Group Abuse

Abraxis·10/7/2017, 9:39:28 AM·2 votes·482 views

I posted about this probably 5 years ago and it is still a problem and this new system I think only makes it worse. Climbing the new honour system was fine, I don't know maybe I got lucky? I shot straight up to honour 4 with great positive people, like a week of joking around and winning. But now that I'm in Honour 4 it's like I only get paired with premades of toxic players who just gang up and abuse me for their mistakes so they don't have to face that they're each-other's problem. I'm a support main, because I like to help my team and elevate us all, but I can't do this when I'm a pariah right off the bat because these reprobates need a whipping boy to get along with each-other.

Anyways, it's at the point now where I'm like, fuck this. You know? I don't get why I need to play out a game with toxic people. I'll stick around if there is even one person on my team not saying anything, but when everyone's just raging what's the point? No one is watching the map, no one is ready for plays, people are obviously pulling their abilities to just let you die to try and prove their point... I can see it happening right there in front of me and I'm bored of it -and I'm annoyed with it.

You guys need to figure out a way to sort out who casts the first stone, because it's ridiculous to expect a peaceful solo-queue support main to just suck it up every other game and take this abuse. It's not fun, and it's not healthy. How am I getting into these teams at this honour rating?

edit: It's only groups. other solo-queue players are fine for the most part. It is specifically groups that do this. I suspect it's because you do not properly weight groups of friends abusing the honours. So while 4 people will always honour each-other to seem like positive people, they're still assholes to everyone else and they get away with it. They're artificially inflating their civility rating. I mean, that's just my guess, but you have to see it from my perspective here, there's a clear trend of this group behaviour leading to extreme negativity toward individual players. I see it happen to me and the other, in the case of a 3-man premade. They cannot yell at each-other so they yell at us. When I see it happen to my solo-bro I always try and de-escalate the situation, which I can usually do as a seemingly neutral party, but when they yell at me? What am I to do then? There is nothing I can do to bring that team together. It is my roll to bring my team together. My presence is therefore null, and the only reason to stay is to honour a system that does not honour me.

5 Comments

GoodLilRabbit10/7/2017, 6:14:34 PM2 votes

I'm so sorry! For what it's worth, I will try even harder in the future to not dismiss the "rando" when I'm playing with my friends, and be really careful to give them a fair chance.

Shacolaka10/7/2017, 10:29:37 AM1 votes

what you are pointing out is a very common issue not only in this game, but in other team-oriented games as well. However, to create a solution specifically targetting this issue is impossible. Not unless spending a huge amount of money and human resources to monitor each game and pre-made teams closely. Which is impossible. I understand your frustration cause I've had my share of experiences too. However, this problem will remain in this game forever as long as premade is allowed.

Abraxis10/15/2017, 9:58:23 PM1 votes

So, an update.

After 9 days of being positive, I am flamed once again, this time by players sporting that fancy big orange gem on their portraits.

I report them.

Moments later my honour "rewards" are finally unlocked.

I'm going to just assume you know your system is completely messed up and you're ignoring us because you're desperately scrambling to fix it.