I actually went to Riot's panel at PAX East this year re: "toxic behaviors & LoL," and while it was pretty basic stuff, the fact that they're putting a concentrated effort towards fixing it is pretty commendable.I'll give Riot credit for trying to stop the massive bad manners issues. but They can only do so much.Same can be said about basically all MOBAs, League of Legends is the only one I know of that actively tries to do anything about its shitty community, though, so you have to give them that. When I played original DoTA the community was horrendous too, much worse than LoL. HeroesGame wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt the massive amount of Bad manners and the fact so many dont work as a team in a TEAM BASED game.
of Newerth wasn't much better after the beta was over either.
I don't really play online games anymore, but I played a lot of League when I WAS still playing them. Overall I can't complain, it's the exact experience I expected to get when I started.
Although, funny story, the first person in their 30 minute (!) Q&A was some middle-aged parent asking why there was no "report & quit" function, and despite the panel members politely trying to explain that MOBAs are a team game, thus quitting is not solving the problem, the parent continued to badger them about the pains of having to suffer through a game with said "
toxic behavior," whereafter he basically got pulled from the mic, hook-around-neck style.
I'm not sure there's a way to fix it. Anonymity+lack of real consequence=douchebaggery.