League of Legends Bans Pro For Bad Behavior

[Azuaron]

League of Legends is my life, and I will do everything in my power to play as long as possible.

Someone needs to get their priorities straight IMO.

Exactly what I was thinking. As much as I like LoL, or any game for that matter, I could never say it's my life >.>

If he's a "pro" player ("pro" being "professional" meaning "this is what I do for a living"), that's not too unusual. I mean, we wouldn't bat an eye at a Dodger saying, "Baseball is my life."

I usually have the same reaction to any sport or game. I agree that most people wouldn't have the same reaction to any other professional sport and I don't get it. They'll rag on video games for being "just a game" then turn around and go on about like it's super serious.

Oh, I'm totally baffled by professional sports/videogame players in general. I just said it wasn't too unusual.

We could also go outside of the entertainment realm. Theoretical physics is my life. Building web apps is my life. Hairdressing is my life.

I mean, he could've turned the crazy up to 11:

"My cats are my life," he says with dead eyes, eyes that only show a flicker of happiness when they gaze upon one of his fifty-three felines.

"Preparing for the coming apocalypse is my life," he says from his metal shipping container, buried in an undisclosed location somewhere in Georgia. The container is entirely self-contained, and can support him for four years without outside supplies--longer if he can safely collect rainwater after the apocalypse.

 

[Nihlus2]

Good on Riot.

Doesn't matter if you wear wrecked and ruined cloth, or royal finely sown regalia - you act negatively towards people, you face the consequences of your actions. Hope he learned a lesson about keeping his manners and temper in place after this.

 

[RaikuFA]

I usually have the same reaction to any sport or game. I agree that most people wouldn't have the same reaction to any other professional sport and I don't get it. They'll rag on video games for being "just a game" then turn around and go on about like it's super serious.

See, you're still talking about fans seemingly. This guy made a career out of playing LoL and was getting paid well to do it. This was his job, not just a game. So his priorities were fine, considering LoL paid his bills.

So that gives him a right to be a dick to others? From what I hear LoL is infamous foe people actinmg like this and they banned this guy to prove they're not joking now.

 

[HellsingerAngel]

2. ...Also normal players only get 4 chances to "reform" before a permaban.

3. Riot actually has no way for players to have strikes removed against their record. I've known people who went 6 months, a year, and even two years without a ban when it was their final strike. Then when they get to tribunal and then punished it was a permaban.

4. Tribunal is a screwed up system where due to the changes the "justice elo" and "accuracy" spiked up the punish rate back up to 80-85%. The person with the highest "justice elo" even said so himself that he basically spams punish. Also even the most trivial things gets players banned and Lyte is okay with players being banned than actual justice or reform happening. Imagine if you said GG easy in your online games when you had a stompfest. Well guess what. You can get permabanned from typing that. Basically if players perceive something to be "negative" then you can get banned from it and usually are.

Much like everything else spat towards Tribunal, you can't prove any of what you just said. Riot withholds the ability to change everything about Tribunal whenever they want and they don't exactly show a lot about how it works in great detail. I would assume that's because they want their system to be unique for the time being. Please, don't bring all the unfounded hate from the LoL forums here.

OT: Still doesn't prove Riot is good at sowing good within their community. They still treat pro players with preferential treatment in these regards and while I don't 100% agree with everything Tenmar said, there is some truth to it. Nine full cases seems like a lot, especially for someone that's more visible than the average offender. If they're going to hold pro players to a higher standard, that means they should be allowed less mistakes than the average player, not more.

I'm glad to see such a visible player who's toxic get banned, but again Riot contradict themselves and prove they don't mean what they say.

 

[Frostbite3789]

So that gives him a right to be a dick to others? From what I hear LoL is infamous foe people actinmg like this and they banned this guy to prove they're not joking now.

Perhaps you should read the rest of a conversation before jumping in and making yourself look sorta foolish. "League of Legends is my life" is the quote we were talking about and Waa originally said he should get his priorities straight. I said his priorities were fine since LoL paid the bills. It had nothing to do with whether or not he deserved the ban.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

I always figured being in the top 1% of objectionable LoL players earned someone a medal, not a banning.

This was pretty much my thought. If you look at some of the cases they've let off I'm imagining it was an overstatement that he's in the 1%.

League of Legends is really competitive. It's not uncommon for players to get really angry at each other. It is, however, somewhat uncommon for a pro player to be so bad. From my understanding, they're mostly fairly cool about the game outside of tournaments.

So is Starcraft, but even from the incendiary players like Idra you don't see anything near what a typical LoL game offers.

 

[Soods]

Glad to see Riot is still dedicated in its war against BM. Though I fear they are heavily outnumbered, by my experiences (~2k games played) +50% of the playerbase is uncapable of civil conversation, which was also the reason I quit LoL.

 

[Alcaste]

You don't get permabanned for saying "gg easy". You get permabanned for receiving multiple warnings and constantly being a dick to other players.

OT: Good. It took too long for them to do it, but good nonetheless.

 

[ShirowShirow]

More of this in general please.

Something as dirty as the online gaming community needs to be scrubbed with bleach.

 

[RaikuFA]

More of this in general please.

Something as dirty as the online gaming community needs to be scrubbed with bleach.

Pretty much this. And add in a flood of biblical poportions to finish up.

I can't believe some people think this attitude is a good thing and should be part of gaming culture.

 

[Uratoh]

So when are they going to ban all the other LoL players?

Okay, that's not fair. We're not detestable ALL the time.

Only on days ending in 'y', right?

 

[DugMachine]

Oh yes I've heard of this guy's shenanigans. Really did take em long enough.

I will say though, at those high levels if you're a bad player better grow a thick skin or don't queue. You can't even give proper criticism or advice without someone going "Stfu don't tell me how to play" alright fair enough but don't join my games and be the reason we lose? k?

 

[RaikuFA]

More of this in general please.

Something as dirty as the online gaming community needs to be scrubbed with bleach.

Pretty much this. And add in a flood of biblical poportions to finish up.

I can't believe some people think this attitude is a good thing and should be part of gaming culture.

Except not everything can be "gaming culture". Not everyone who plays games is representing "gaming culture" or making a difference in the culture. Playing video games first and foremost for 99% of people who play video games need to worry about "gaming culture".

The people who make video games as a part of their career or making a difference for good or for ill as part of their everyday lives can constitute as being part of that "gaming culture". Writers, reviewers, pundits, artists, musicians, developers, programmers, analysts, comedians. These are the people that influence and affect "gaming culture". Not the guy who picks up a game of COD or LOL and plays one match a day to relax from the everyday stress of life.

Not everyone needs to be on watch or act as if they are some representative figure of all things video games when they actually have ZERO stake in the creation or involvement of all things video game related.

I was reffering more to the "pros" the people who make a living off of playing these games. If they're insulting others because they lost to them or berating them in general just because they know they can then they need to be punished for it cause they do represent the culture.

 

[theultimateend]

If he's as bad as the various articles and comments I've seen make out, then good on Riot for doing something about it.

Although it does seem slightly odd that it went all the way to nine tribunals for it to happen.

I like your avatar.

@OP Honestly, if I joined a room with someone named "IWillDominate" as their username I'd be totally unsurprised when they turned out to be an asshole.

I realize my name might sound kinda conceded but its neopets fault >.>... You had to add adjectives and an extra word to just about anything to not need numbers.

But I digress, I've seen folks named like SuperOverKill, IamtheGreatest, etc etc.

These people are ALWAYS assholes, well not always.

Recently I met a guy named "GodMode" in a different game and was absolutely stunned when he was really nice, who knows maybe I caught him on a good day?

 

[psycoturkey]

I'm happy to hear Riot actually does something to enforce the Code of Conduct for their game. The reason I quit playing LoL was because I could no longer stand the community. You have one off game, and everyone starts barking out you to uninstall and go die. You get a 2/4 K/D spread, and all of a sudden you're feeding. Nah, I'll stick to GW2 for now, thanks. As for any criticisms against IWillDominate, he is a professional, which means gaming is his career. As such, LoL is his life and people in the gaming community should respect him for keeping eSports relevant.

 

[Vyress]

I'm happy to hear Riot actually does something to enforce the Code of Conduct for their game. The reason I quit playing LoL was because I could no longer stand the community. You have one off game, and everyone starts barking out you to uninstall and go die. You get a 2/4 K/D spread, and all of a sudden you're feeding. Nah, I'll stick to GW2 for now, thanks. As for any criticisms against IWillDominate, he is a professional, which means gaming is his career. As such, LoL is his life and people in the gaming community should respect him for keeping eSports relevant.

Exactly this. The community in LoL just sucks. Most of the games someone is calling a teammate a noob or feeder ignoring their own bad score or their own lacking behind in cs. Yesterday I won a 2v1 lane with Irelia against Darius and Draven and was called a "noob top" by bot lane for... tbh, I have no idea. My score in laning phase was 3/1/0 while bot lane was like 1/5/0 and his friend assist at 0/6/1. So much for feeding.
In a co-op vs AI game today I got flamed for actually going for towers and the Nexus...
Another game the adc of the team was flamed for "ks'ing" >.>

It is simply no fun. I can understand why you quit LoL. Games certainly are enjoyable when you get to play with people who have common sense and a healthy temper but when does that ever happen.

It is all about getting the most kills, calling your role first and forcing others to do roles they simply can't play well, blaming others for their own mistakes and most importantly labeling others as feeders or ks'ers.