I was just told to “off” myself by two different players in an ARAM. One of them literally had a macro for it, and spammed it in whispers.
While they were reported, it’s clear that isn’t working. The reason they have low level accounts in first place is because their main accounts were banned… and yet here they are, continuing their crap.
Solution: Keep players in the AI mode until they have a level 200 account. This solves any number of problems, but in this case it forms a not-so-insignificant barrier to keep players like this away from others. Moreover, it’s easy to implement; they already have the code in place for rated.
Yes, you can turn off the chat in-game… but players should not have to cut off communication from the entire player-base just because of the obnoxious actions of a few.
Yes, you can block chat with players… but they only works in retrospect, after they spam this crap in chat.
I suggest pre-punishing everyone, by removing chat altogether. And to prevent gameplay griefing (feeding, afk-ing, moving around not to get kicked out), I suggest the game having an autoplay function.
Also, I was thinking of a different 3 letter word, which got me quite disappointed.
Level 200 for aram is pretty asinine, because it’s the most casual mode in the game next to AI. I don’t think ARAM should ever have any level requirements (maybe require the player to finish the tutorial or 1 AI match).
But I wouldn’t mind if they counter-griefed the Storm League trolls a bit by raising the level requirement to 100 or even 200.
Losing a lv50 account is trivial, but losing a lv200 you spent a month building is plenty of deterrent for the ordinary troll.
Levels, hero as well as account, do not equate skill and staying in vs A.I for too long will ingraine players with bad habits as well as not understanding how heroes work. They’ll just get to level 200, roll over into PvP, and keep peddling the same nonsense that they did in my neck of the woods.
You can drag a horse to a watering hole but you cannot force it to drink.
Wouldn’t matter if you jacked the level requirement up to 1k or 2k. It would probably be worse. You’d be having players with a couple hundred levels on a single hero but being worse than bots stumble into PvP.
People are jerks online but you gotta roll with the punches. They do not know who you are and neither you know them. They are just another faceless person on the internet. More often than not after a day you’ll forget about each other.
If not, and they keep popping up, that is what blocking is for.
I appreciate the sarcasm, but because someone else might seriously think this…
If the game is reliant upon toxic players, then it should die.
I’d rather play with 1000 players who don’t do this activity than 10000 who do.
That’s a separate issue.
The problem is not their lack of skill, but how they interact with other players.
Since we’re going with metaphor: Imagine a club or bar, where there is a clear rule these turds are violating. Yes, you can kick them out the back door… but if they can just walk around and enter the front door again, there’s no point to the punishment. If they have to wait in line for an hour or two, however, they will be disinclined to break the rule in the first place, and get bored and wander off somewhere else when they realize they have to wait outside.
This is a bit of hand-waving I see from people online trying to gloss over a pretty obvious and easily fixed problem. “Oh, it’s always like that…” or, "There are always people like that… ", etc.
You’re actually in good company here, as this fallacy is widespread: people ascribe toxicity to some kind of fundamental flaw particular to certain individuals, and ignore the fact that it is largely a byproduct certain environmental conditions. In this case, how Blizzard structures and filters groups.
Kind of. Maybe sometimes. Mostly it’s what they agree with as life progresses. I’ve worked in places where there were endless hours of filthy language and topics, but how did I react to it? I think what Troubled is trying to say is that you can disagree with toxicity and keep your cool, or you can start to complain and they’ll most likely turn it up to eleven.
I know for a fact that if I had told my coworkers that they were violating work policies, they would have increased their activity and made me the center of their illicit jokes. Instead I let them work in the environment that they had created and did not join in contributing to it.
Well, you kinda set it up yourself, when you considered reporting and blocking as not enough because it punishes people after they committed the offense.
The game isn’t so crazily popular that people would jump through the hoops just to get a chance to experience it. With how slow banning actually is, I’d imagine AI will be filled with a horde of bots levelling accounts to sell them for smurfs; the game isn’t getting too many new (not “new”) players anyway.
But there’s a reason no game implemented such crazy conditions to access actual player vs player gameplay. Level 200 takes more than a week of boring games (probably even more than a month, since you can’t level all heroes equally, unless you buy them with gems). After about a day of bot games, people would just uninstall it.
I agree toxicity is a result of certain environmental conditions. People like winning; if they have (human) allies, some will blame the allies for losing. If they can express it to their allies or troll them, they will, in whatever way they see fit.
Similarly, if people have (human) enemies, they’ll blame the enemy for losing. Call them hackers, cheaters, no lifers, whatever.
Eliminating the “environmental conditions” would be just making hots single player; you can already play it like that, and there’s people already playing it like that. Maybe you should give it a try.
I suggest you retreat in your safe bubble and disable team chat so your feelings aren’t hurt anymore. I believe you’ll enjoy what’s left of this game and playerbase playing through your bubble instead of punishing more of the few remaining players from playing. I hope your bubble therapy works for you. It has worked for many.
