Overpunishment for minor offenses

Merlin Von Doom·4/13/2018, 8:46:49 PM·3 votes·3,221 views

I have been a loyal league player for 5 years. I have never had a complaint or anything until about a week ago when i got tilted in a game. I said something in chat that i shouldn't have and received a 10 game chat ban and they took all my honor. I did my team game restriction and hoped that my honor would be unlocked but it wasn't until yesterday they unlocked my honor. Now I am unable to play clash because there isn't enough time to unlock my honor level 2 before it starts. I talked to MAMA MEEP at riot support and she made it clear that riot had no intention of correcting my overpunishment of stripping all my honor and then not unlocking it so i can earn it back. Now my team won't be able to participate in Clash. Has anyone else been over punished? I feel like not being able to play clash from one complaint in 5 years is not fair in any way.

16 Comments

ModThe Djinn4/13/2018, 8:54:26 PM5 votes

The Clash thing is definitely unfortunate timing and probably makes this sting more than it should, but it should be worth noting that you're on the lightest punishment Riot has -- just 10 games with chat restrictions, and a loss of bonus rewards. That's pretty small, ultimately.

Dolyna4/13/2018, 9:04:46 PM3 votes

I don't have a problem with the chat bans. Personally, though, I never like zero tolerance policies. They always manage to grab some people who don't deserve the more severe punishment. Worse, any negativity after that can earn a permaban. So I voted "yes", even though I don't support the OP's case.

HalcyonDweller4/13/2018, 9:30:28 PM3 votes

I think that honor might be too difficult to gain, but that aside I think that losing honor for being punished is fair.

Nrader4/13/2018, 9:19:38 PM1 votes

We don't have clash on EUW so I can't exactly relate, but it doesn't sound particularly fair

FluffyMcMuffins4/13/2018, 9:46:07 PM1 votes

Consider yourself lucky. I was having a bad week once and started accusing all my teammates of buying their accounts/getting boosted. I got a two week ban as my first offense ever on an account that's been around 7+ years for that. =(

Defliers4/13/2018, 10:36:52 PM1 votes

Fear not, you should be getting to honor level 2 again in the duration of 4 months or so (considering you're level 1 now)

I don't know if Clash is going to be around for that long but yeah, good luck.

Subject 54/13/2018, 11:05:28 PM1 votes

Clash doesn't seem like that big of a deal, it's basically if you went to an event / tournament that is properly hosted by most LoL communities. Limiting the thing to honor is basically only making the pool smaller, ultimately less serious than Ranked SoloQ. If you want to clash, then I recommend seeking out communities that off these - as well as some pretty hefty prizes too.

Though I do agree that Riot goes pretty extreme for the punishments, especially for people that otherwise have no problems on the account. Though you likely won't be getting any sympathy from the forums, the community at this point supports lynchings of people that step on their morals / personal beliefs. This account had no offenses or anything, started playing a game in a lobby with a bunch of goons having a really good time. Next thing you know, we started using words that other people could take offense to in a joking and non-toxic manner . . . next thing you know, I'm 14 day suspended for joking around on a game.

This is where you can play clash at without actually playing clash: https://events.na.leagueoflegends.com/

You can also google some of these events up yourself, they are pretty much everywhere.

Oh. Also?

"just 10 games."

If all of those games take 20 minutes each, that'd take you 200 minutes as a bare minimum - which is unlikely. If all of those games took 40 minutes, it'd be 400 minutes - and at most it can take up to 600 minutes. Not that severe, yet? Alright-

How about this: Spend 4 months getting honor back for your little mistake. Yeah, dude, not over-punishment kek. Nothing personal, kid, but see ya in 4 months - okay?