In his latest patch run down, he is saying in a condescending manner that you can actually type in chat “Karthus Ult” instead of pinging it if you want to make your teammate aware of a kill opportunity.

Completely ignoring various complex situations that could arise:

  • You could be in a teamfight which does not allow you in that timeframe while for example chasing, disengaging or/and anticipating flanks, etc., to type during all of that “Karthus Ult” (you rather want to press Tab > ping the Ult)

  • There are many players who have their chat muted since they do not want to experience the toxicity and blaming that is going on, rather focusing on the game itself (So, how you gonna tell that Karthus to Ult, should I spam my pings in his face so that he certainly won’t think that I am flaming him?)

It just shows that Phreak, whom I have nothing against since I think that he gets too much heat just by being a popular figure in the Balance Team, is instead of thinking in-depth about the negatives of the ping changes which are stifiling necessary communication in a team game; he rather is doubling down with such an oversimplified, contemptuous reaction towards that criticism.

The player base is not able to communicate properly in a video game that is team based to the core, and instead of creating a safe space for everybody and everything, we should rather find solutions that do not restrict its most crucial communication tools, but rather to combat the real issues why there is so much in-game misbehaviour.

And that is also easy to answer with a very simple, but a revealing sentence:

“I can mute your chat and pings, but I can not mute you from running it down and therefore ruining peoples games”.

These negative behaviours occur because of your neglience for so many years of not actually barring players from Ranked Mode who run it down, rage quit, intentional feed and therefore nearly always get away with it, ruining countless other games. And the only “revenge”, if you can call it, is then the community using profane language and abusing communication tools to get their frustration out somehow since you guys are not doing anything about it in the first place!

  • KordbenBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But as with anything, we intend to always keep our eyes and ears open.

    Incorrect.

    If you would listen you would know how huge issue ping nerf is for community ever since Auberaun interacted with it and all you guys did was ignore palyer feedback on the topic, just changed it without communicating and listening to community on it.

    On a related tangent, I liberally block people who come at with me with nothing but unfiltered toxicity and every day I still see more of them. I can indeed mute/block people who are jerks. But if a new person pops off with some dumb shit I still see flame in my games.

    Then play single player games. EVERY COMPETITIVE GAME has toxicity in it and you all did changes from the wrong angle. Remove chat and you will see threats and toxicity reduced by 95%. You tried to remove the smaller evil from the game (pings) so bigger evil (grief, creative threaths in chat, int, troll etc…)will be way more prevelant than before…

    Of course, I could just turn off chat entirely / not go on twitter ever / not go on reddit ever / not go on youtube ever. But I do liberally block people and I still see garbage in some feed every day. To be clear, this is not about your post. I appreciate you making it. This is just to say that blocking does not prevent one from consistent exposure to toxicity. I agree that something more underlying would be really valuable. I’m also not personally able to change that, especially when most of these platforms are just social media at large.

    Don’t mix social media shit here. Thats Zuckerberg and Musk’s job to deal with or not.

    We are talking about League and you and Auberaun and who knows who are 100% responsible that we are here.

    But again you guys just don’t communicate on important stuff. Not in the time it would be open for community talking. When you guys implemented the first changes there should have been an open communication because this is a huge, gameplay releated change that affects every player.

    And you all ignored community. But at least K’sante is playable…