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Who actually tries to fix the league community?

ThatVietGuyuknow·12/9/2015, 10:50:58 AM·2 votes·731 views

We've had our fair share of griefers, afk's, trolls, ragers, etc. but who at Riot or other players actually care about their community where they actually TRY to fix the toxic atmosphere on this game? The only reason I even play this game anymore is because the skins that I've bought with the money invested in this game. I've had friends consider picking up this game, I said lets play, not even 3 games into playing they quit because even in bot games there have been toxic people, when they actually got to play real people, after 2 games they quit because they didn't even want to deal with the community, even the most seasoned players in diamond are trolls or people who buy accounts then rage and has this delusion of since they bought a higher tier account they know more, when they're actually someone in bronze who wanted a diamond border account. There have been games where the toxicity has been so high and yet no action is taken no matter how many people report the person, it takes about 3-4 games of a player being reported until someone does something over at Riot, but the racism, toxic behavior, and rage is apparently still in a game where they care more about the set amount of high level players like Challenger or LCS players, and spending more time on improving their esports scene instead of fixing a game that once use to be great, but now its barely fun when you have people being keyboard warriors and screen at you in caps and yelling at you for most likely something they did or fail to mention, such as a jungler not asking for help, and then raging at everyone when it was their fault. If the tribunal was ACTUALLY up, idk maybe 2 years by now (?) of maintenance Riot would have maybe even a prototype of the new tribunal system where we can actually get rid of these players and maybe make League not a sub-par game anymore? But Riot is more caring about esports than their own gaming community where most players are now going to other games like dota or quitting league entirely, which in my eyes is the best choice now.

13 Comments

buneter12/9/2015, 12:16:19 PM2 votes

I try to improve the community when someone flames at me or anyone on the team I give them one warning and tell them to stop it or I will afk. If they continue I afk. I hope next time they will realize that people aren't going to stand for toxic behavior. I have no idea if that works for the people I've done it on because I afk and I just stand there coming back every minute to move but not to read chat. Even if they apologized 100 times I don't care. I know everyone here is going to call me the problem but most afkers don't give a warning.

Battalion12/9/2015, 11:12:23 AM1 votes

There are plenty of people who want to see this game have a good community that isn't toxic. There's some issues that aren't able to be easily solved:

Is someone just falsely reporting due to a "counter attack" approach to someone who is reporting them, or as a group effort for "trolling".
Accounts that are made, sold, then used by these people just allows them to go through the process again. Sometimes they'll even just grind up another account being toxic all the way through.
The sheer amount of the reports that are received daily must be in the tens of thousands. With millions of players and hundreds of thousands of back-up accounts, there's just no real way to do a better job that what they've been doing.

I was lucky enough to grind through to the higher levels during Season 1, though I've still be exposed to toxicity every step of the way since then. That's the issue with today's culture, not so much the game's lack of action. Younger generation blah blah blah no discipline blah blah blah no age restriction etc. Truth of the matter is that Accounts should be bound to something more concrete than an email address. A credit card would keep the young, enraged masses out of the game, hopefully giving a more mature community. The problem is that this game has a business behind it who is constantly trying to grow, as businesses tend to do, and a business is very unlikely to alienate huge portions of their consumers. It's a shame, but this is the way League of Legends is now, there's very little we can actually do to solve this issue. All you can do is mute and report over and over, it's just a game of who gets tired first; the troll or you.

venomous frost12/9/2015, 11:18:57 AM1 votes

as long as this game is free to play, and anyone banned can create a new account free of charge, toxicity remains.

Another reason is because this is a team game, and one bad player can lose the game, people will result to blaming it on that person which is human nature.

also: use paragraphs, nobody will read that wall of text.

TheGodlyTwo12/9/2015, 12:53:04 PM1 votes

To improve things, simply encourage people. Take charge, coach (suggestively), BE NICE.

Saying something as simple as "Hey man, I like your confidence a lot! But maybe it wasn't a good idea to dive like that." or " I know you're having a rough time right now, just farm for now and you'll catch for sure." Rather than "Oh you're such a f***ing feeder, report this troll!"

I especially encourage that person when my team is ganging up on them. Many times the "bad player" will actually turn his game around, and the team starts changing their attitudes as well. Who knows how many AFK's were prevented cause of POSITIVITY.

I also never surrender and by all means and will do my best not to. If people are going to ruin my game as well as their own, then they deserve to wait as long as it takes till it's finished. This concept is also for the players that really aren't ready for ranked with the "gg, ff at 20" attitudes. It shows a lack of confidence in themselves. Lets face it, they joined a ranked match that people care about, they need to play it out so they can IMPROVE. No person ever improved by giving up! They can say "Oh, you're just wasting my time if you don't surrender." On the contrary, they're actually wasting 20 minutes of my time.

The nice thing about this is, so many epic games I've played where we did come back...and it's great to show people that they CAN do it.

Samus7212/9/2015, 1:21:22 PM1 votes

I just report the rule breakers. It's really all I can do.

I gave up on trying to be the positive leader a long time ago. People just don't seem to want that. Not online, they don't. "One bad apple..." Well, what about three hundred? Or a thousand? Eventually, I just got tired of the negativity of gamers and decided to keep a low profile. But still turn them in when they deserved it.

Lost R12/9/2015, 6:30:13 PM1 votes

The problem is you can't patch people, and people are so dependent on meta-game statistics and analysis that they completely dissociate themselves from their own performance and even the game itself in all the wrong ways. Their ego dominates their mindset and projects any failings towards anyone else, even if there's no way in hell that it's actually their fault. There's also the fact that a lot of people have multiple accounts. If one gets chat banned (or straight out banned), they'll just jump on another and unless they dumped a shitton of money into it, they won't really care. There's no serious, long term solution to fixing the problem, and people feel they can get away with being an incorrigible shitheel.

Right now the highest, most extreme case of cognitive dissonance and dissonance in general has infested the League community. Even the people who just go "report block and move on" are affected by it by believing these simple three steps will solve everything. It's demanding a salve be applied without actually judging how effective it really is, how long it takes to be effective, and ignoring any other countermeasures that can be applied. On top of that, it's trying to fix the problem after the problem has already happened and ballooned out of control.

Ultimately the problem is a human problem, and as I said before, it can't be patched. People have to learn to... well, they have to learn. They have to learn to adapt, to overcome difficult odds, to not depend so religiously on meta-game statistics, to overcome their soul-crushing defeatism, fatalism, cognitive dissonance, to practice vigilance and diligence, and curb their anger. The list goes on longer than that, much longer, MILES longer, and the longer it goes untreated, the worse the problems will get.