@Scotto said:
@jakob187 said:
@Scotto said:
The League of Legends community also sucks pretty hard, for the most part. Nearly every game I've played, there's at least a couple of elitist jackoffs who can't wait to tell you how shit you are, or yell at you for not doing what they wanted.
In all fairness, a lot of those "elitest jackoffs" that are telling you how shit you are...are probably telling you how shit you are. In normals, it's dumb to bother with that. When it happens that someone is bad, I just say "oh well, it's normals" and move along with the match. In ranked, however... Honestly, if people don't have any goddamn skills at the game, there's literally NO reason they should be in ranked. There are basic things that a player needs to know - how to last hit, abbreviations, strategies, skill combos, how to teamfight, who should be getting kills on the team, when to tower dive, how to gank, how to ward, builds and build orders, etc etc - before they ever step foot into ranked...
...but they go into ranked anyways. If someone is shit in ranked matches, I am 100% for the verbally berating of that person. They are a dumbass for going in there in the first place. If it's someone that is just having a bad game, you'll know...because they usually say "guys, I'm sorry that I'm playing for shit, I don't know what my deal is". Generally, people are forgiving of that when they know you are doing your job and just getting focused or whatever.
So just remember - if you are believing that they are elitest jackoffs, you should first analyze whether you happen to be good at the game or not. It's a hostile community, but it's because of the level of competitive nature that the game has.
I'm talking about "normal" games. I've never even tried a ranked game. It still doesn't stop the assholes from coming out. Clearly someone new to the game shouldn't be jumping into a ranked match.
Also, "if you believe they are elitist jackoffs, you should first analyze whether you are good at the game" (paraphrased) is one of the more unintentionally funny things I've read in a while, and pretty much sums up the mentality these people use to validate being exclusive pricks to other players.
And being a hostile prick because of competitiveness doesn't make such behaviour acceptable. At all. Pretty much sums up why the LoL community sucks. Filled with fiercely competitive children, who have no concept of human decency, or social protocol.
Wait a minute. You expect human decency and social protocol from the internet? You should find the other 80% of the internet before expecting that.
I can say this: most of the "hostile prick" types...aren't actually hostile pricks. Generally, they get pissed off because they've played so many games with so many baddies that it starts becoming a bit intolerable to deal with. We'll walk away from the computer for a bit, cool off, come back...and usually, it is the same result again. It's the equivalent of beating your head against a brick wall: eventually, you are going to start bleeding and get angry about it. Sure, we do it to ourselves...but they do it to us just as much.
The only times that I personally get angry in the ways you are describing is when someone is being a troll, being an ignorant fuck that is throwing the game on purpose, someone is feeding, or someone that is being given advice or asked to help someone and they refuse to do so because they have a lone wolf attitude. Otherwise, it's easily tolerable stuff to deal with.
Also, yes, you find the comment "if you believe they are elitest jackoffs, you should first analyze whether you are good at the game" unintentionally funny, but it doesn't mean it isn't intentionally true. If I'm bad at Call of Duty (which I'm not, but for the sake of the argument, we'll say I am), then it means I should probably find something else. I don't see how anyone can get enjoyment out of not being good at something, especially in terms of competitive multiplayer games. Now, mind you, I'm on the train of people that believe that Riot has not done nearly enough to explain the depth of their games and instead rely on outside sources such as CLG, Solomid, and many others to fill in the rather wide gaps that their Proving Grounds tutorial offers at the beginning of the game. At the same time, it's kind of ridiculous to expect that much out of the company when they have a ton of other stuff to do: champion balancing, map balancing, adding features and champs, improving features that already exist, etc.
However, getting into what you pointed out, these are in normal matches. There is no reason for the assholish levels of trolling in there beyond just being trolls. That is for sure. Unfortunately, Gabriel's Internet Dickward Theory applies directly to it: keyboard + anonymity = dickwad. In ranked, it's a vastly different story. People in there are vicious for a reason: to either get people to listen to someone who DOES know what they are doing...or to get them out of ranked completely. It seems like a brutal and crappy way of handling it, but people typically don't listen otherwise.
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