League of Legends outlines new measures to improve player behavior

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League of Leag🍌ues developer Riot Games has opened up about changes it has planned to improve pl🌃ayer behavior in-game.

Product lead for behavioral systems Hana "TimTamMonster" Dinh poste🔯d a candid to LoL's official website, committing to "shifting [Riot's] approach" to toxic player behaviors "to directly impact your experience and strengthen our community".

"I know many of you have been disappointed in the lack of progress made in Behavioral Systems over th𒐪e last few years. You've told us again and again that this space is important.🔯 And I'm with you. That's why I'm here to share some updates kicking off Riot's new approach to this space in 2022," they wrote.

After revealing that changes thus far have chiefly been "behind the scenes" upgrades, Dinh acknowledged that Riot's "🅺detection and punishment systems to improve your experience [...] isn’t making enough of an impact". 

"The data shows that only 5% of players are consistently disruptive," Dinh explained. "These are players we definitely should be punishing, and we will always continue improving our systems for that. But the other 9🎐5% are regular players who get tilted every once in a while, and these players make up 86% of our reports. In other words, almost all reports are on the average player who usually behaves well."

After also confirming that Champ Select Reports is still problematic - "although we have been monitoring these reports, we didn’t add punishments for them accordingly as promised" - the update then turned to verbal abuse, someth♊ing Dinh says affects "the majority of players". Consequently, the team will be upgrading "to more advanced models to increase Verbal Abuse detections" after which i🌸t "expects to see improvements in this area by up to 10x". 

To help improve player behavior, Dinh also revealed that although Riot had "failed to update" Honor 2.0 and "fallen short of ꧋[player] expectations", there will be an exclusive skin for players that reach "Honor 5" as part of the End of Seasons rewards to reinfo🥂rce positive play.

Riot isn't the only publisher trying to control toxic behavior in its player base. Over 350,000 Call of Duty accounts have been banned in the last year for racist names or toxic behavior, whilst 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Call of Duty: Warzone co-developer Raven Software revealed last summer that over 500,000 cheaters have been banned from the battle royale's servers.

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