My god, the toxicity levels in BMB are disgusting.
I can go for months without a game with more than one flamer in it. Across all modes, ranked, normals, ARAM, URF, etc.
And then I play 5 games of BMB and 2 of them have at least 2 ragers. Wow.
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It's because the mode is hell and the icon forces you in it for WAY too long.
People just want the icon, man. They don't want their time wasted on shit they hate when they aren't getting what they came for.
It's a mixture of two things:
It's a temporary mode, so it brings together casuals and tryhards on the same team. That is like putting a bomb next to a bonfire.
"I've done that. It's why I don't have any lips."
It's on Summoner's Rift while not changing core gameplay a whole lot. So while there's new minions and a handful of new items, it's mostly just a normal game with a couple bells and whistles tacked on. You play it a few times, and the excitement wears off rather quickly. However, if you want that sweet, sweet icon, you'll be playing it long after it's "exciting shiny new-ness" has worn thin.
Yea I'm shocked by the Toxicity. Yesterday I saw 2 games with people who didn't get the role they wanted so they ran down the lane into enemy turrets all game. I haven't seen an intentional feeder in another game mode in at least 6 months. Crazy.
I usually play ARAM because I loathe SR and the people on it, so you could probably tell my reaction towards having to play it for the last icon. My first (and probably last) game of BMB had me playing as ADC (because for some reason people still use the meta when playing fun gamemodes) when I had no ADC runes and/or experience playing as one. But I tried. And failed. And my friendly neighborhood Lee Sin made sure I knew I was failing. "Graves is shit""reported for being shit" That's what teammates are for, right? We lost horribly, and I decided SR is not for me.
I think it has a bit to do with champ select also. You have your bans, like in draft mode, and then you have a free for all blind pick after the bans. So people are conflicted because it seems like pick order reigns, except there ends up being no pick order.
But there are a lot of inherent ragers. I got in a game and called jungle. I didn't see anyone else call it first, then some guy starts screaming at me for picking jungle when he called it first and telling everyone to report me. Keep in mind this was still during bans and all i had said was "jg". He didn't even start off with a "hey i called jg" to which i would have replied "ok". He just went straight to "report this troll jerk for trying to go double jungle i'm gonna murder your family asshole". Thank god someone dodged.
Then another game I had an ashe come leash me and steal my first camp, then go fouble top.
I really do like this mode, I just want it to be over so I can go back to playing normals with normal people.
ive actually not had that bad an experience per say, but all it took was one game with a bully and I was done. I freakin hate bullies.
Temporary game modes have a tendency to bring the worst people back into regular games. That trend's been going since the first URF. The same also happens when the Ranked season is over. Not intentionally ragging on people who play a lot of Ranked, but this is the pattern. It seems to stem from people who normally only play Ranked jumping into games played by people who don't. Ranked draws high-tension players. When neat game modes pop up and those players want to try them, they leak out of Ranked and clash with everyone else.
Boycott Riot for forcing us through this! Sadistic freaks.
I haven't noticed players in my games being any more or less toxic than any other mode. I was fighting the Hulk my anger while playing Karthus against Katarina, but that's an entirely different matter as nothing was said in chat.
really? all i get is afks
The problem with the toxicity is that in order to get the icons you have to WIN a total of 8 games at least for the tf/graves icon. being forced to win brings out a level of toxicity that is beyond reproach. for instance, you see a lot of toxicity in ranked because if you lose, especially if you're in your gay ass promos, you end up losing ranked points.
bmb is suppose to be a fun game mode, but instead has turned into this toxic cesspool because of forcing people to win in order to get the icons in a short period of time.