607 views

i get it. LoL is an online video game. LoL gives us norms and ranked. its either competitive or not. except it's always competitive. thats the nature of a game designed to pit players against other players. so, frankly, distinguishing between "norms" and "ranked" means very little. I'm writing this from the perspective of a player who seems to be permanently stuck in bronze. i'm not terrible. i'm not great. clearly not even platinum. maybe gold. in all likelihood silver. idk. but thats a personal assessment of my own skill. i have friends who also think that i'm better than my rank. whatever. thats all subjective. here's my real point. i play a lot of games in bronze. cause im bronze. i get tons of teammates who go afk. i get tons of teammates who have no idea what they're doing. i get tons of teammates who get pissed and start feeding like they work at a zoo or some nonesense. this is the inherent flaw of online/communal gaming. not everyone takes it seriously. riot. if you are committed to having a ranked system and making this a competitive game i fully believe you need to address feeders and afks. i get it. sometimes there are technical problems and it screws you over, it screws your team over. it wrecks a game. that happens to the best of us. but when there's a game and a player is "drunk and lonely" so he intentionally tanks a game. the guy needs a perma ban. ive been drunk and lonely. i know how that feels. intimately. and although my heart goes out to him on that level HE FREAKING TANKED MY GAME. deal with your personal shit elsewhere. LoL is not the place to take all your nonsense out on the rest of us. but I lose lp for it. just because i had the bad luck of your match making algorithm matching me up with this poor sod. i know there's no way for you to weed dudes like this out before hand. that's insane. but for the love of god at least take reports of guys like this seriously. perma bans. instantly. 4 players lose lp because 1 player is having a rough day. thats BS. and i know thats just part and parcel with online gaming. there's a certain amount of that kind of thing that's going to happen. but for as long as i've been playing this game, and i'm a regular reporter (not just cause im a butt hurt player, but because the reporting system is there so we, as a community, can make this game better) and i've only every seen the "such and such a player has been banned because of your, and others, reports" message once. RIOT! please take these things more seriously. i also understand that banning isn't actually in your interest. the more accounts you ban the more potential income you jeopardize. i get it. i do. you're a business. and you're not in the business of denying customers access to your services. but if you're really committed to produced a quality, competitive game you need to address these problems. in the name of potential future revenue. long term gamers/subscribers (even those of use who aren't any good but still pay a lot of money for premium content because we enjoy the game so much) would like these issues resolved. i get it. i'm only probably silver at best. but because this game doesn't accurately match skill levels for games and because terribly toxic players continue to be active in the ranked Q's, I, and many players like me, are stuck in games where we are the only players taking the game seriously. I understand players who don't have the skill. I understand players who don't have the experience. I even understand players who have taken a bong rip or two too many. i get that i do. but i don't understand players who intentionally tank games. i don't understand how riot can continue to support players like this, even though they are likely to be paying customers, when customers/players who do take this game seriously continue to be punished. RANT OVER.

3 Comments

Troll Armada4/27/2016, 9:11:18 AM1 votes

Dude, I feel your pain, I just made a post about this: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/TMxoOi9Y-im-concerned-trolling-quality-down-across-all-ranked-tiers-zero-effort-trolling-is-norm

What gets me isn't even the actual trolling, it's the same formulaic trolling, which gets them through game after game after game without consequence.

I don't know when my own tipping point will occur, but there is a point, where the graph of ranked gameplay credibility goes below my enjoyment of just playing. I sure hope riot has some smart people working to avert this from happening. because i imagine, it would happen to lots of people in a relatively short time frame, and by that point, it will be too late....

vladerag4/27/2016, 4:44:42 PM1 votes

The best advice i can give you is... go play starcraft.

The community is nicer, people who troll hand you wins because it is inherently a 1v1 game, you will never be stuck in a game for fear of reports, bans, or frustration...

The thing is, in a team game these problems cant really ever be totally addressed. The bottom leauges will be filled with people who care far less than those in upper leauges and overall it is difficult to see the reason not to afk and troll if things arent going your way.

"Top lane goes 0/10/0 in 10 minutes? well looks like im going to go play some fallout 4. peace."

That is an actual line of chat ive seen. and on a simple level its difficult to blame the player for that. You cant just "quit" a leauge game without punishment, so anyone who actually cares is stuck there. At the same time, those punishments arent severe enough to matter to a lot of players.

However, having said all that, I can tell you that you can get out of bronze. A lot of people are in your position, but while you might have a bad streak of games, overall if you are silver you will eventually get there. on average, most people dont afk and afks are fairly evenly distributed when they do happen. In other words, afks are less likely than a clean game and they could just as easily happen to your opponent.

A good way to counteract this kind of trouble is to play someone high impact in a high impact roll. Get really good at Vi jungle and just gank until every lane is fed. Or get really good at a pick support like thresh, blitz or bard.

Or, if all else fails, play karthus. It doesnt matter how much the lanes scream "HE ESCAPED WITH LIKE 10 HP EKKO OP" if you can just ult and clean up the mess.

Cthulhu Ryleh4/28/2016, 12:25:55 AM1 votes

i appreciate the advice/sympathies. more than anything i was just really tilted when i wrote this. i know riot can only do so much to adjust the game and address these problems. and of course there's a certain amount of this that's just going to happen. it's just super frustrating. i guess i just needed to vent. it's good to know im not alone and that there are plenty of decent players out there. i know the type i'm complaining about are the minority. thanks y'all!