Why I think your addiction isn't Riot's problem when you are banned

This Is Your Dad··4 votes·522 views

A F2P game with thousands of employees and regular legal and technical maintenance requires a source of income. Skins are almost the only source of income Riot gets. They are almost purely cosmetic (only a few seem to make abilities hard to read or make you feel more threatened). You don't ever have to buy a single skin to play the game.

  1. New skins are released every few days, and they're becoming better and better looking. There's no reason to force you to buy the same skins over again if they're constantly producing new ones.
  2. Many opportunities exist for you to attain free skins and emotes through chests. This offsets the negatives from having microtransactions/gambling in the game.
  3. Nothing from the loot chests or purchasable content adds any advantage to your skills or abilities. There's no reason for you to buy a skin unless you like it.
  4. Almost every ban here has been a justifiable ban. You violated the ToS. You call Riot a corrupt company in the same sentence that you ask why money doesn't make you exempt from the rules.
  5. Addiction can occur over any product. I could be addicted to ice cream and become fat and have medical problems from consuming it. But it doesn't actually have a withdrawal effect and the addiction manifests because it is replacing some other part of my life that I'm unhappy about. It is your responsibility as a consumer to not become addicted so long as the goal of the product was not to allow you to become addicted.

Instead of burrowing yourself in misery, seek actual help. People will always give you the tools to fix your behavior, so long as you are willing to use them. Thanks!

7 Comments

themachamp2 votes

Its easy to violate the tos when the tos is basically....."we can take anything away from you at anytime".

Modi2 votes

Welcome to the world of clicking "I Agree". Basically, when you do this for any (and I mean any) service, you are signing away many of your rights.

This Is Your Dad1 votes

It actually sounds worse than it really is. Riot can legally do a lot of things they'd probably never WANT to do because it's bad business. Look at what's happening with EA. The only thing offsetting declining sales are the people spending 2100 to unlock everything. So long as consumers have some semblance of intelligence a company can't get away with bad business practices. It's when people stop thinking for themselves that it becomes an issue.

Dying Instinct2 votes

If you are unhappy about the terms, don't click that you agree. Honestly, you have no "right" to hold a league account if you are ruining the game for tons of other people. Really, the game is better without those people and Riot has no responsibility to feel guilty about denying toxic people the ability to vent their anger on others in league.

Modi1 votes

Me? I was merely stating that so many people click "I agree" without ever reading any of the contract to which they are agreeing. I am fully aware that I have no right to play; such is the case with all services I consume.

I have never (as far as I can remember) been punished for toxic chat, inting, or other forms of trolling. This is my only non-PBE account, which I have been playing on since fall 2011 (and my PBE account is new since the reopen of signups).

I cannot say I haven't ruined games, though. I am pretty bad, which is why I don't play ranked. I don't want to inflict myself onto the world of competitive play.

Dying Instinct1 votes

I used "you" as a general way of addressing, not you specifically. Totally understand that it wasn't too clear, especially since it was a reply to one of your comments. Same reason I used "those people", i wasnt addressing you specifically but people in general that complain about the fact that a game has terms which they most of the time haven't even read. Riot owns the game, they make the terms. It's up to people to decide if they want to play according to those terms or not, but it's not like it's a human right to hold a league account, especially when you are being toxic to other people.

Alimentateur1 votes

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