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Honor and End of Season Rewards. Why Change?

a F R 0 G·8/30/2018, 4:57:12 AM·3 votes·2,824 views

Historically, chat bans, account suspensions, and perma bans were the only way to miss out on end of season rewards after ranking up the ladder all season. This year, with the implementation of the honor system and hextech reward punishments, Riot had other things in mind.. To create a Dishonorable Status where anyone below level 2 honor will be INELLIGABLE for rewards. Not just the keys to gain blue/orange essence but your loading screen border, the seasonal ward skin, the victorious skin, and the profile border. If you are unable to return your lvl 2 status by the end of the season, a process which takes months. Let me repeat that.. Months.

A process which takes months for you to regain your honorable status and receive your end of season rewards. For another year, you will have to remain borderless for the work and time you put in. Historically, this process of reforming was done within the mind of the individual, after working out the punishment, and really considering how their actions are unacceptable (had to be said). And as the loading screen quote tells us, 30% of players who experience one chat ban will never receive another. So where does that leave the other 70% this season?

Dear player who received a chat ban after typing the trigger words, after the gatekeepers of the next division trolled your promotional series for the third time this month. And you the accused who unleashed your power to chat upon the greasy villain only to find your account plunged into a dishonorable putrid state. Sorry to you player, if you did end up making it to that next division for the first time in your league career. You've made countless friends, played with thousands of other players, engaged competitive matches and did not gloat in victory, stayed humble in defeat so often... you've made the experience a joy for so many players. But you fucked up. If you've received this punishment within 2 months of the end of the season when you've finally grasped the meta, finally come to climb out of your last years border, finally found your role in the league, all that hard work. Sorry, you will not receive your end of season rewards, you're toxic.

Riot, will you change this system? I believe it to be unfair. Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Edit: this got negative attention so heres an idea. Instead of giving these players jail, how about giving them an opportunity to develop empathy with a sort of community service? Give these toxic players the opportunity to gain honor by teaching newer players the game. Put a game mode that matches people on voice communication or something that allows distributing game knowledge in a practical way. Let the newer player give them a rating that will be documented. Once you recieve enough high ratings and reviews, you will regain normal honor. The current honor gaining system is antiquated.

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21 Comments

Imperial Pandaa8/30/2018, 5:06:23 AM11 votes

Some people take months, others days or weeks. But seeing as everyone started at 2 by default (pending dishonorable from previous season) seems fair to require it.

Geauxx8/30/2018, 5:04:51 AM9 votes

or just drop the ego and don't be toxic, its not hard.

Congrats, some kids flamed on a game or trolled a game or whatever and you felt the need to be toxic because you're weak-willed.

zPOOPz8/30/2018, 5:06:17 AM8 votes

Historically, chat bans, account suspensions, and perma bans were the only way to miss out on end of season rewards after ranking up the ladder all season.

They still are the only way to miss out on end of season rewards. Before, there was just an arbitrary "cut-off" day (I believe 1 month from end of season) that will cause you to lose your rewards. Now there is no "cut-off" day before end of season.

Modi8/30/2018, 5:25:09 PM5 votes

Historically, chat bans, account suspensions, and perma bans were the only way to miss out on end of season rewards after ranking up the ladder all season. This year, with the implementation of the honor system and hextech reward punishments, Riot had other things in mind.. To create a Dishonorable Status where anyone below level 2 honor will be INELLIGABLE for rewards

The only way to go below honor 2 is to receive one of those punishments. I don't see how it is that much different from what it was before. Yes, it makes it harder to "earn back" rewards, when you are punished, but I agree with Riot that it should be hard to earn it back. It should take effort. You shouldn't be rewarded when you are not being a good LoL citizen.

Zombie Gerbil8/30/2018, 5:24:19 AM4 votes

No, they will not change it and it isn't unfair, because toxic players need to learn the consequences of their words. It's unfair for players having to tolerate any of these toxicity or ruined game experiences. And these players should know, that other people are not there for them to torture for their own amusement or their own lack of empathy, compassion, or self-control. We're all equal, we all agreed to the same terms, and we're all abiding by it to remain in Riot's service. Toxic players should learn and be aware that there are consequences for their ignorance.

We're here to have fun, but not by other players expense. No, Riot should not, and they will certainly make it more strict if they do change it.

Eternal Torment8/30/2018, 10:36:40 AM3 votes

The answer is simple.

In life, nobody rewards you for being an ass. Games are a hobby, which is part of life. So why should Riot make an exception to that rule?

Veralion8/30/2018, 5:45:32 PM2 votes

It's total bullshit and part of the reason why the game is dying. You can straight up say the n word on battle.net and Blizzard will only ban you for 3 hours. 14 days for anything short of scripting is fucking absurd. After this trainwreck of a season and seeing the current direction of champion design go off the deep end, I think I'm gonna play a game that treats me as something more than expendable garbage.

TheEvilQueen1358/30/2018, 12:32:28 PM1 votes

i do think they could decrease the amount of honor levels taken by chat restrictions. to have both bans and chat restrictions go to 0 i think is a little harsh for the chat people, they should still lose honor but maybe they should just go down to unlocked status or level one. and this is coming from someone not banned since 2014 when they still did bans for afks (college had bad wifi that year)