Not trying to foster hate towards any of the staff, I just wanted to point out a few things.
At the start of the season, with new pings added, item changes, and better crackdown on inting punishments I thought things were going good. But in the past few months, I feel like the game quality is being actively reduced. Inability to ping team members or their ultimates, harsher pinging restrictions, the new system that sends toxic players to norms, I feel like it’s all just falling apart.
I could be alone on this, but a lot of these new communication changes seem unnecessary and limiting and the players I interact with have all really hated the direction the game is going. Is there anything that can be done about this?
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the new system that sends toxic players to norms
This is a good thing tho.
While I’m not a fan of the ping changes overall, I can’t deny that it feels like the amount of toxicity has gone down a LOT in my games since they were implemented. Last year, I started to personally keep track of toxicity in my ranked games (ranging from angry pinging to straight up ragequitting), and it was something like 80% of my games had at least one person on my team being toxic over ~250 games from Plat to low Master (this was before emerald).
I hadn’t started my ranked grind this season until the ping changes were already in. So far, only ~25% of my games across 117 games from Emerald 4 to Diamond 2 had someone being toxic. I’m shocked because plat/emerald to diamond is usually a cesspool with the worst egos I’ve ever seen in the game. I feel like people want to flame but can’t ping anymore and they’re too lazy to type so they just don’t bother. Which is honestly nice lol.
Phreak’s Karthus comment is out of touch and it’s annoying that I can’t ping what I’m trying to communicate at times. But it’s made a big impact in lowering toxicity in my ranked games and made my overall ranked grind significantly more enjoyable this season. Ofc there are still babies that whine in chat but the angry pingers were always way more common. I know I can’t draw any conclusions from my data, but I just thought I’d share my personal experience.
Wow crazy how you cant be toxic to your teammates when its IMPOSSIBLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM
You shouldnt be communicating in solo queue. Everyone shut the fuck up so no one is triggered and quits. Riot are in the right here.
Riot wants to create a system that makes players less toxic (or appear less toxic), and eventually everybody gets used to it that we just accept it and don’t even bother. The only thing they shouldn’t do is kill ally ult pings, or a requirement to waste 5 games worth 2-5 hours when that person has a job and no time to play. But they don’t care because League is addicting and they still won’t lose a significant amount of playerbase, and they’d rather make a complicated ping system than add voice because they are so scared the toxic players will talk how they type irl.
As a player who pings missing enemy exactly on an enemy leaving vision in a brush twice, I find the system works fine.
The game is being developed now by apathetic old heads who are hardstuck gold / plat elo on their main accounts after 13 years of playing. They are making changes based upon their personal bias and whims at this point. Champs that should never receive a buff as they are high skill ceiling and should have low win rates to reflect their difficulty are turning into right click and win with hardly any counter play. Why? Because its some gold elo rioters main who needs elo inflation because they refuse to buy coaching. The game is on maintenance mode to sell event passes and skins until they announce league 2 or the MMO. They are departing from this platform fast.