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Drug ?? Senior Member
17-11-2012

Hey guys,

I'm doing this post for a very simple reason:

I tend to be toxic.


I got banned a few days ago for 14 days and I probably deserved it. There are no excuses for such behaviour, no matter how hard someone flames, how hard someone doesn't play with the same ambition as you do, THERE'S NO ESCUSE to express your rage via chat.

I'm here to say I'm sorry, really sorry and ashamed of my behaviour, to all of you I might have abused.

Why am I here writing this ?
Well, 2 days before i get banned I was on college in a computer room watching some random stream, and suddenly a guy (that looked a bit strange) came to me and said:

-HI! Do you play that ??
-Yes, I do, do you ?
As he replies: Me too, sadly i have no one to play with, all my friends have more experience then me so they dont play with me that often, I'm level 30 already, but I have no experience on Ranked Queue's.

He seemed so sad saying that, that i told him to add me, and we could play together (because i wasn't going to reach my soloQ achievements for the season 2, so why not, my account had been hacked before the summer, and then i just snowballed and became really bad , even winning some lan events and being ranked on a top 20 ladder on the old 3v3 map.)

So we agreed to play that day at night, and when i arrive home he already had sent me the friend request, and we started playing.
The first game all went smooth, and he seemed really happy to have is first ranked game as a Win. So I said him we could go for one more.
Since he was support on last game and no one wanted to play support, i said him on ts:
-Hey man, pick a ad carry if you wish, ill support you on botlane !

Sadly, that game was one of those games that i just didn't explode for a miracle.
Solotop flaming hard, feeding even harder, going afk...
Midlane was a Jayce ... :S

That game ended very quickly, even that I was trying to hide it, I was mad to be supporting such a team, so I said to my "friend" :
-Hey man don't worry, games like this happen, you only have to keep playing until you have a better luck, don't loose your hope.

And here, was one of the times i felt worst in all of my life, as he said me this in a very sad, and almost crying voice:

-Hey Drug, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I did my best, and it wasn't enough, I hope to have more chances to play with you more times, just give me time to practice more, and I promiss I'll be better.

(And at this moment my heart really stopped. I understood that everytime I raged, everytime I flammed a unskilled player, I never assumed that the player was doing his best to win, but it simply wasn't enough, and I just couldn't see it...)

So I've said him: - Look, I just met you today, but we will play as many times you want, don't worry about being good or bad, worry on having fun and try to add something to your team, helping them to win.

And we said goodbye and I went offline.

In the next day when I woke up I had some pm's on skype from his account, It was their parent's and it said:
-"Please keep this in secret:
We are XXXXXXX parent's, and last night we heard you saying him to don't worry about the game (and they resumed what I've said to him) and we want to thank you. Our son, has no friends at college, he suffers from a rare illness (not stating name for privacy reasons) and sadly he isn't as normal as the other people of his age are, thank you for being such a good friend to him."

(And that made me feel better then winning 50 ranked games in a row.)

From now on, this is my goal on League, It's not having a high rating, not having a perfect team, because that will never happen, from now on, my goal is to be helpfull to everyone, to be friendly and to try to support them instead of saying: "nice feed", because it's not right, I was wrong...

Thank you for spending your time reading my story, I hope you can understand my point of view and forgive me for my previous behaviour.

Trully sorry,

Drug.



EDIT 1: WOW ! 20K views ! I hope that my experience gave you something usefull to use in the future, thanks alot for taking your time, you guys are #1 !

EDIT 2: WOW !! 120K ??? All I wanted was to share this, but i never thought this was possible !

EDIT 3: 150K VIEWS! If i could reach the heart of half of the viewers, It's like as good as knowing PumpkinHead Fiddlesticks will be again for sale !

EDIT 4: 175K VIEWS! Season 2 End FAQ post had less views, thank's all of you that showed your interest and shared you expression !

EDIT 5: Special thanks to SK Ocelote for sharing this post on his facebook page !

EDIT 6: 900 UPVOTES, Say Whaaaat ?! :O

EDIT 7: 200K Views and over 1k UPVOTES, I hope I could get my message to you guys, Happy gaming !

 
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Better Nerf N1em ?? Junior Member
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17-11-2012

what i can say?
N1 dude

+1+1+1+1++1+1+1+1+1+

 
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bwahahahahahaha ?? Member
17-11-2012

bull****

 
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Invi Ary Alexis ?? Member
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17-11-2012

If it's true, you have my respect.
- Feels like you're somewhat scared of a permaban soon or later, however.

 
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Algorythmos ?? Junior Member
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17-11-2012

Quote:
Originally Posted by Drug View Post
I never assumed that the player was doing his best to win, but it simply wasn't enough, and I just couldn't see it.
So you are saying you were flaming every unskilled player in the past and never assumed they were doing there best!What did you thought?All the unskilled players are trolling/messing around?
better late than never
Anyway, i wish you all the best!

 
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DeathAspire ?? Junior Member
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17-11-2012

nice story, and if its true, respect for you

but here is my vision..

people that know they're bad, should not play ranked... play normal (draft pick) or something..
but people in ranked, want to get a higher Elo, and as you probably know, it can be realy frustrating when people are actualy realy bad..

(ofcourse it remains a teamgame, but 1 feeder can ruin a entire game)

just my 2 cents ofcourse

 
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Talidel ?? Senior Member
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17-11-2012

Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathAspire View Post
nice story, and if its true, respect for you

but here is my vision..

people that know they're bad, should not play ranked... play normal (draft pick) or something..
but people in ranked, want to get a higher Elo, and as you probably know, it can be realy frustrating when people are actualy realy bad..

(ofcourse it remains a teamgame, but 1 feeder can ruin a entire game)

just my 2 cents ofcourse
There is a lower ELO bracket for the bad players everyone else, bad games happen.

Your ELO ultimately depends on you. A few games of trolls and flamers doesn't matter in the long run.

 
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Sadorius ?? Senior Member
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17-11-2012

Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathAspire View Post
nice story, and if its true, respect for you

but here is my vision..

people that know they're bad, should not play ranked... play normal (draft pick) or something..
but people in ranked, want to get a higher Elo, and as you probably know, it can be realy frustrating when people are actualy realy bad..

(ofcourse it remains a teamgame, but 1 feeder can ruin a entire game)

just my 2 cents ofcourse
I'm pretty sure League of Legends is a free to play game for everyone, not just a free to play game for good players.

Secondly, the best and only way to learn the game is to play. The more you play, the better you get. You get more insight, more champion knowledge, more map awareness, you're better aware of what needs to be done in each role, or during team fights, and so on. Most players are not bad as such, they either have an opponent that is better, or lack experience in one of the previous areas.

Ranked is all ready limited, as there's a level requirement before you can play ranked. Now, I agree that it wouldn't be a bad thing to force people to have a certain amount of games / wins before they can play ranked, to allow them to better understand the game and how everything works (after all, up till level 30 most games don't really follow the meta, don't take warding too serious etc). Other than that though, the game is for everyone. There's elo to match people with similar skill. And what you don't see is that sometimes people play their best, but the opponent is just better. Or sometimes the opponent gets an early gank and snowballs because of that. And so on. You can always try and see if you can help them to be better, for example by ganking for them yourself.

 
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Karlosas ?? Member
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17-11-2012

It will always get only worse before it gets better,it is time for this community to man up start going different direction and as i see it it had begun eh good luck to us all and n1 Drug even if its not true most of us has something to learn from this post

 
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CrtclDmg ?? Senior Member
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17-11-2012

Faith in humanity restored

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