The Like/Hate Thread

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No. Usually Riot will make no comment at all about a competing company. When they do it's always been very respectfully. Never done that kind of shit.

This. I think they've even gone as far as to make comments like Notch (of Minecraft) does, in that they enjoy playing competing games.

The first time I ever looked at the HoN forums, some staffer was telling a member "stfu faggot, ur just mad u got pwned" type stuff. I don't remember the exact wording, but I do remember a "faggot" name drop and something about someone being butthurt and it wasn't that a champ was overpowered but that they were just bad. There are respectful ways to say this, so I'm not at all condoning bitching about champs (nor the opening post of this thread, because supposedly the guy who posted it is a major troll that frequently trashes S2 on a blog or something), but that doesn't excuse it.

This isn't just a staffer in the sense of "forum staff" saying this. Moderators and such on their boards (like the one that does disagree) aren't on the payroll. This is an actual employee spouting this shit, and supposedly another employee chimes in later in the thread to back him up and say he wasn't out of line at all. I was not at all surprised at the numerous "lol noob got pwned gg" responses slapping the employee on the back, but I was very surprised at the number of their customers that actually posted a negative reaction, like "what. the. fucking. hell? This is the single most out of line post I have EVER seen from a company to its customer" stuff. I agree. Someone even showed a screenshot where they got banned for making a similar comment and their ban reason was "stay classy" with a lifetime ban.

LoL has had that happen - ByronicHero (or a similar name) got nailed for flaming people in game while playing, calling them racist slurs and faggot and such, even telling them straight up that he was an employee and threatened to ban them when they mentioned reporting him for verbal abuse. Difference is, this guy got fired. I'm not sure it will happen with S2. I mean, I hope it does, any other company would, but this is not the first time I've seen their staff act just like your average "l2p" kid. Maliken (president of S2) has allegedly gotten openly criticized in the past for being a rager in games and actually banning people from the game for winning, as well as it being allegedly well known that he (in the earlier days of HoN getting started) would frequently be a heavy racist and rager, stuff like "our game is like LoL, but with less niggers". I can't really say how much of that is truth, since its just things posted on reddit discussions and such about it, but it would not surprise me in the least given the things I HAVE seen.