Quote (lovestory @ Jul 7 2013 12:53pm)
Have you not been to battle.net ? Holy shit, the SC2 community is filled with bronze balance whining morons who have never been to blame for a single loss...oh shit that sounds like jsp too
Every game community has morons but that doesn't mean it's the entire community. I browse the GD of LoL forums sometimes, it's got a lot of funny posters and the LoL reddit is actually somewhat mature as well. I have to assume you're basing your opinions of the community off of the people in game. If that's the case, I do agree that people in game are pretty toxic but it's like that with any team game.
No one ever takes responsibility for their mistakes and it's always someone else's fault. It's hella annoying, I know. But, to an extent, it's the same exact thing in SC2. How many low level games have you been in when someone rages at the end "fucking terran, stupid race u suck" ? I would actually argue that since I've gotten higher MMR in LoL, the toxic players have all but nearly disappeared. Almost every game I play now is with good players who are having a good time, in SC2 even at the top of GM you have to deal with people flaming at the end of 60% of your games.
But when you make a claim of "LoL is a vastly inferior game" and people ask you why...you can't respond with "because of the people who play it". You said the game itself is inferior, arguing about who plays it is irrelevant. You could say "the game is good, I just don't enjoy it because of those who play it", "the game is trash and those who play it make it worse", or "the game is trash but I enjoy the community". They are separate, you can't say the game is bad BECAUSE the community is bad.
I am only considering in-game communities, not the on-line extras that have sprung up. In terms of that, LoL has a remarkably dedicated fanbase that contributes well in many of Riot's contests--there have been some pretty cool songs/drawings/etc that have come from League's extraneous contests.
I have made so many posts in regards to why LoL is inferior that it's simply not worth repeating the myriad issues LoL has. Suffice to say that when the vast majority of people playing a game are so garbage that you can't play two games without having at least one player outrageously flaming another, the game is trash. Until someone can come up with a response to this I feel that I've proven the point.
While there is rage in SC2, it is nowhere near on the same scale as League. While playing SC2, I can trust that if I play 10 games, I will have one, maybe two games in which a single person types a maximum of five angry sentences. If I play two games of League, I can almost guarantee that I will experience 10x the rage comments.
To put it in perspective, IdrA is basically where the buck stops in terms of SC2 rage (or was, whatever). You can expect to find a player as mad or madder than IdrA every day you play League.
Yes, some of it has to do with the fact that League is a team game. This is part of the game design and cannot simply be discarded off-hand as "yeah this is how team games are". This is not how team games have to be. While there are many people who rage in DotA 2 games, there are far fewer people who rage in DotA 2 games. Same thing with another popular team game, World of Tanks. Entirely reliant on teammates to win that game, and yet the amount of rage you experience in standard battles is almost nil.