LoL: What do you think of “the Code?”
A few weeks back, Riot released The Summoner’s Code, a set of guidelines aimed at improving the community around the League. Now that it’s been a few weeks, though, I wonder how “the Code” is panning out.
I’ve only played DotA and LoL as far as this particular genre goes, but I’ve spent countless hours on a slew of other games, none of which had a code. You know what all of them had? Assholes. Lots of them. And lots of forum posts about the assholes. And lots of forum posts asking people not to be assholes. None of it changed people, though.
I hate to sound like a cynic, but the reality of competitive environments, even casual ones like most LoL players experience, is that people don’t behave rationally when they lose. They lash out. They yell at teammates and opponents, friends and enemies. Some lash out more than others. Unfortunately, those are also the people that don’t care about the code. They don’t care about the community.
The good news is that there are loads of people playing this game who do care, about both the game and the community, and those people are a lot of fun to play with. It’s not that these people live up to the code – I know I don’t – but that they try to be generally good to the people they play with. To me, the code is a ridiculous standard, a plaque on the wall Riot can point to when someone is being a jerk. Worse, it takes credit away from people who were already a positive force in the community and gives it up to some stupid code that was likely the product of a two-hour lunch meeting.
Anyone think the code is doing good for the community?
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Tags: attitude, behavior, code, in-game behavior, summoner's code, the code
I don’t believe for more than 30 seconds that the code is actually benefiting the community. I have seen on all too many occasions, I have tried to help people or too show them some simple rational upon something(albeit, a little rude, but who isn’t at times.), and it end in them either a) telling me off or b) calling me a baddie. Simple things about this game, people take to heart, far too much. It comes with the primary age base this genre falls under though, and the demographic. The players I see usually, are people that have a shit load of free time, usually meaning the younger player base, or the high school dropout type, with the few more adult like players. It comes down to the people you play with really, but whilst I think there are certain does and dont’s that everyone should already know to follow, it seems that often times some lack the common niceties that you get from what seems to be life experience at it’s finest.
They prob get so many emails and dont even read them bc theres no proof to see if someones being a asshole even pics can be photoshopped. Until they put a in game thing in nothing will be done
Honestly I read it once then promptly forgot what it says. Couldn’t tell you. I try to be a nice guy when I play (honestly… I don’t think I’ve called anyone a name…yet
), but I don’t expect the others to do that… usually the opposite.
I’ve seen some nice people who enforced the code for a week. Now it seems people have totally for got about it. I don’t really care if they enforce it or not. I just ignore all the rude people. Sometimes I’ll complement someone if they get a double kill or if we make a good push, but at the same time I don’t think it’s necessary to say “gj” after every single kill, like some people do.
The code is an epic waste of time for whoever authored it.
I glanced at it and chuckled. For the most part I’ve had decent teammates/opponents, but about every 4th game or so you get some asshole who claims he’s losing because his team is a bunch of noobs. It’s a sad fact of online gaming which I’ve come to accept after 10 years (frankly, LoL is compares favorably with almost every other game I’ve played in this regard).