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Repost due to wrong board: Smurf-abuse for trolling ingame

Eternal Torment·5/3/2017, 5:40:29 PM·1 votes·390 views

is the reason why riot should start using IP bans on clients for said trolls.

Hearing someone laugh in false safety while sabotaging your game for the fun of it is already bad enough. but then returning with endless smurfs knowing there is nothing out there other than death that will stop him from trolling people just tops the cake. I am pissed off from a troll ruining my game today, yes so go ahead and flame my ass. you will be welcomed. but i think i speak for an underestimated majority when i say riot Needs to up their moves against active trolling.

just look at tyler1, he has 22 accounts banned and even now riot still says he will be quot on quot "banned upon identification" means they are actually actively gonna look for him like some spies to Keep him off the game. just track the client from where his accounts are used and bust it, it is legally possible to do so. Hell, Messenger apps like kik have ip bans, and they are literally underdeveloped Little app creators that in tech compared to riot appear like some kindergardencompany.

save everyone the troubles, us Players, this community and even your own support team by just allowing it to happen. smurfing to climb is already an enough bad Thing for low elo regions, but abusing the new height of safety to perma troll the game knowing you still have a main account in full prepared use makes me tilt literally just by thinking about it. it makes me so salty i could give myself an yellow afro and get sold as french fries!

(A/N: posted this on gameplay a moment ago, but Moderation Counts this as critisism for PB&M so i had to move it here)

10 Comments

Deep Terror Nami5/3/2017, 5:46:51 PM4 votes

IP bans are easily circumvented, and also frequently punish many players that are not associated with the offender such as banning an entire college dorm or PC cafe. "Underdeveloped little app creators" do it because it's easy and they don't care about the collateral damage since there is a small chance of it; with a company like Riot the collateral is huge.

o0O Madoka O0o5/3/2017, 5:42:58 PM1 votes

ha.. my 20 min typing wasted because the post was removed.. Feels really bad.

o0O Madoka O0o5/3/2017, 5:45:46 PM1 votes

In short, it doesn't work every well for games.

IP address ban faces issues for dynamic IP address, net café, and easily available VPN.

Tyler1 was manually reviewed, verified and banned. It is impossible to apply that to a player base of millions of players. Also Tyler 1 still wants to stream and make videos. If he just plays in private (and I believe he does have an account for that), there's no way Riot can permanently ban him.