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Senior Riot devs say the League of Legends playerbase is getting older, with fewer newbies jumping in: 'Candidly, it's not the same situation it was 10 years ago' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The issue is that the design of the MOBA genre inherently encourages players to be toxic

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Definitely. It was also massively exacerbated by the fact that there was no voice chat, surrender mechanics were extremely frustrating, there was essentially no punishment for inting, etc.

You're not wrong that there is some baseline level of toxicity due to the genre, but I feel it was made infinitely worse by Riot's failures in implementation.

For instance, the ability to forfeit a match immediately when one of your teammates had never connected. They literally wouldn't even let you start a vote to forfeit until 15 minutes into the game, even if your whole team was afk. Even the other team was bored, but you all just had to go through the motions for 15-20+ minutes because of Riot's infinite wisdom. And if you went AFK in that match, you got automatically flagged and put in leaver queue. Fuck sake I'm getting triggered all over again just explaining it.