League Of Legends Research Paper

“Run it down mid.” It probably sounds like complete nonsense to an outsider, but it makes complete sense to the true League of Legends player. The discourse community of League of Legends is defined to be an exhilarating experience with a structure of rules implemented to make entertainment polite yet fresh. The recent interview of Runescape 2007 along with observations of the discourse community prove to follow Swales’ six characteristics. Whether the League of Legends is toxic or alluring, it will prove to be an interesting discourse community. Elo; the goal of the League of Legends community is to gain Elo (ranking points). To be up at the top of the rankings with the best; that is the ultimate, goal of League of Legends. The RTS (Real time strategy) game …show more content…
Although much of people are in bronze, because there are less people in each Elo, the flaming percentage remains the same. The League of Legends community includes a lot of toxicity that is meant to be prohibited, but there is a way to macro manage the amount of hatred in the game. Riot (the so-called founders of League of Legends) have a feedback option at the end of each game, allowing players to report one another for toxicity of lack of communication, when appropriate of course. Riot monitors in game chat to retain the proof required to ban members for a certain amount of time or even indefinitely. Not all chat is monitored though. Direct chat messages are not monitored to allow private communication between members that may contain sensitive information. Although the discourse community has a common goal, they are not restricted to developing goals of their own. For an example, a bronze player may strive to beat a silver player once rather than gaining enough Elo to surpass the silver player. At this point, it might start to dawn upon you; “What is this Elo stuff and bronze/silver nonsense?” That is part of the League of Legends lexis.