League Of Legends
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Who cares about the scrubs in normals? I literally just picked up the game 2 weeks ago and carry most normal games I'm in. I can't believe these kids take the game as seriously as they do, because it isn't hard to be even remotely average/above average at it... and it's usually someone named "Jewkilla2001" or "Gheyslaya69" or something equally as stupid talking shit.
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Sidian
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Well, my journey back to gold was completed today. I don't ranked all that often mainly because I always have 2 or 3 friends that play, just short of a full 5. Last season in about ~50 games I grinded up to 1500 mainly just because I wanted the rewards. Dat Janna skin yo. Finally got around to getting back to Gold this season. Went 13-5 this season to get back to gold. Went 7-3 in the opening placement matches and got placed into Silver 1. Won 3 in a row that got me up to 100 LP. Then went 2-2 in Placement, finally winning my last game. (It took me about 3 weeks to complete this promotion series lol)
Ended up going 5/1/17 this last Maokai game. Camped the hell out of bottom & Mid lane. Our soraka was pretty good with pink wards (hell, she actually called support in champ select) and I'd just camp often. As for the brand...he just kinda sucked.
Now, time to play 1 ranked game every 3 weeks or so so I can't get demoted due to inactivity and hopefully collect my rewards when s3 ends.
That or maybe I'll keep playing and see how high I can end up.
Ended up going 5/1/17 this last Maokai game. Camped the hell out of bottom & Mid lane. Our soraka was pretty good with pink wards (hell, she actually called support in champ select) and I'd just camp often. As for the brand...he just kinda sucked.
Now, time to play 1 ranked game every 3 weeks or so so I can't get demoted due to inactivity and hopefully collect my rewards when s3 ends.
That or maybe I'll keep playing and see how high I can end up.Wow, that GGU vs DIG Bo3.. crazy.
So surprised Dig lost that, but once Nasus smite stole baron it kind of sealed their fate. You could see how tilted they were on the cams after that happened for the remainder of the game. Hopefully they don't get knocked out of regulation, really like Scarra
That was a pretty informative talk. Pretty interesting how just by changing the color of a game tip you can influence player behavior to such a degree. Amazing that they're actually reducing the amount of people calling each other faggots during a game with just a few systems in place. Curious if Valve has the same kind of investment in trying to keep the social aspects of gameplay as positive as possible.
Definitely looking forward to the TSM vs. Vulcan games, though I would imagine TSM is going to rape the shit out of them.
Definitely looking forward to the TSM vs. Vulcan games, though I would imagine TSM is going to rape the shit out of them.
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Riot are a much smarter company than I've given them credit for.
I've done a few experiments of my own with a friend of mine, he's toxic as hell. While he's good at the game, but it doesn't give them the right to abuse everyone else. I'm terrible at the game, and when we queue together -- as soon as he shit talks, I'm the next target. I feel like shit after this happens and my game goes from bad to super shit in the space of seconds. The game in general just becomes a bad place to be, as too many people are angry or just too busy typing up the latest barrage of "omg, stun taric! you fag".
Last night, after I copped the first round of abuse from my ADC that facechecked the river bush and walked into their bot lane lying in wait. He'd made it back to tri-bush and died at the tower with me standing there. My ADC starts the "omg, taric where's the stun! u so bad" routine I've been subjected too lately. I inform the ADC, he's the one that face checked the river! bush at level 1 after assisting on the jungle/blue and that his killer was IN the bush thus I couldn't target for a stun, stun has a range, and that I shouldn't be to blame for this.
A few more rounds of abuse get thrown my way and I say on vent to my normally toxic friend... "righto, fuck it, this ADC can solo bot lane, I'm going to go sit in base."
He immediately responds that I shouldn't do that, and just knuckle down and ignore the player and that they'll settle down. I'm down about 4 levels from everyone at this stage and it's looking pretty grim, but I take the advice and just play like I should. Once we hit mid game, we are pretty much smashing up every team fight and coming back strong. We win the game after a stellar team engagement and one of the opposing team afks in base.
My normally toxic friend went from toxic to supportive in seconds when he realised just how much a little abuse can negatively affect someones game, but more importantly how it would affect his chances of winning. This probably won't apply to games I'm not playing in, or even in games where I'm not the focus, but there is a chance the attitude change will stick around.
The work that Riot has put into the behavioral studies is amazing, and something I'd never thought a gaming company would do. I'm really looking foward to what happens in 5 to 10 years from now and see how the community responds and changes its culture.
+1 Teamwork Dr. Lyte
I've done a few experiments of my own with a friend of mine, he's toxic as hell. While he's good at the game, but it doesn't give them the right to abuse everyone else. I'm terrible at the game, and when we queue together -- as soon as he shit talks, I'm the next target. I feel like shit after this happens and my game goes from bad to super shit in the space of seconds. The game in general just becomes a bad place to be, as too many people are angry or just too busy typing up the latest barrage of "omg, stun taric! you fag".
Last night, after I copped the first round of abuse from my ADC that facechecked the river bush and walked into their bot lane lying in wait. He'd made it back to tri-bush and died at the tower with me standing there. My ADC starts the "omg, taric where's the stun! u so bad" routine I've been subjected too lately. I inform the ADC, he's the one that face checked the river! bush at level 1 after assisting on the jungle/blue and that his killer was IN the bush thus I couldn't target for a stun, stun has a range, and that I shouldn't be to blame for this.
A few more rounds of abuse get thrown my way and I say on vent to my normally toxic friend... "righto, fuck it, this ADC can solo bot lane, I'm going to go sit in base."
He immediately responds that I shouldn't do that, and just knuckle down and ignore the player and that they'll settle down. I'm down about 4 levels from everyone at this stage and it's looking pretty grim, but I take the advice and just play like I should. Once we hit mid game, we are pretty much smashing up every team fight and coming back strong. We win the game after a stellar team engagement and one of the opposing team afks in base.
My normally toxic friend went from toxic to supportive in seconds when he realised just how much a little abuse can negatively affect someones game, but more importantly how it would affect his chances of winning. This probably won't apply to games I'm not playing in, or even in games where I'm not the focus, but there is a chance the attitude change will stick around.
The work that Riot has put into the behavioral studies is amazing, and something I'd never thought a gaming company would do. I'm really looking foward to what happens in 5 to 10 years from now and see how the community responds and changes its culture.
+1 Teamwork Dr. Lyte
Penance
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I don't think I can QFT this anymore. I'm in the exact same boat as you. I don't give Riot nearly enough credit. But they really are evolving as a company and really do show some breakthrough and innovation when it comes to things like these.
I play DOTA now way more then LOL. But in Dota, their system to stop bad behavior was to place an automated system in place in which if you receive 4? reports one game you are banned from talking for 24 hours. This completely fucks your other teams over as you can imagine... Lost a lot of respect for Valve when they put that in. Oh well. I think Valve and Riot have a long road ahead of them and I think it's nigh time Valve actually started taking tips from Riot in this particular department.
What I found quite interesting is that they are trying to focus on and come up with a solution for champ select. They apparently approached some researchers about it and they said good luck we haven't been able to come up with anything for that situation for the past decade+, yet this didn't deter them and they are still working on a solution. Impressive IMO for a gaming company.
It's great seeing games where Gambit Gaming (M5) really come together and play well.
And ya I really wish DIG would step up their game, Scarra is such a great player, maybe if DIG does disband it will give him a chance to go else where.
And ya I really wish DIG would step up their game, Scarra is such a great player, maybe if DIG does disband it will give him a chance to go else where.
I ended up just moving the chat box off screen. I have earned several of the badges so I'm not a toxic player, etc. But just the bandwagoning that occurs when somethings goes wrong is too much.
If the game had voice comms I'd take it more serious. :/ I -still- have a hard time taking LoL serious as a competitive game. :/
If the game had voice comms I'd take it more serious. :/ I -still- have a hard time taking LoL serious as a competitive game. :/
A long time ago they turned enemy chat off by default and I never looked back. My games got 100x better after they did that. You don't have to hear either side. Your team could be shouting in all chat about how everything is your fault and you wouldn't even know it. There is still the occasional thing from your own team but cutting down 2/3 of the useless chat is huge.
Largest game for e-sports in the world? Can't take it seriously. Boggles my mind haha.
Dear lord, you WANT voice comms with randoms? Ugh, that's one thing i hated about HoN when i played it.. listening to the retards rage.. often in other languages.. worse than chat.
I wouldn't mind voice comms as long as you could disable them with an ignore. Would make for better team communication until the rage started, then just mute it.