Two League of Legends "Pros" Banned for Being Horrible

[Susan Arendt]

Sooooo slow news day huh?

I mean "Woohoo, two jerks got banned. Yay." and all that jazz but still, this isn't exactly breaking news now is it?

The banning of professional - and therefore visible and important - players for bad conduct is actually quite important for a number of reasons. LoL has a huge reputation for being chock full of horrible people and harassment, and the ban shows that LoL community itself is pretty damn sick of jerk behavior. Also, punishing the best of the best sends a very specific message. Whether it's one that will ultimately be imitated by other games remains to be seen, of course, but this is exactly the kind of thing a lot of the gaming community has been waiting for. Trash talk is part of the competitive nature of gaming, but there is pretty clearly a line between what is and is not acceptable, and that line is being made more clear every day.

So, no, not a slow news day.

 

[dangoball]

Sooooo slow news day huh?

I mean "Woohoo, two jerks got banned. Yay." and all that jazz but still, this isn't exactly breaking news now is it?

Actually, I appreciate the occasional heads-up that MMO communities are trying to manage the worst behavior within their own ranks.

LoL is an MMO now? Now that certainly is breaking news.

Lets see: you can't play LoL off-line, so it definitely is Online (check), every match is with several other players, from two in co-op Twisted Treeline to nine in pvp Classic or Dominion, so there goes Multiplayer (check) and there is a ton of people (32 million active players monthly) playing world wide, which I dare suggest warrants the label of Massive (check), so there you go - MMO for you.

As for the article? Well, guess they deserved that, didn't they. Not much else to say, really.

 

[Atmos Duality]

And they should be treated as such. I know you already put the *pro-sports* analogy thingy but I see it more as a professional thing, its his job afterall. If you harass co-workers/customers you get in trouble, simple as.

Yeah. There's not really any other comments I can make.
They acted like assholes, and it eventually got them banned.

I guess I could state that their average report-% being much higher than average is kind of anomalous, and maybe a sign of some prior favoritism on Riot's part, but now they're banned so...I dunno.

 

[kyogen]

Sooooo slow news day huh?

I mean "Woohoo, two jerks got banned. Yay." and all that jazz but still, this isn't exactly breaking news now is it?

Actually, I appreciate the occasional heads-up that MMO communities are trying to manage the worst behavior within their own ranks.

LoL is an MMO now? Now that certainly is breaking news.

My bad. Typing too quickly. I assume you prefer the term MOBA?

 

[kyogen]

Sooooo slow news day huh?

I mean "Woohoo, two jerks got banned. Yay." and all that jazz but still, this isn't exactly breaking news now is it?

Actually, I appreciate the occasional heads-up that MMO communities are trying to manage the worst behavior within their own ranks.

LoL is an MMO now? Now that certainly is breaking news.

My bad. Typing too quickly. I assume you prefer the term MOBA?

Yeah, and I get the point lol, a few other folks decided to snap at me for it.

Well, thanks for the correction in any case. I definitely prefer fixing mistakes like that.

 

[Ickorus]

Good to see, so many developers bend over backwards for their "pro" players and wouldn't dare even think about banning them, Riot doing this means that the rest of the "pros" might have to modulate their behavior a bit which may cause a trickle-down effect on the rest of the community.

e-fame should be no barrier to banishment!

 

[dangoball]

Sooooo slow news day huh?

I mean "Woohoo, two jerks got banned. Yay." and all that jazz but still, this isn't exactly breaking news now is it?

Actually, I appreciate the occasional heads-up that MMO communities are trying to manage the worst behavior within their own ranks.

LoL is an MMO now? Now that certainly is breaking news.

Lets see: you can't play LoL off-line, so it definitely is Online (check), every match is with several other players, from two in co-op Twisted Treeline to nine in pvp Classic or Dominion, so there goes Multiplayer (check) and there is a ton of people (32 million active players monthly) playing world wide, which I dare suggest warrants the label of Massive (check), so there you go - MMO for you.

As for the article? Well, guess they deserved that, didn't they. Not much else to say, really.

It's 6 to 10 players on a map. That's not massive. The term "Massively" Applies to a number of players playing simultaneously within the same server. Saying LoL is an MMO is like saying CoD3 is an MMO Or that the mass effect multiplayer is an MMO. They're not.

And now we can get into how many concurrent games are being played on one LoL server and fine nuances of the "Massive" part of MMO, however, I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough in the field to try and persuade you about my truth, so lets agree that some consensus most likely exist and our discussion of it would be rather fruitless.

Let us vote pancakes instead, as captcha suggests!

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Yeah, and I get the point lol, a few other folks decided to snap at me for it.

Wait, since when is there more of me? Or has something like this happened before? I just feel like I missed something.

Anyway the fact that kyogen corrected himself makes the continuation of potential disagreement even more pointless, so all is good

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I don't play LoL or DOTA2 for many reasons, the rampant amount of jerkoffs being chief among them. I used to play semi-competitive chess when I was younger, and no matter how good or bad the players did (myself included) the matches almost always ended with a handshake and a polite "good game" variant. Very few of the players would have superior attitudes, which leads me to my ultimate point:
Being a professional also means one must have a professional attitude. Class goes a long way in establishing character.

 

[Tanakh]

The need to purchase (and therefore less smurfing trolls) is the main reason DOTA is considered to have a marginally better community than LoL. There are so many smurf trolls at low levels that the Riot staff has openly told new players to play against bots until Level 15 to avoid them.

Just as a clarification, DotA (Warcraft III DotA) had a community leaps and bounds ahead of LoL because most of the players were inside regulated Leagues or servers that enforced a minimum of manners and avobe all not ruining the game for the others; those were the golden days to be a DotA noob but the barrier of entry was higher (some of them charged money for example). DotA 2 has a marginally better community also, but unless you are within a clan or some other group the average palyer is much worse than what WCIII DotA had two years ago.

 

[Gothproxy]

I'm actually glad that this happened. Slow news day or no, in some peoples' eyes, this is news worthy in the video game community. I enjoy seeing the mighty fall when it's their (bad) actions that made them fall. This confirms why I avoid online multi-play with video games these days. Too many D-bags that spoil the experience overall. This is not meant to say that most online multiplayers are crappy people, it just happens to be that the crappy people are the ones with the biggest mouths.