What is this community?

Safarhaye Elmi·11/11/2017, 11:43:32 PM·18 votes·1,479 views

I just decided to play league after watching a bunch of its gameplay and stuff and i found it very cool but now i am wondering what is wrong with people playing this game! after 2 days of playing and reaching level 11 i rarely had 0 enjoyable games. people start flamming after 1-2 deaths and i encountered a lots of leavers and afk-players. I suggest you change the "Free to play" title for your game to " Free to suffer" "suffering in league of legends is free"

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LunarHanyou11/12/2017, 12:04:12 AM3 votes

This game currently has a very toxic tilt Induced environment, Mainly due to the many changes that have happened over the years. The game used to be "fun" but now it represents nothing but a way to pull you in and get you to spend your money on so called "skins,wards,icons and simplistic emotes which neither improves nor benefit you within the game. However because this game is so "addictive" it gets you to spend.

Not to mention the game expects you to be the very best in order to move forward in to Higher "Ranks" which is like 7% of players and if you are behind with little potential many will possibly give you a hard time and cause you to want to quit. you then become part of the toxic pool that is the community.

To be honest I would suggest you to stop playing now before you end up regretting it later. Many have been leaving sadly to say, you are in fact 3 years too late to be a part of a once so called a "fun game".

BlueThingamajig11/12/2017, 1:09:13 PM2 votes

There's a few things going on.

Generally speaking, most people who play league of legends are decent, not flaming people. Sometimes people get a little frustrated, and sometimes people have a bad game. But only a small fraction will rage and flame.

There are several factors that contribute to exacerbating the problems.

  1. League is team reliant and competitive. Your success is only 20% of the picture (10% if you consider the other team too). Most of the game is out of any players' hands. This is frustrating because there's a bad correlation between skill and winning. In any solo game, skill has a strong correlation to winning.
  2. Negativity bias: It only takes one negative player to make the game experience negative. Even if the other nine are decent, you remember the one who wasn't.
  3. League's leveling system is clumsy and archaic (hopefully this is no longer the case, with the preseason changes). In the early days of league, the leveling system matched players of similar level, which due to runes and masteries, mattered. But since then, the vast majority of players have reached level 30.

This makes low levels (1-29) a selection of new players, smurfs, and most significantly to your experience, banned players on a new account. The rate of toxic players is disproportionately high at low levels. People afk far more frequently at low levels. And because some a fair fraction of players are still learning, people can feed hard.

My hope that, with the changed leveling and rune system, much of the new player experience problems go away. Without having to worry about summoner level matching, Riot can put new players with less skilled experienced players (There are plenty of bad players in league. Have you seen any of Kshaway's wood league videos?)

There's very little advice I can offer you, though, besides the classic advice of 'mute, report, and move on'. The new player experience is pretty bad in league (as you have noticed) and before this new season, the only advice was "it gets better at level 30". I really hope Riot takes this opportunity to adjust new player matchmaking, but I'm not certain anything has changed.

Sukishoo11/12/2017, 1:12:40 AM2 votes

Eh, that's not just this community. Most any competitive game will have the exact same. People that think they know better than others is what all of these are built on.

BADWOLF954711/12/2017, 12:13:54 AM1 votes

LMAFO, you're not wrong. But if you can get through the early bits and get into a higher ELO the game gets better and the people get friendlier...kinda....

Area Code 20611/12/2017, 12:25:15 AM1 votes

The only solution is to play with premade friends, since riot is balancing all the quest rewards and other stuff to benefit full party play over solo play.

That or you could just mute every single person in each game and pretend you're playing single player.

Sona Ping11/12/2017, 12:48:19 AM1 votes

Sorry to hear about that.

and well, it's not a community, it's just people. And people will be people.

I've found players who are fun, positive, encouraging, humorous and all that great stuff. And then there's people who are not so much that. Which you know about. That's how it goes, how everything goes. "people start flamming after 1-2 deaths and i encountered a lots of leavers and afk-players." Like I can tell you that's not different from other online games I know, but I already know that's not going to be a relief to you. The unfortunate thing is that new players can get a bit more of it because guess where some of the people who got their accounts banned go.

Also, take anything written here with a carton of salt (pun no intended). Even the League forums will tell you that the League forums are notorious for people who will breathlessly rant at you about how the game is completely ruined now and everyone should quit due to something or other, which coincidentally, they just lost to. This goes triply so whenever there is a systemic change made to League, one of which is currently happening, which always riles up those who don't understand game functions or simply basic math. So, just in case, I will apologize on behalf of anyone who is going to use your post as a soapbox to bitch instead of having the decency to try to talk to you.

Teriyaki Bukkake11/12/2017, 2:33:18 AM1 votes

Oh yeah, no blind pick is full of tonnes of toxic players. To be entirely honest I think it actually holds the majority of the toxic players in the game! :/ The sooner you can get out of there and queue up into ranked the better, because I personally find playing ranked quite delightful :)

Sorin Alucard11/12/2017, 4:52:43 AM1 votes

Dont use your chat. just turn them all off every game and treat it like single player it becomes much more enjoyable.

Unless you have friends who play. Discord league is fun

Rocnation9811/12/2017, 9:49:18 AM1 votes

Toxicity and Memes.

Neo Metalsonicv211/12/2017, 10:37:55 AM1 votes

"suffering in league of legends is free"

this goes for every ELO

NekoniClaws11/12/2017, 1:28:45 PM1 votes

It's not really possible to ban people from the game, so bad players who harass their teammates have their accounts banned and constantly have to start fresh accounts. Type /mute all into chat, and once you see your winrate level to around 50%, you'll see much less toxicity.

I Just Stunned U11/12/2017, 6:39:14 PM1 votes

People are just toxic. Also, there are a lot of people smurfing out there and expecting people that actually just began playing the game to be a good player. Just mute and report people if they annoy you.

Magi Mayvin11/12/2017, 11:44:35 PM1 votes

What community? All I see is cancer.

Eji Saint11/13/2017, 1:36:59 AM1 votes

When you hit higher tier gameplay the community is a LOT better.. There are still the occasional people being dufuses, but people genuinely don't waste their time being dipshits.. all the muck and grossness of this community is boiling at the bottom of the barrel.

NOW.. After saying that, I get that the welcome committee is rather crap. So I apologize that people are ruining your experience, but the game is still cool and fun. It's just the people who play it who stain the upholstery.

Kye L911/11/2017, 11:44:54 PM1 votes

true

Strilter11/14/2017, 8:22:18 AM1 votes

Welcome to the League of Legends where you better do your god damned research before you wind up in a match with me because I will tear you a new one new player or not because attempting to play that new role is a waste of my time when I expect you to actually play the role...

In all seriousness my advice ... don't bother with league find a less toxic community like Hots or overwatch... league doesn't deserve new players. Especially if your skin is that thin.

SavageConcordia11/11/2017, 11:50:44 PM1 votes

Level 11 takes 2711xp, you get about 100xp per game. This means you played, what, 27 games in the last 2 days of a game you apparently hate? Why do that to yourself?

GigglesO11/11/2017, 11:54:12 PM1 votes

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after 2 days of playing and reaching level 11 i rarely had 0 enjoyable games.

Its the ranking system. It is extremity flawed in who gets placed where, and since it involves rewards (and prestige) everyone is really toxic.

Take me for example. I'm currently diamond, and with the new runes, my main is kinda trash. However, when I duo with my gold friends I have a lot of fun and still win a lot with him. So when I play at my own rank I get very frustrated, and that is what is happening in your games with smurfs and extremely competitive players.