Riot Games strengthened its rules to combat and punish players who exhibit offensive behavior in streams and game sessions.

Riot Games added some new clauses to its Terms of Service that could put some players in hot water for unbecoming behavior that occurs “across the various places that touch their gaming experience.” Players can face penalties, suspensions and even “Riot-wide bans” if they are caught violating these new rules.

  • sculd@beehaw.org
    26·
    23 days ago

    This is actually good. Too many toxic streamers ruining the game for everyone else. Its time to clean up.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      9·
      22 days ago

      Lol league was extremely toxic in 2010 when streaming wasn’t a thing. I got sucked in and became toxic in 2011-2012 before I quit altogether. Best decision I ever made regarding video games.

      It is the player base, not the streamers, that ruin the game.

      But maybe this will help a little bit.

    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      23 days ago

      I am confused about this. Can’t you just not watch their stream? How does it ruin the game for others?

      • averyminya@beehaw.org
        16·
        23 days ago

        Toxic behavior being normalized leads to other people acting similarly.

        I mean, “haha screaming so funny, I do same thing cause I want to be funny”

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        21 days ago

        The gist is… streamers are gamer role models. The streamer itself is a drop in the bucket… but either they encourage people that like their behavior to play the game, or they encourage people who play the game to act like them.

        I used to play town of salem, the social deduction game… the community was relatively small, but when a mainstream youtube channel like pewdiepie or someoen played the game there’d be a collective groan from the community. As it would always follow up with a huge spike if players who start up the game with zero interest in learning how to play (because the youtuber also didn’t learn how to play)… now in those cases that generally was only a week or 2 of annoyance as the obnoxious players either moved on to the next thing, or started actually trying to learn the game instead of just trolling everyone.