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Riot has all sorts of teams except a psychologist one

Rekkon·11/27/2018, 8:04:53 AM·2 votes·2,379 views

I am truly serious when I say that, given how they handle player behavior. "Once toxic, always toxic unless you fall on your knees and buy our skins" is their motto.

Being toxic and flaming someone who deserves it? Not only will they be punished, but your account status will be degraded and therefore be more frequently matched with players like you. Creating two toxic players from one. The likelihood of this is extremely high, therefore reducing the healthy playerbase.

A much more preferable solution would be to independently match toxic players with healthy, anti-toxic players. Failure to comfort to their behavior should effectively and logically result in suspension. That's when a player proves how toxic they are.

From a personal example, I've noticed that being just as little toxic as saying a bad word in the chat will make you have all sorts of non-good players in the next game, for whatever reason in whichever team, but more likely in yours. No, Riot, I don't wanna see how it felt being flamed, I want to see how it feels to have a team that doesn't always impede my way to enjoying the game. Despite the gameplay itself being somewhat toxic, the least I wanted is toxic players too.

P.S. Nerf Irelia.

11 Comments

AeroWaffle11/27/2018, 8:16:51 AM16 votes

"Once toxic, always toxic unless you fall on your knees and buy our skins" is their motto.

Whether or not you're punished has nothing to do with how much money you've spent or are going to spend on the game. I would like to see some legitimate sources that show otherwise.

Not only will they be punished, but your account status will be degraded and therefore be more frequently matched with players like you.

I would love to see some sources for this as well.

Umbral Regent11/27/2018, 4:04:04 PM5 votes

I am truly serious when I say that, given how they handle player behavior. "Once toxic, always toxic unless you fall on your knees and buy our skins" is their motto.

Considering how many people I've seen who've been justly banned and complain that they spent however-many-hundred dollars on skins and the like, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you don't know what you're talking about.

Riot has never and will never offer punishment forgiveness to players who buy skins. Where on earth you got that idea, I'll never know, but I can at least know that it's false.

Being toxic and flaming someone who deserves it? Not only will they be punished, but your account status will be degraded and therefore be more frequently matched with players like you. Creating two toxic players from one. The likelihood of this is extremely high, therefore reducing the healthy playerbase.

First of all, you forgot to add quotation marks around "deserves it". If someone is being toxic, they deserve punishment, sure, but you're neither the judge nor arbiter of said punishment. And in acting like you are, you wind up deserving of just as much punishment as them.

Second, your hypothesis, curiously, goes against Riot's stance regarding the Prisoner's Island concept. So, either you have some insider information (horrendously unlikely), or, as before, you don't know what you're talking about.

A much more preferable solution would be to independently match toxic players with healthy, anti-toxic players. Failure to comfort to their behavior should effectively and logically result in suspension. That's when a player proves how toxic they are.

This is assuming that punishable behavior/behavior in general somehow tampers with matchmaking.

It doesn't.

EvilDustMan11/27/2018, 3:59:01 PM4 votes

Everything about this is just wrong

AhriTentacleToy11/27/2018, 3:57:36 PM3 votes

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Telephone Booth11/28/2018, 3:32:01 AM1 votes

Why the fuck would they need a team of psychologists? Lol. Sounds like you might need one if that's your concern.

Papuga11/28/2018, 1:15:11 PM1 votes

I would just like to point out that the only person in the way of enjoying your games is you, not your teammates.

Your happiness and enjoyment of League in your own hands. You can chose to enjoy it or you can chose to have a negative attitude and not dislike your gameplay experience.

At the end of the day true happiness is an internal choice and not conditional on outside factors. Focus on what's going on inside before blaming those around you.